Three ideas from IdeaSpies were presented by Diana Oh at the Ashurst April 2018 Boardroom Lunch. The idea receiving the most votes from directors was vertical farming. This idea now goes to the final at the December Boardroom Lunch to select the top idea for the year. www.ideaspies.com/post/vertical-farming/.
Quin is a cheap, lightweight helmet with an integrated Bluetooth communications that doesn't have wires, velcro speakers, dials, knobs or an exposed microphone, yet also detects a crash and sends for help. Its technology runs off a lightweight Arch chip with upgradeable firmware via a charging plug at the back of the helmet. https://motorbikewriter.com/quin-helmets-help-crash/
Inventor Tim Jenison attempted to solve one of the greatest mysteries in all art: How did 17th century Dutch Master Johannes Vermeer (Girl with a Pearl Earring) manage to paint so photo-realistically. So he painted his daughter Claire in the same pose with a comparator mirror and the similarity to the original is striking. Now on display at MONA in Hobart as Claire with a Pearl Earring along with an exhibit showing the technique he used.
This mummy is on display at MONA in Hobart. Alongside it, in a separate coffin, you can see progressive scans of the body. It's surprising that the skeleton has been preserved for so long. The scanning process can be applied to any volumetric dataset, not just mummies. For instance, you could now have yourself (alive or recently deceased beloved family or pets etc.) CAT-scanned and made into a hologram, a crystal paper-weight, or a life-size volumetric 3D prototype replicant. www.petermorse.com.au/2011/07/visualizing-pausiris-mona/
Bit.fall, by German artist Julius Popp, on display at MONA in Hobart, is a two-story pulsing waterfall of 128 computer-controlled nozzles that briefly drip a display of words streamed from real-time Google searches. Each word appears briefly and tumbles to the ground with a splash.
