although i have gone duck hunting a few times i've never seen the duck dynasty t.v. show but gosh i heard about the scandal involving one of the stars of the show phil robertson who got suspended for making what many consider anti homo sexual comments in an interview this celebrity scandal is creating a lot of arguments about freedom of speech on social networks many people who believe that robertson deserved to be booted from the show for what he said argue that freedom of speech means that robertson can't be arrested by the government for what he said but the any t.v. channel has the right to fire whom they like the thing is that if the situation were reversed and robertson was fired for making. statements then people who are currently defending any right to hire and fire as they please would all be bashing the t.v. channel for violating the stars freedom of speech think cry that firing him would violate his rights and i'm sure some websites would make him into a hero or demand a boycott or closing of a n.d. forever very few people actually believe in freedom of speech for all they just believe in freedom of speech for people who agree with them but that's just my

opinion. dear bank account how does that look today a bit more depleted than usual could be that the masters of the universe are why the n.s.a. changed your bank account balance that's what i've been up to. all those jokesters at the n.s.a. just playing around with the financial system for a followed by the answer game i thought the reason they were involved in all that invasive technology stacy was to keep us safe.

alone welcomes technology updates on today's show christmas comes early from. a novel animation up brings films to the big screen. a moscow state university gives a whole new meaning to wearable technology but first media may still be a couple of days off but they've already been plenty of festivities this month. on something like. take no spark nano technology sensor was officially opened in the town of troy just south of moscow. aims to become a launch pad for high tech startups by bringing together all the facilities and know how to develop and produce innovative goods all into one roof while the town's strong research base made it the not true choice of location the pog received large

investments on the company's chair. i was there to make sure the money had been put to good years back to you about twenty five startups should already be created this year there are twenty five startups alone in the year the center was set up and i expect tens or even hundreds of startups to emerge out of here in the near future and today you see in the creation of these innovation powerhouses with your own amish. lasers are a key direction for techno spark so we went to a best of projects which is also part of the regional innovation cluster to see what's cooking the family run business has been producing ultra short pulls lasers for fifteen years it's emerged out of the birthplace of the laser believe it to physical institute and they continue to work closely together. second leases are already frequently used for increasing and cutting too often glass but the full spectrum of after cations for this type of laser is only just being realized however it's hard to imagine exactly how short

a bento second day's. second is one for trillions one millionth of a billionth of a second there are a way more then two seconds in a second then yes the universe has existed so to put it into context it's takes around three hundred million pencil seconds for us to blink. if you are travelling at the speed of light you would only move north point three michael b c one tenth the second which is about the size of a virus for such a miniscule amount of time the potential for this technology is immense. the main benefit of second lasers is the low level of heat transfer almost no heat is transferred to the surrounding areas the material is removed through a process known as cold ablation in other laser systems remove material by melting it evaporation or micro explosions and this is a completely new process because the intensity is so high at the focal point of the material turns into a plasma and displacement disappears instantly from the desired location this takes

place in such a short amount. so there he does not have time to diffuse into the surrounding areas secularize that follows on from the first of this method can be used with any material transparent no matter how hard or what its composition. so what about diamonds one of the hardest natural materials known to man beauty an exceptional solidness is what makes them prized by jewellers these properties that make them hard to keep secure. the crystal. has been producing fine diamonds from fifty years. of sizes to choose from each polished to a sparkling shine the company uses. a unique id. to prevent it from being counterfeit. but this form of marking has its limitations because one. can be removed so the company.

institutes for a more permanent solution. traditional strength in a fundamental science projects. this device second laser is capable of creating a unique mob deep within the diamond. the edging is so fine that it's can't be seen with the naked eye. to avoid damaging the surface so the laser beam penetrates the exterior unfocused but is then intensified hundreds of thousands of times inside the diamond this provides a concentration of energy required to turn the diamond into graphite although still a form of carbon block providing the contrast required for the id and the only way of removing it would be to split the diamond into smaller stones which would trust

