Download or read book Science Sorted Robots Chips and Techno Stuff written by Glenn Murphy and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2011-08-05 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What's inside a laptop? How can you stuff 1,000 CDs into an mp3 player? Who built the Internet? How smart is the world's smartest robot? How do smartphones and TV remote controls work? Glenn Murphy, author of Why is Snot Green?, answers these and lots of other brilliant technology questions in Robots, Chips and Techno Stuff. This fact-filled book is packed to capacity with megabytes of marvellous information, exploring everything from the first simple engines to the latest gadgets, computers and networks. Discover more funny science with Space: The Whole Whizz-Bang Story.
Download or read book Robots and the Whole Technology Story written by Glenn Murphy and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-02-26 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What's inside a laptop? How can you stuff 1,000 CDs into an MP3 player? Who built the Internet? How smart is the world's smartest robot? How do smartphones and TV remote controls work? The answers to these and other brilliant questions about technology can be found in this funny and fascinating book in the Science Sorted series by Glenn Murphy, bestselling author of Why is Snot Green?. Packed to capacity with megabytes of marvellous information. Robots and the Whole Technology Story explores everything from the first simple engines to the latest gadgets, computers and networks. Discover more funny science with Disgusting Science: Bodies: The Whole Blood-Pumping Story.
Download or read book Great Electronic Gadget Designs 1900 Today written by Ian Graham and published by Raintree. This book was released on 2015-08-13 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the most amazing gadget designs since 1900. From the Japanese Tamagotchi to the iPhone, this book charts the story of design that led to some amazing games and gadgets. We look at the needs that prompted their design, the designers responsible for breaking boundariesand the technology that made them possible.
Download or read book Does Farting Make You Faster written by Glenn Murphy and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why don’t hammer-throwers get dizzy? Could the world’s fastest swimmer catch a jet-ski? How far can a human being run or cycle before they drop? Which nutter invented the ski jump? Glenn Murphy, author of Why is Snot Green?, answers these and other brilliant questions in How Loud Can You Burp?, a fascinating book about the science of sport. From running a marathon to beating your friends at basketball, from negotiating a snowboard slalom track to pulling a backflip on a BMX, find out everything you ever wanted to know about sports and games! Become a whizz in science AND trounce your friends at your school sports day. It’s like being in the Olympics with none of the boring bits! Discover more funny science with How Loud Can You Burp?.
Download or read book JunkBots Bugbots and Bots on Wheels Building Simple Robots With BEAM Technology written by Dave Hrynkiw and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2002-10-18 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the publishers of BattleBots: The Official Guide comes this do-it-yourself guide to BEAM (Biology, Electronics, Aesthetics, Mechanics) robots. They're cheap, simple, and can be built by beginners in just a few hours, with help from this expert guide complete with full-color photos. Get ready for some dumpster-diving!
Download or read book Mars Clipper Making Chips Robots Building The Robot Army written by Carlin Comm and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-22 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These books are set in near real time, I started writing these about 2009. We have the hardware now, it's more a matter of money. The technology is real. The AI is nearly real now. Conversational skills with Alexis or your smart phone, most conversation is somewhat predictable. The rest, we'll improvise and adlib!Why go to Mars? It's cold there, it's dusty, right? The adventure, the wide open spaces, it's all the best parts of the Wild West, before there were too many people!Talking to your robot assistant doesn't seem any stranger than talking to your pets, right? At least the robot can actually answer your questions! I can't wait to see what the robot says next!For you, dear reader, I hope you have fun. And no matter what life throws at you, I hope you don't die with your story stuck inside you. Once upon a time... I was pretty far into "Season 1" when I realized I hadn't really set the stage, for how I could have gotten there, so I started writing a quick introduction, that ended up being longer than I expected.Episode ZeroTurned into 3 books"Episode Zero" included recruitment and training."Episode 1 - Geeks Gone Wild!" was a camping trip the team got to go on."Episode 2 - Going To Mars!" takes us through the end of training, into orbit.Those were all the "introduction" part of how a regular guy could get the chance to go to space. What can I say, I was having fun writing, and didn't want to cut most of it out. "Season 1"Turned into 9 books...Book 1"Building Spaceships For Fun And Profit!"Part of our mission is to test new techniques, like building and launching small space pods. Book 2"Turtle and The Rescue Mission!"One of the pods we built in Book 1 stopped working. Guess we'll have to go find out what went wrong!Book 3"Building Pods ... So Many Pods"Still building pods. It's a great way to keep busy, it's about 200 days flight time between Earth and Mars.Book 4"Making Chips! Robots Building The Robot Army"We're starting to automate things. With only one human and one robot, things take too long, let's make more robots!Book 5"Building the New Airlock - Expanding Horizons"Launching pods is taking too long, we need to improve our systems, so we test building a bigger structure, outside. Book 6"Blue Moon, calling Mars Clipper..."Well, this is weird, why is there already someone on Mars?Book 7"Special Delivery - Resupply Drops for Blue Moon"Ok, turns out half of our cargo was supposed to be for the Mars mission, and we're not even landing!Book 8"Building The Mars Orbital Station"We're in the big leagues now, we have our own space station!Book 9"On The Road Again - Tinkering Tutorials and Jet Packs!"Time to leave Mars, and start the long 200 day trip back to Earth again. Be sure to check out the website!www.marsclipper.comMore of the road map...Season 2will be about mining and exploring the asteroid belt, beyond Mars.Season 3We go Privateer! I think some of the Dreadful 6 join up for this one.Season 4Space Pirates! Its inevitable, space is just full of tasty bootie!Season 5Space Zombies - Because, you know, reasons. Probably radiation. Season 6Return to Earth - Jump Start Humanity! Season 7 Retire to Mars, grow Mars Coffee, Finally build the Kayak Park with Dreads.
