Exploding Bacteria

Scientists working in the field of synthetic biology have thought up a new way to cure diseases… except by “thought up” I mean they’ve been watching Michael Bay’s Transformers movies and seeing how everything explodes.
The scientists have created an Escherichia coli cell which – upon contact with certain pathogens – literally explodes, killing both the pathogen and itself.

Google Glass

Augmented Reality has already gotten into our life in the forms of simulated experiment and education app, but Google is taking it several steps higher with Google Glass. Theoretically, with Google Glass, you are able to view social media feeds, text, Google Maps, as well as navigate with GPS and take photos. You will also get the latest updates while you are on the ground.

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It’s truly what we called vision, and it’s absolutely possible given the fact that the Google’s co-founder, Sergey Brin has demo’ed the glass with skydivers and creatives. Currently the device is only available to some developers with the price tag of $1500, but expect other tech companies trying it out and building an affordable consumer version.

3D Printer

Just as the term suggests, 3D printing is the technology that could forge your digital design into a solid real-life product. It’s nothing new for the advanced mechanical industry, but a personal 3D printer is definitely a revolutionary idea.

Everybody can create their own physical product based on their custom design, and no approval needed from any giant manufacturer! Even the James Bond’s Aston Martin which was crashed in the movie was a 3D printed product!

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Form 1 is one such personal 3D printer which can be yours at just $2799. It may sound like a high price but to have the luxury of getting producing your own prototypes, that’s a reaonable price.

Imagine a future where every individual professional has the capability to mass produce their own creative physical products without limitation. This is the future where personal productivity and creativity are maximized.

WebGL

WebGL stands for Web-based Graphics Library, and is managed by the non-profit Khronos Group. It's used in conjunction with the HTML5 <canvas> element to produce 3D graphics.

WebGL is hard to learn, because it's very low-level – it runs on Graphics Processing Units – and because it's actually a JavaScript port of OpenGL, a long-established set of APIs that game developers use. Its primary target audience is existing games developers, who've been using OpenGL for ages, so they can write games for the web platform.

Nevertheless, there are resources to help you learn WebGL – and it's not just for games; we've seen fancy graphics, visualisatons and music videos made with it. Ones I can personally recommend are:

• Introduction to WebGL and a look at the libraries available, by Luz Caballero.
• Raw WebGL 101 – for those who think using a library is an admission of failure.
• Learning WebGL – a very good tutorial site.
• WebGL 101 – an instructional video by Erik Möller (2.5 hours).
• See Emberwind, a game ported to webGL by Erik Möller. You can fork it on Github, or just see the code.

WebGL is present in all desktop browsers (released or dev channel) except for IE10 (Microsoft has said it won't support it). On mobile, it's released in Opera Mobile 12 final on Android, Blackberry Playbook 2.0, Nokia N900, Sony Ericsson Xperia Android phones and in development builds of Firefox Mobile.