the overall volume up locations of. extend far beyond jewelry which. many uses we have researched corrective eye surgery with this laser in cooperation with a central clinical hospital we're also running a series of projects to examine high energy physics with this laser and others in our labs here. pinpoint precision offense so second lasers makes them ideal for nano surgery and grafting prosthetics directly to the bone they use is also range from engraving consumer electronics so high tech kitchen appliances while their potential for fixing silicon chips makes them indispensable in the computer industry books whatever they're used for blink and you'll miss it these fish will opening of techno spark wasn't the only cause for celebration in december because christmas came early for some of the country's longest and most talented innovators and of course we went along to the main award ceremonies held this month. focal

point by convention two thousand and thirteen got thoughts of buying in moscow's bellman university on the fifth of december the all singing all dancing and you live event recognizes bush's most talented young scientists and at the end of the day the joy of experts pick the best projects in green and biotechnologies materials i-t. and engineering but despite the exterior design he can project has very commercial goals so it is that. there are no specialized events for young engineers or inventors in our country at the moment. we don't want people involved in high tech development just three million dollars for a fifty percent stake and a company. to make billions just like tony stark and. just such a rousing words i was he gets to meet the future fine men and women of the barman university in the exhibition area. the stones not only gave finalist the opportunity to show off the fruits of their labors but also network and meet

potential investors. the highlights included the university's formula students car and printable solar panels that can be attached to pretty much anything meanwhile lurking in the depths the uni's entry for the student robel so competition boasts a three d. camera and is floating its way up the leaderboard and of course no technology show would be complete without augmenting reality play display here brings two d. images from books to kids i'm up to life and then lets users interact with the b. three d. to reveal the information embedded inside. elsewhere in moscow that in a start two thousand and thirteen final was held at the center of modern design innovations later that evening over three hundred students submitted their projects for consideration so we one of the top three prizes and those who made it to the finals had to present their ideas lie and was subjected to a grilling from the jury those who didn't quite make it to the final it was still on hand to show off their entries which included

a unique hydro massage and facial tracking technology which only requires a standard low resolution webcam to track movement making the technology less of a strain on the pocket back in the main hall the jury had come to a decision the winners of this year's in a star included a radical rethink of moscow a super green roofing material and a device to make sure you never get stung on your electricity bill is one thing receive an award for your innovation but once you spend your prize money you should go to tech crunch to try and find an investor or not. change. tech crunch moscow two thousand and thirteen was held at the digital october center guests of the event by the tech news websites of the same name range from startups to industry leaders as always tech crunch is stossel ali was just packed with people demo their wares vying for attention and hoping to get a spot on the hallowed disrupt stage participants have three minutes to present their idea of charts investors and move on to the next round however one name that

crops up in a presentation about. the messaging up stood out from the rest. is the founder of the film production company and if that doesn't ring any bells he's also the director of the hollywood film and many of the star studded flicks with the path from concept to big screen is no walk in the park and pre-visualization plays an important role in getting the movie off the ground action parts modern pitches require more than the traditional to the chalk sketches three d. animation is give a frame by frame idea of how the finished product should look pre-visualization is also help direct to tweak camera angles stage direction and lighting and in an industry where time costs lots of money they help everyone know who's doing what where and when on set despite saving money even the previews are very costly and time consuming a fact. when i read all sorts of images and pictures

appear in my head and i thought it would be great if you could write a text and then have a computer to automatically turn it into an animated cartoon but. it would understand and use the same language used by all filmmakers when they're telling a story just from images on a screen. so the guys at the studio got cracking to make the most fun to see a reality the company develops a universal text animation script this compatible with pre-prepared three d. characters and animals you simply put in your text complete with stage directions and the application source of the dialogue movement gestures and camera angles it was easy to see how it was coming useful in the film industry so while director such as he was busy with his next screenplay i wanted to find out how such a specific piece of software made its way to the mass market. where we took the

professional version which supports lots of features and gradually began automating them or cutting them out altogether introducing defaults at such a sort of this product could be used by a wider audience in the future. we even had a trial where we made a t.v. series for a cable channel to three d. backgrounds and characters that were left and created an online version of the program which could be accessed through a browser. so anyone could visit and see the interface it has a stage these two robotic characters and a text input box. the text is then uploaded to a server to be animated the whole process only takes around fifteen second but leads to some rather peculiar videos online twenty eighth and it's an awfully people in their thirty's and forty's complaining and they should because their lives are almost over twenty sucks because it's the end of fun or at least society

