http://www.psfk.com Your Go-To Source For New Ideas And Inspiration Wed, 15 Feb 2012 21:04:32 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.psfk.com/2009/04/darpa-makes-progress-with-programmable-matter.html Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:47:47 +0000 Clean Technica reports that the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has been making headway with their exciting programmable matter project. In a nutshell, programmable matter is a way to create and disassemble solid objects on command – a kind of miracle material that can be instantly molded into anything. From the DARPA press release: The five research teams are pursuing a variety of scientific approaches.  The Harvard University team of researchers led by Professor George Whitesides is developing a sort of  “generalized Rubik’s Cube” that acts as a central organizer to encode information and assemble matter.  Professor David R. Liu’sRead more...]]> http://www.psfk.com/2009/03/ultimate-3d-printing-intels-shape-shifting-programmable-matter.html Fri, 06 Mar 2009 15:41:07 +0000 The following video is absolutely mind blowing. Intel and a group of academic researchers are is working on a programmable matter, a shape shifting material that can take on any shape, physical property or color that will rapidly transform into literally anything. It works by moving around microscopic glass spheres called catoms that have processing power and electricity generating capabilities built in. And although they have created small working prototypes in the lab, unfortunately, the video is an animation, a concept design of what they are hoping to achieve. If and when programmable matter becomes a reality, it will beRead more...]]>