Blackbird Flying Taxi, AI Wind Turbines, AI 3D Scenes w/ Ralph Bond

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Show Notes 13 December 2024




Story 1: Meet 'Blackbird': A flying taxi that spins and moves in any direction thanks to new propulsion system -- My add -- inspired by the kind of propulsion widely used on tugs and ferries


Source: LiveScience.com Story by Rory Bathgate


Link: https://www.livescience.com/technology/electric-vehicles/meet-blackbird-a-flying-taxi-that-spins-and-moves-in-any-direction-thanks-to-new-propulsion-system


See video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqDNSV7kqnk


See also: https://www.cyclotech.at/


See also: https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/news/flying-taxi-blackbird-uses-boat-inspired-propulsion-system/ar-AA1v8HqI


Story 2: Researchers present the first fully AI-designed wind turbine — it’s 7x more efficient in cities


Source: ZME Science via MSN Story by Mihai Andrei


Link: https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/researchers-present-the-first-fully-ai-designed-wind-turbine-it-s-7x-more-efficient-in-cities/ar-AA1vc9xl


See also: https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/2024/the-birmingham-blade-the-worlds-first-geographically-tailored-urban-wind-turbine-designed-by-ai


Story 3: World Labs’ AI can generate interactive 3D scenes from a single photo


Source: TechCrunch Story by Kyle Wiggers


Link: https://techcrunch.com/2024/12/02/world-labs-ai-can-generate-interactive-3d-scenes-from-a-single-photo/


See also: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/something-previously-impossible-new-ai-makes-3d-worlds-out-of-a-single-image/ar-AA1v9jQL


See also: https://www.worldlabs.ai/about


See video demo here: https://www.worldlabs.ai/blog


Story 4: 3D-printed hydrogel enables continuous drug delivery via contact lens


Source: MedicalXpress.com Story from University of Waterloo


Link: https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-11-3d-hydrogel-enables-drug-delivery.html


See also: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsabm.4c00901



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