Download or read book Robogenesis written by Daniel H. Wilson and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2015-03-17 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It’s been three years since the global uprising of the world's robots, three long years in which ordinary people waged a guerilla war that saved humankind from the brink of annihilation. But a horrific new enemy has emerged, and the resistance is called to fight once again. And in a world where humanity and technology are pushed to the breaking point, their one hope may reside with their former enemy—Archos R-14.
Download or read book The Age of Spiritual Machines written by Ray Kurzweil and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Bold futurist Ray Kurzweil, author of The Singularity Is Near, offers a framework for envisioning the future of machine intelligence—“a book for anyone who wonders where human technology is going next” (The New York Times Book Review). “Kurzweil offers a thought-provoking analysis of human and artificial intelligence and a unique look at a future in which the capabilities of the computer and the species that invented it grow ever closer.”—BILL GATES Imagine a world where the difference between man and machine blurs, where the line between humanity and technology fades, and where the soul and the silicon chip unite. This is not science fiction. This is the twenty-first century according to Ray Kurzweil, the “restless genius” (The Wall Street Journal), “ultimate thinking machine” (Forbes), and inventor of the most innovative and compelling technology of our era. In his inspired hands, life in the new millennium no longer seems daunting. Instead, it promises to be an age in which the marriage of human sensitivity and artificial intelligence fundamentally alters and improves the way we live. More than just a list of predictions, Kurzweil’s prophetic blueprint for the future guides us through the inexorable advances that will result in: • Computers exceeding the memory capacity and computational ability of the human brain (with human-level capabilities not far behind) • Relationships with automated personalities who will be our teachers, companions, and lovers • Information fed straight into our brains along direct neural pathways Eventually, the distinction between humans and computers will have become sufficiently blurred that when the machines claim to be conscious, we will believe them.
Download or read book Films from the Future written by Andrew Maynard and published by Mango Media Inc.. This book was released on 2018-11-15 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Deftly shows how a seemingly frivolous film genre can guide us in shaping tomorrow’s world.” —Seth Shostak, senior astronomer, SETI Institute Artificial intelligence, gene manipulation, cloning, and interplanetary travel are all ideas that seemed like fairy tales but a few years ago. And now their possibilities are very much here. But are we ready to handle these advances? This book, by a physicist and expert on responsible technology development, reveals how science fiction movies can help us think about and prepare for the social consequences of technologies we don’t yet have, but that are coming faster than we imagine. Films from the Future looks at twelve movies that take us on a journey through the worlds of biological and genetic manipulation, human enhancement, cyber technologies, and nanotechnology. Readers will gain a broader understanding of the complex relationship between science and society. The movies mix old and new, and the familiar and unfamiliar, to provide a unique, entertaining, and ultimately transformative take on the power of emerging technologies, and the responsibilities they come with.
Download or read book The Fourth Industrial Revolution written by Klaus Schwab and published by Currency. This book was released on 2017-01-03 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World-renowned economist Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum, explains that we have an opportunity to shape the fourth industrial revolution, which will fundamentally alter how we live and work. Schwab argues that this revolution is different in scale, scope and complexity from any that have come before. Characterized by a range of new technologies that are fusing the physical, digital and biological worlds, the developments are affecting all disciplines, economies, industries and governments, and even challenging ideas about what it means to be human. Artificial intelligence is already all around us, from supercomputers, drones and virtual assistants to 3D printing, DNA sequencing, smart thermostats, wearable sensors and microchips smaller than a grain of sand. But this is just the beginning: nanomaterials 200 times stronger than steel and a million times thinner than a strand of hair and the first transplant of a 3D printed liver are already in development. Imagine “smart factories” in which global systems of manufacturing are coordinated virtually, or implantable mobile phones made of biosynthetic materials. The fourth industrial revolution, says Schwab, is more significant, and its ramifications more profound, than in any prior period of human history. He outlines the key technologies driving this revolution and discusses the major impacts expected on government, business, civil society and individuals. Schwab also offers bold ideas on how to harness these changes and shape a better future—one in which technology empowers people rather than replaces them; progress serves society rather than disrupts it; and in which innovators respect moral and ethical boundaries rather than cross them. We all have the opportunity to contribute to developing new frameworks that advance progress.
