Just on the right side of impossible (part 3)

In Just on the right side of Impossible (part 2), I mentioned several ideas that I think could be ideas for frighteningly ambitious start-ups. Three items showed up on my radar this week related to some of these ideas, here they are:


* Communicating with Animals :

* New Types of Sensors:

• BioBricks used for counting cells ( of interest is the brainstorming page, and the modeling page). The IGEM deadline for late registration is May 1st.
• The descriptive Camera (What’s In A Picture? The Descriptive Camera Will Tell You) uses Mechanical Turk to provide a description of the scene you are watching. You can even hack one up.It would be interesting if given a description of a photo, one were to be able to describe video scenes instead, as the information added to the stream is usually very sparse.

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