reflections on the technium

For this installment of Brown Bag at the Movies we will be viewing (abstract below):

• Stuff Developers Say  1:48
  
• F-RAM-Based Semiconductor Solutions from Ramtron  6:53
  
• Split-Cycle Four-Stroke Engine from Scuderi Group – SAE 2012  7:13
  
• Programming For The Rest Of Us – Intel 2012 ISEF  2:27
  
• Intelligent Self-Assembling Systems Using Robotic Cells – Intel 2012 ISEF  6:48
  
• SparkFun Electronics and Open Source Hardware  2:36
  
• Two-Piston Single-Cylinder Engine from Pinnacle Engines – SAE 2012  6:30
  
• Rotating Rotary Engines from Doyle Rotary Engine – SAE 2012  6:06
  
• The Grail Engine from Grail Engine Technologies – SAE 2012  5:23
  
• Touring the International Space Station with NASA – ISS 2012  9:02
  
• The James Webb Space Telescope from Northrop Grumman – ISS 2012  13:47
  
• GPS Satellite Command, Control and Simulation from Braxton – ISS 2012  7:38
  
• Common Operational Environment Solutions from Kratos – ISS 2012  7:22
  

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For this installment of Brown Bag at the Movies we will be viewing (abstract below):

• Google Project Glass: The Vision  2:30
  
• Google Project Glass: The Reality  0:46
  
• Code Hero: This Game Teaches You How to Make Games  21:48
  
• The Next Generation: How DARPA Democratizes Design  25:04
  
• 4 lessons from robots about being human  17:44
  
• A reality check on renewables  18:48
  

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For this installment of Brown Bag at the Movies we will be viewing (abstract below):

• Asteroid Mining Mission Revealed by Planetary Resources, Inc.  3:15
  
• 404, the story of a page not found  4:08
  
• Tracking the trackers  6:40
• The Secrets of James Dyson, Inventor Extraordinaire  28:24
  
• Ian Dunbar on dog-friendly dog training  14:42
  
• The mathematics of history  4:26
  

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For this installment of Brown Bag at the Movies we will be viewing (abstract below):

• Google container data center tour  6:37
  
• Which Way Next? with Guest Peter Diamandis, Abundance author  53:56

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For this installment of Brown Bag at the Movies we will be viewing (abstract below):

• A garden in my apartment  7:53
• How games make kids smarter  16:41
• John Cleese on Creativity  36:10

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For this installment of Brown Bag at the Movies we will be viewing (abstract below):

• The missing link to renewable energy 15:15
• From mach-20 glider to humming bird drone  25:02
• Let’s transform energy — with natural gas  19:43

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For this installment of Brown Bag at the Movies we will be viewing (abstract below):

• How to break habits 3:38
  
• How Containerization Shaped the Modern World  4:47
  
• How Pandemics Spread  8:00
  
• Yup, I built a nuclear fusion reactor  3:33
  
• 60 Minutes – Khan Academy: The future of education?  13:27
• Treating cancer with electric fields  15:36
• Hack the planet with Code Hero and Makerhoods  5:39
• The $8 billion iPod  5:11
  

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For this installment of Brown Bag at the Movies we will be viewing (abstract below):

• The Way of the Whiteboard: Persuading with Pictures  1:02:17

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For this installment of Brown Bag at the Movies we will be viewing (abstract below):

• The Robotic Musicians known as: Intel’s Industrial Control in Concert 2:46
• All Your Devices Can Be Hacked  16:51
• The Myth of Common Sense  15:15
• The Zombie–Visionary War and Beyond  20:18
• Interplanetary Internet  8:50

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