thinking it's ok to have fun when you turn twenty eight you and your fun friends start partying and start having addictions that's what they call it you can get hammered on monday night without raising some eyebrows other may seem like a lot of nonsense to get it is a lot of users online a chance to express themselves and it caught on surprisingly quickly. when you stood there for with having created these robots and the spy the fact that hughes had created videos which had been viewed over one hundred thousand times. early on but only five six well less than ten percent of our audience could create their own screenplay. so we decided to go one step further and simplify our application even more. to the world of s.m.s. and takes communication. in a world where people show how they're feeling with smiley's social network of

contacts which also happens to be russia's second most visited site was the perfect place to test out the technology the simplified film pre-visualization software only requires text and smileys for the characters to interact with multi messenger is easy if you use and logical progression from current communication trends mentality to must over seven hundred thousand users in the first three weeks alone was the evolution of this once nice software doesn't end here. we plan to launch a mobile application sometime in the summer of twenty fourteen. it's probably be released at the same time as the film it's taken about the. of the characters and images in it. that we currently don't know what film it will probably be a big budget animation or adventure franchise but it will change the country. that's into the first half touch after the break.

the beginning of the long politic night marks in the face it's full island life. in sin the enough temptation. the darkness last for six months. more than people. and it's as easy to hire a rifle as a scooter. because the island is so in a special there are no indigenous people but there are all those who do choose this frozen life. this era as could be right and. if you're on the conductor. why is the price of gold so high. demand global demand do you think oldest money.

know the value of the only place we have to live of the water that we need to survive it's not compared to i mean gold we're not going to eat gold we're not going to bait we're told. we're not going to drink oh well clearly what i'm all is and is in a desperate economic situation absolutely right what we're wrong to do is say therefore any kind of economic development from the outside is going to be a benefit their only purpose is to extract as much money as possible to feed into the global financial system. with part of the geo political economic system that's extremely exploited or. first of all is a question whether mining should even be carried out altogether can it be done in

a way which doesn't destroy people's. lives resources environment well you know those are pretty serious questions mining is not a what a moment problem it's happening in asia in africa and south america in central america in mexico and it's even happening in canada and the united states. welcome back let's take a quick look at this month's tech news. sales of the year kicked off on the fourth of december as gorky park in what's proved to be

a day of firsts is the company's first foray into hunter held markets it also happens to be the first design smartphone and the world's first l.c.d. and screen mobile. display promises to prolong your life and display information even when the phone is not out of battery and under device also has wide implications for rushing innovation. we show that we can do it because three years ago people who believe the russians start up can bring to the commercial product and get this type of success and interest we have around the clock we can create innovative products we can do something consumer electronics and we can be competitive russian environmental monitoring service that unveiled the latest addition to its fleet of flying locks on the sixth of december the heavily modified yacht forty two deep boasts over seventy instruments for monitoring pollution and radiation levels as was particles it can even in rainfall in dry areas of silver iodide disperses. a million martian meeting was held at the

cosmonaut six memorial museum in moscow on the third of december cost of the mars one project the project hopes to establish a permanent human colony on mars by two thousand and twenty three and so far as received over two hundred thousand applications for a one way ticket to the red planet. about this project the first time. but then when you showed a. very realist. all the people that are already involved. and. starts getting on the. training the end of last month the robots he said to join the crew on the international space station early next year controlled remotely from the ground by a pair of much of gloves the robots human like hands will work on the exterior of

the station. the line between technology and biology is becoming increasingly blurred so let's focus on moscow state universities latest developments in wearable tech. brains overbroad. wearable technology has been billed as the next big thing i'm not talking about smart glasses one of the. quickly. braving the cold outside the moscow state university andre and pavol here are busy putting their xo athletes through its paces. first exoskeleton meaning it requires no external. help to carry loads one hundred kilograms. of the cold i had inside the institute of mechanics where i found the technology has rather unusual roots. ventured into robotics way back in the seventy's and. made for quite