Download or read book Why Is Snot Green written by Glenn Murphy and published by Square Fish. This book was released on 2009-04-14 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PREPARE TO LAUGH AND LEARN Scientific answers to mysteries kids really want to know. Sure a lot of kids want to grow up to be astronauts, but according to scientist Glenn Murphy, even MORE kids want to know what happens to astronaut farts. (Short answer: Not good things!) And they want to know: Why don't all fish die from lightening storms? Why haven't we all been sucked into a black hole? Do animals talk? Told in a back-and-forth conversational style, Why is Snot Green? presents science just the way kids want to learn it--with lots of laughter.
Download or read book Rise of the Robots written by Martin Ford and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2015-05-05 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times-bestselling guide to how automation is changing the economy, undermining work, and reshaping our lives Winner of Best Business Book of the Year awards from the Financial Times and from Forbes "Lucid, comprehensive, and unafraid . . . ;an indispensable contribution to a long-running argument." -- Los Angeles Times What are the jobs of the future? How many will there be? And who will have them? As technology continues to accelerate and machines begin taking care of themselves, fewer people will be necessary. Artificial intelligence is already well on its way to making "good jobs" obsolete: many paralegals, journalists, office workers, and even computer programmers are poised to be replaced by robots and smart software. As progress continues, blue and white collar jobs alike will evaporate, squeezing working -- and middle-class families ever further. At the same time, households are under assault from exploding costs, especially from the two major industries-education and health care-that, so far, have not been transformed by information technology. The result could well be massive unemployment and inequality as well as the implosion of the consumer economy itself. The past solutions to technological disruption, especially more training and education, aren't going to work. We must decide, now, whether the future will see broad-based prosperity or catastrophic levels of inequality and economic insecurity. Rise of the Robots is essential reading to understand what accelerating technology means for our economic prospects-not to mention those of our children-as well as for society as a whole.
Download or read book Science Sorted Space Black Holes and Stuff written by Glenn Murphy and published by Macmillan Children's Books. This book was released on 2010-06-01 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New from the author of the bestselling Why Is Snot Green? and How Loud Can You Burp? It's a BIG universe out there, and there's loads of stuff we don't know about it yet. But what we do know is pretty cool! This book has loads of information on all sorts of brilliant things like black holes, planets, solar flares and red dwarfs, with no boring bits! 7-9 years
Download or read book Spectacular Science for 8 Year Olds written by Glenn Murphy and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2021-08-19 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Could we ever bring dinosaurs back to life? What are atoms made of? How do plants know where to grow? Why are brains all wrinkly? Glenn Murphy, author of Why Is Snot Green? and How Loud Can You Burp?, is back to answer these and a lot of other brilliant questions in this wonderfully funny and fascinating book that covers all of the science, medicine and engineering an 8 year old needs to know. Test your knowledge with quick quizzes and amazing activities. With brilliant illustrations by Al Murphy. With a nod to the the school curriculum, chapters include: Animals, Evolution and Extinction Atoms, Elements and Explosions Plants, Habitat and Climate Energy, Power and Machines Growth, Healing and Disease
Download or read book Evolution The Whole Life on Earth Story written by Glenn Murphy and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-06-05 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is a selfish gene? What are the kingdoms of life? Why are there no car-sized bugs and beetles? Glenn Murphy, author of Why is Snot Green?, answers these and a lot of other brilliant questions in this funny and informative book. Packed with doodles and information about all sorts of incredible things, from how we evolved from chemical soup to shrews to human beings, and why bugs really do rule the world? Evolution: The Whole Life on Earth Story contains absolutely no boring bits! Discover more funny science with Space: The Whole Whizz-Bang Story.
Download or read book Tcl Tk in a Nutshell written by Paul Raines and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 1999-03-25 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Tcl language and Tk graphical toolkit are simple and powerful building blocks for custom applications. The Tcl/Tk combination is increasingly popular because it lets you produce sophisticated graphical interfaces with a few easy commands, develop and change scripts quickly, and conveniently tie together existing utilities or programming libraries.One of the attractive features of Tcl/Tk is the wide variety of commands, many offering a wealth of options. Most of the things you'd like to do have been anticipated by the language's creator, John Ousterhout, or one of the developers of Tcl/Tk's many powerful extensions. Thus, you'll find that a command or option probably exists to provide just what you need.And that's why it's valuable to have a quick reference that briefly describes every command and option in the core Tcl/Tk distribution as well as the most popular extensions. Keep this book on your desk as you write scripts, and you'll be able to find almost instantly the particular option you need.Most chapters consist of alphabetical listings. Since Tk and mega-widget packages break down commands by widget, the chapters on these topics are organized by widget along with a section of core commands where appropriate. Contents include: Core Tcl and Tk commands and Tk widgets C interface (prototypes) Expect [incr Tcl] and [incr Tk] Tix TclX BLT Oratcl, SybTcl, and Tclodbc
Download or read book Saturn s Children written by Charles Stross and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the extinction of humankind in the twenty-third century, leaving behind only androids, femmebot Freya Nakamichi 47 accepts a job to transport a mysterious package from Mercury to Mars, unaware that some extremely powerful and ruthless humanoids will stop at nothing to possess the package and its contents.
