Word Lens has just been released on iOS (iPhone, iPod touch, sorry iPad comeback when you get a camera). The app introduces visual mobile translation. It currently works only on English-Spanish and Spanish-English but the concept is very promising. Just use your phone camera to look at signs in the other language the translation replaces it with you desired language. That simple and that amazing. Watch the video and you will see for yourself.
YouTube – Introducing Word Lens.
Human ingenuity never ceases to amaze me. in mere days after the Microsoft Kinect is hacked to be connected to a PC a genius has been able to use it as a 3d camera. Watch and learn that there is no limit to what one bright mind can do. let alone an internet of minds.
Grand Challenges in Global Health
“The Grand Challenges in Global Health initiative is focused on engaging creative minds to work on scientific and technological breakthroughs for the world’s most pressing health problems. Grand Challenges Explorations is a grant program within the initiative that fosters innovative, early-stage research to expand the pipeline of ideas that can lead to those much needed global health solutions.”
via Grand Challenges in Global Health | Grand Challenges Explorations | Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Laurie Santos presents an intriguing TED talk on human/primate behavior, psychology and economics. A must watch.
Don’t be fooled by Henry’s very calm speech patterns and intonation. This is one hugely exciting TED talk. very inspiring on many levels
“Knowledge is a polymorphic concept” (Moteleb & Bakry 2004). Knowledge, information, and data are different facets to the same thing. One thing could mean data in a certain context and the same thing could mean information or knowledge in different contexts.
Full article at the source: Polymorphic Nature of Knowledge.
Knowledge management often refers to various theories and definitions. However, there is a lack of consensus on what exactly knowledge management is and what constitutes a knowledge management system.
Full Article at the source: Ontology of KMS Elements.
Stanford encourages fellow educators to use Stanford Engineering course materials in their own classrooms. A Creative Commons license allows for free and open use, reuse, adaptation and redistribution of Stanford Engineering Everywhere material.
Stanford has followed MIT (previously posted here just search) and is now offering a wide variety of engineering courses that include computer science, and artificial intelligence. See below for their original announcement:
Welcome to Stanford Engineering Everywhere (SEE)
For the first time in its history, Stanford is offering some of its most popular engineering classes free of charge to students and educators around the world. Stanford Engineering Everywhere (SEE) expands the Stanford experience to students and educators online. A computer and an Internet connection is all you need. View lecture videos, access reading lists and other course handouts, take quizzes and tests, and communicate with other SEE students, all at your convenience.
This fall, SEE launches its programming by offering one of Stanford’s most popular sequences: the three-course Introduction to Computer Science taken by the majority of Stanford’s undergraduates and seven more advanced courses in artificial intelligence and electrical engineering.
Stanford Engineering Everywhere offers:
These very informative podcasts have broadened my horizon and helped me through the long and boring traffic (and sometimes boring days at work) 
You can either download them manually or subscribe to them on iTunes or zune and it will download new podcasts regularly.
Have a great listen!
The naked scientists (60min.) : Weekly show, discusses various scientific and technological topics, and has a weekly “kitchen science” segment which you could try at home.
http://www.thenakedscientists.com/
Tech Weekly (30min.) : Discusses contemporary science topics.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/series/techweekly
Material Matters (30min.)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/podcasts/material/
Science in Action (30min.)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/podcasts/scia/
Science with Dr. Karl (60min.): Dr. Karl answers all sorts of itchy science questions from all over the world
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/podcasts/drkarl/