It seems logical that if you’re designing a flying robot, you might borrow a few ideas from Mother Nature’s airborne repertoire. But researchers at NYU instead too their inspiration from under the sea for this unusual robotic craft that flies through the air the same way a jellyfish moves through the ocean.
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There’s no category in the Guinness World Records for the most players in a single-screen multiplayer game. However, that’s likely to change soon thanks to a group of New York University graduate students who created SPLAT, a multiplayer game designed for the 120-foot video wall installed in the lobby of the IAC building on the west side of Manhattan. The screen is a Prysm laser phosphor display and sports a whopping resolution of 11,520 x 1,080 pixels. The game was debuted at a packed showcase event last Friday night, along with the work of other students from an NYU Interactive Telecommunications Program class appropriately called Big Screens.
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Scientists have long surmised that inorganic life is possible. New York University hasn’t created any at this stage, but it just produced an uncannily close imitation through a recent experiment. When exposing hematite particles (iron and oxygen in a polymer) to specific wavelengths of blue light, researchers got the particles to form crystals that metabolize and move together like a flock. If it weren’t for the lack of reproduction, the crystals would technically qualify as life — and one upcoming test will trade mobility for that self-replication. Accordingly, NYU sees the crystals not just as having possible uses for electronics, but also as illustrating that a finer line might exist between living creatures and synthetic objects. Whether or not the university ever meets all three conditions for life at once, we may have to reset our expectations for what chemicals can do when they get together.
Via: Wired
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PBS already showcased indie game creation and buggy software, so this week’s digital short on coding as an art form isn’t exactly what we’d call a big surprise. It is, however, delightful (also not a big surprise); NYU’s Daniel Shiffman, Barbarian Group’s Keith Butters, and RGBDToolkit’s James George / Jonathan Minard do a great job of representing the medium. The latter folks even employ Microsoft’s Kinect with their coding to magnificent effect. See for yourself just below the break.
Continue reading PBS’ latest digital short explores the world of coding as art
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NYU recently sent out a seemingly innocuous e-mail to all of its students asking them to opt for paperless forms. People in college get those kinds of e-mails all the time! But when one student decided to ask his mom if he should enable the paperless forms, he accidentally triggered a method that allowed him (and every other student) to reply all to all 39,979 students on the e-mail list. Which meant, any student could send an e-mail to every single student at NYU. And as things in college goes, things quickly got out of hand. More »
Since 2003, three students at New York University have jumped to their deaths from the atrium-facing staircases insides the university’s Elmer Holmes Bobst Library. More »
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