Teh Jun Hao made this Stealth Submersible Aircraft Carrier out of Lego for his Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) application. If he doesn’t get into that university, I don’t know who will.
Apr 122011
Mar 292011
Startup Weekend arrives for the second time in Singapore! For 54 intense hours, participants brainstorm, plan, prototype, and pitch a startup concept.
If you’re technical, think of it as a weekend-long hackathon, sort of like a SuperHappyDevHouse, but held at Microsoft’s premises. If you’re non-technical, (what are you doing on this mailing list?) think of it as a chance to practice Powerpoint. Mentors, speakers, and judges include members of AWS’s tech team, serial Internet entrepreneurs, and venture capitalists.
Details: April 29 – May 1, 2011 at Microsoft @ 22 level @One Marina Boulevard (OMB)
Some FAQ:
Do I have to have an idea for a startup? No. There will be lots of people with ideas, so you can always join somebody else’s team.
What is the time commitment? Friday night from 6pm to 11pm; Saturday 10am to 10pm; Sunday 10am to 10pm.
What does it cost? If you register before April 6, $75 for geeks and $88 for muggles. After April 6 it’s $99. So register soon.
Who’s facilitating? Last year it was Marc Nager. This year, Joey Pomerenke.
What about food? Meng Weng will be cooking his famous sous vide: eggs for breakfast, roast beef and BBQ ribs for lunch, and oxtail for dinner. In case that turns out to be a total failure, Lau Pa Sat is just a short walk away.
For more information go to singapore.startupweekend.org.
Mar 232011
Bitcoin is an innovative and secured way of trading/using a peer-to-peer digital virtual currency. Peer-to-peer (P2P) means that there is no central authority to issue new money or keep track of transactions. Instead, these tasks are managed collectively by the nodes of the network. Advantages:
- Bitcoins can be sent easily through the Internet, without having to trust middlemen.
- Transactions are designed to be computationally prohibitive to reverse.
- Be safe from instability caused by fractional reserve banking and central banks. The limited inflation of the Bitcoin system’s money supply is distributed evenly (by CPU power) throughout the network, not monopolized by banks.
This is a very interesting concept that hopefully unify the world to a single currency, eliminating banks, crazy inflation rates and everything else that comes with our current day currency (pun intended). Furthermore, it is secured by using the widely standard use of public-private encryption key methodology.
Check it out at www.bitcoin.org.
Mar 232011
Philips presents its vision of shaving in the future… with a female robot. I wish that future is now, having a robot shave for you every morning just like in the video. Every day will be complete, don’t you think so?
Mar 162011
Woah. I would love to sit in his cab on long rides. He even has a printer in his cab! Simply amazing.
Mar 102011
This brings back fond memories when the bubble man was in town. Simply beautiful enormous magical soap bubbles at Stinson Beach with children chasing after them. Incidentally, the video was shot using a Canon 550D.
Mar 092011
Product Development Notebook made available the book “507 Mechanical Movements” as a free 10Mb PDF to anybody interested in the mechanical principles of levers, linkages, cams, gears etc. It was first published in 1906 and falls under public domain now.
It’s a great pictoral resource for beginners as to how things work mechanically. Useful for anybody working on any kinetic projects!
Mar 092011
This is really cool and fun device for your kids or even yourself to play with. It’s like lego extreme.
The cubelets standard kit comes with 20 magnetic blocks that can be snapped together to make an endless variety of robots with no programming and no wires. You can build robots that drive around on a tabletop, respond to light, sound, and temperature, and have surprisingly lifelike behavior. But instead of programming that behavior, you snap the cubelets together and watch the behavior emerge like with a flock of birds or a swarm of bees.
Each cubelet in the kit has different equipment on board and a different default behavior. There are Sense Blocks that act like our eyes and ears; they can sense light, temperature, and how far they are away from other objects. Just like with people, the senses are the inputs to the system.
For kids age 8 and above.
Source: http://www.modrobotics.com/cubelets
Jan 172011
Project HiJack is a hardware/software platform for creating cubic-inch sensor peripherals for the mobile phone. HiJack devices harvest power and use bandwidth from the mobile phone’s headset interface. The HiJack platform enables a new class of small and cheap phone-centric sensor peripherals that support plug-and-play operation. The source code and schematics are available on Google Code: http://code.google.com/p/hijack-main/. If you want to read more about how it works, “Hijacking Power and Bandwidth from the Mobile Phone’s Audio Interface” is a research paper about it. Check out the other videos below.
Jan 122011
KEIO-NUS CUTE Ctr & Mixed Reality Lab, IDM Institute, presents a Public Seminar by:
Topic: The Life and Legacy of Werner von Siemens – Innovator and Technology Entrepreneur
Speaker: Björn von Siemens, Entrepreneurship Researcher and Ph.D Fellow, University of St Gallen and Harvard University
Date: 14 January 2011, Friday
Time: 2:00 – 3:00 PM
Venue: Blk EA, Engineering Auditorium
Abstract
With $100 billion in revenues and over 400,000 employees, Siemens is one of the largest corporations in the world and Germany most valuable company in 2011. It all started with Werner Siemens’ small workshop in Berlin 170 years ago. Siemens was one of the entrepreneurs who built the global economy in the nineteenth century by creating a business organization that pursued resources and markets across borders. Coming from nothing, how did he manage to create a leading innovation company within few decades in times of rapid technology change? What lessons can we learn from him to understand the nature of our today’s personal and business opportunities? Are Werner Siemens family values and spirit still ingrained in Siemens global business activities?
Biography
Björn von Siemens is an entrepreneur and private investor out of Boston, MA, USA and Berlin, Germany. Also, he is an entrepreneurship researcher and Ph.D. Fellow at the University of St. Gallen and Harvard University. He earned his M.Sc. in Accounting and Finance from the London School of Economics and B.Sc. from European Business School
in Oestrich-Winkel, where he graduated in the top 3% and 10% of his class respectively. Björn previously advised corporate clients through both the Boston Consulting Group and Bain & Company. He also developed expertise in private equity at Droege & Company and business development at Siemens AG. Björn currently sits on the advisory board of several new ventures in the media-technology, bio-tech and gastronomy sectors, offering a deep knowledge of applied academic theory and extensive professional network.
* Admission is free.
Kindly RSVP to Ms Shika Ismail at idmnri AT nus DOT edu DOT sg