Video Friday: DIYSECT — DIY Biology and Bioart
The excellent DIYSECT web-series covers the DIY biohacking scene. Watch the first four parts online today.
Category: DIY
DIY Biology and the Rise of Citizen Biotech Economies
1. INTRODUCTION Most articles on garage biology and do-it-yourself (DIY) biology – whether academic papers or media reports – highlight its somewhat “immaterial” cultures or ideologies. The issues usually raised include: the ways in which do-it-yourself biology potentially democratizes science...
Hacking the body: the scientific counter-culture of the DIYbio movement
Science and biology are slowly, but smoothly, being co-opted by a DIY approach that’s looking an awful lot like the start of the tech start-up boom.
Hear Electromagnetic Fields and “Delicate Sounds” Beyond Human Hearing With These Microphones
These microphones allow recording EM fields instead of conventional sound and “delicate sounds” at the edge of human perception.
SynBioLGDB: a resource for experimentally validated logic gates in synthetic biology
Synthetic biologists have developed DNA/molecular modules that perform genetic logic operations in living cells to track key moments in a cell’s life or change the fate of a cell. SynBioLGDB (http://bioinformatics.ac.cn/synbiolgdb/) aims to provide the synthetic biology community with a useful resource for efficient browsing and visualization of genetic logic gates.
Busking in Hyperspace: Creating a mask for self-o-nautics
Onyx Ashanti designs a new mask for self-o-nautics.
Grow Your Own Ginseng for Longevity
Ginseng is the oldest traditional longevity tonic, with a history going back 4,000 years
Growing Robot Minds
Polymorphic entities have the same interfaces. Typically one ends up with a family of types of objects (e.g. classes). At any given time, if you are given an object of a family, you can interface to it the same way.
Interesting Technology for Transhumanists at CES
Some quick hits from CES 2015 that may be of interest to h+ Magazine readers and transhumanists.
MozVR: Virtual Reality on the Web
In this brownbag, the developers share new builds, new demos, and new tools, and also provide a look at the future.