a spectacle they used to gyroscopic stabilization system which even when they were standing on the spot having impressed audiences around the world the researchers shifted their attention from wheels to machines having already created one of russia's first anthropomorphic by people robots on a roll so why stop at just two legs. she was built at a time when computers filled entire. but despite a ripe old age of forty the old girl can still still says stuff with the best of them she's the results of the institute's work on mimicking nature in an attempt to find alternative transport means each leg just three axes of movement provided by a total of eighteen perfectly coordinated electric motor as she was refined over the years to improve her awareness of the surrounding environment and before her retirement she could climb stairs and adjust her gait according to incline and the institute of mechanics had big plans to muster two point zero but it. would say

there was talk of using marcia as a mars rover or the thing is though the moon rover before her run on wheels. but if it came across an area on the surface of mars that was either an even or covered in rocks it's unlikely that a wheel based machine would have coped with it. and this is where legs would come in. which will. in the one nine hundred seventy s. during the cold war humanity had set his eyes on conquering other worlds and russia was looking towards the red planet the institute of mechanics propose sending a beefed up version of masha to mars the giants yellow mascotte translated literally as mars walker would help clear the path for human settlement just like masha the muscle hold would have been able to adjust its gait depending on the

surface and obstacles in its path however unlike mattia the muscle horse featured a scoop or claw at the front and open bed at the back for building clearing rubble and collecting samples there was even talk of creating a version that offered the speed of wheels but the off road capabilities of legs was all that remains is a solitary like. it has to be said that as well as carrying out experimental work into a two legged and six legged walking robots we also conduct a theoretical research we developed algorithms that allow the robots to walk and our experience with watching robots came in very handy when we were developing the eggs or skeleton. all these experiences meant that the exo athletes made it from turing ball to prototype in just two days it was developed jointly with the emergency situations ministry and received funding from the ministry of education in science weighing in at just twelve kilos is can help the operator carry loads of

it to one hundred kilograms while it's lack of but she electronics means that it requires little if any maintenance in the field naturally these advantages caught the attention of the russian defense ministry to see both ready to go the eagle eyed a monkey may remember the xo athlete from a news piece we did back in august where it was demonstrated that the russian defense ministry innovation day the russian armed forces saw his potential for assisting troops loading heavy i mean mission crates and supplies as well as carrying heavy duty military combat shields such as this one but it wouldn't be that easy to fight in on the idea. it was shelved. the uni's also working on hydraulic and electric versions this battery powered hydraulic suit weighs twice as much as the passive one and has an operation time of around two hours but this was a tradeoff the team were willing to make for the added power and mobility it gives the user senses on either side of the neat pickup the operator's intention and

swing the leg into action but that's enough talk i have to try one on for size it was a strange feeling been struck so securely to the exoskeleton and it felt like learning to walk again as i started slowly forward but it didn't take long to get the hang of it pressure pads at the bottom of the exoskeleton to take when the foot is touching the floor unlock the leg at the knee ready for the next step. toward there is a motion detection system installed industry room which uses video cameras to help us see how a person moves in the exoskeleton and workout that's nomics. because this is one of the methods are used to deal with the irregularities of the human body that. we can gather statistics to see how people walk then use this information to customize the exoskeleton. including the speed and movement of the joints the rigidity and shock absorbing properties of the excess kalitan a much more. obviously pavel wasn't quite as happy with my performance as i

was i thought i could do with something extra assistance. of plaistow with waning interest from the military. explore the potential of the exoskeleton helping people. from injury not to mention the psychological benefits that come with it is immense the skeleton is lack of complex electronics means that it would be perfect for people living in remote areas it can also be used to help take some of the load off those who carry heavy objects as part of their daily work. in creating the exoskeleton we're hoping to be one of the first players in the market that's only just forming. so we'll have a chance to find our own each and made the expectations that people have told us about. and provide them with the exoskeleton they really need.

gaining popularity through hollywood blockbusters developments such as the one from moscow state university i mean it's exoskeletons are no longer confined to the realms of fantasy and now potential in the real world with doctors and engineers looking for ways either to restore people's mobility and strength or wearable robots might just be the way forward they use this range from helping people get back on their feet and building strength so helping the world. for longer and making lights work of heavy lifting so it looks like exoskeletons day. for me on the technology this year to seeing you and finding out what two thousand and fourteen has in store for us what are your plans to bring in the new year enjoy the ride.

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