24 Feb 2010

Con questa vignetta mi sono presentato alla squadra alla vigilia della Roma Ostia del 2010. – With this drawing I introduced myself to the rest of the team. My brother Ugo is a top runner, I’m rather on the bottom end. Apart from the hair, during the Roma Ostia Half Marathon of 2010, you could recognize us from the bib number… Link to this article

23 Feb 2010

Zymachi know how things work, but they don’t know what things are. Proteena provides names to things. In one scene she names Zymachi themselves [31] following a sort of binary system: O=Zero, X=Yeoman, OO=Moon-moon, OX=Antagonist, XX=Charm, O/X=Healer, X/O=Idiot (in a first version names were: Cyclops, Druid, Goggle, Boxer, Numb, Skeleton and Clown). Baptized Zymachi conform their behaviour to the given name. Finding the word “Zymachi” was hard work, especially because there was another candidate: Placebot, conjunction of placebo and robot. Unfortunately Place Bots are specific codes used in Lotus or Java scripts, so I had to discard the word, and was only left with a logo: Link to this article

15 Feb 2010

Zymachi communicate with outer world via genetic markers. Learn how to amplify these signals from microcosmos. Link to this article

14 Feb 2010

Watch NANO CLIPS, a Youtube channel where you can see how to handle objects of micrometric scale.  Something similar happens in the animation I’m working on [13]. Link to this article

14 Feb 2010

Zymachi antennas resonate with appropriate radio waves [32]. Watch a real resonating nanotube, fundamental component of a nano radio.

California researchers Peter Burke and Chris Rotherglen have made a carbon nanotube demodulator that translates AM radio waves into sound, and incorporated it into a complete radio system:

Watch video below for further explanation.
Link to this article

13 Feb 2010

Quantum computing is no more an academic speculation [12]. Link to this article