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• ScienceFest, Day 2: Phygital Technologies And The New Approach To Museums

  …tures or sounds can be used to track one's position in space. A good example of that can be the interactive sandbox that uses common sand, position sensors and a Kinect controller. Depending on the surface pattern, the program projects different realistic textures of mountains, volcanoes, flora and fauna, etc. on the 3D model of the sandbox. Thus, by changing the …

  31.05.2017

• ITMO's Technopark Establishes Cooperation with a Major Food Production Company

  …of ITMO's International Research Centre "Biotechnologies of the Third Millennium". At the same time, the plant's management is interested in further improvement of quality control, product-line expansion and cost reduction by technological means. ITMO's delegation at Atria's plant "ITMO's Technopark and Atria Russia started to collaborate only recently, in Ap…

  31.05.2017

• ITMO and Newtonew Announce Winners of First “Physics: the Game of Light” Online Contest

  …d to implement everything we’ve planned, and in a short span of time. This online-game is a unique project that, besides the obvious opportunity to increase one’s chances at enrollment at ITMO, also solves an educational problem: making schoolchildren interested in basic sciences, particularly in physics, without which the modern society couldn’t exist. Without a dou…

  31.05.2017

• Clothing Made From Bacteria, Electronic Tattoos, And Latest Virus Threats: What We’ve Learned at the Campus Festival

  …s that data protection has to be provided by special governmental agencies. This leads us to a more serious kind of question: what if data becomes the new form of total control? As of now, there are even companies that develop solutions for such kinds of problems. For instance, there are projects such as eko Glasses - glasses that provide protection from face reco…

  30.05.2017

• Digitally Immortalized: How the Solovetsky Monastery is Finding a New Life in Virtual Reality

  … technological. For this reason the team working on the Solovetsky monastery project today is made up of experts in arts and non-technical sciences (history, archaeology, culturology, etc.), as well as engineers whose goal is to represent historical data in a digital form. The advantage of this alliance is that their activities are interspersed: for a period of time,…

  30.05.2017

• Science Fest: Growth of VR, Functional Food and Why Humanity Will Always Return to Earth

  …away anytime soon. Firstly, such technology allows people to handle the ever-increasing amount of information in all spheres of life. For instance, when performing quality control by a conveyor belt, all the human operator will have to do is to glance at a particular product and the detailed information on it will appear to them through augmented reality. A surgeon c…

  29.05.2017

• 5 Things You Need to Know Now

  … coated with any slightly conductive material. While not as precise as smartphone touch-screen technology, the resulting touchpads are still accurate enough to allow basic control functions, such as using a slider or pushing a button. Mind-controlled devices help stoke patients to regain functions.  Stroke patients who learned to use…

  28.05.2017

• Find Your Piece in the St. Petersburg City Day Puzzle

  …es - the Town of Trades is a great event for anyone who is searching for new experiences! Tranquility Piece: The Tulip Festival What can be more relaxing than taking a stroll amongst thousands of flowers? The Tulip Festival on the Yelagin Island is most spectacular: 140,000 tulips of 120 different kinds have been planted on an area of about two square kilometer…

  26.05.2017

• “White Night of Technology”: How to Ensure Cybersecurity and Teach Neural Networks to See

  …y’s NeuroNet IP-accelerator, notes, neural interfaces have been around for more than 50 years. The first one is probably the Stimoceiver – an electronic device that can be controlled through an FM radio connection. In the 1950s Jose Delgado, a neurosurgeon at Yale University, connected it to a bull’s brain and managed to affect the animal’s movement using a computer …

  26.05.2017

• Volunteering Unlimited: Students from Russia's 35 Regions Presented Their Projects in Yagodnoe

  …ea came to two students of Saint-Petersburg State University of Industrial Technologies and Design, Valeria Kudrina and Polina Andreeva, when they visited the Fourth Psycho-Neurological Care Facility last year. At that time, Valeria collaborated with the Step Ahead non-profit organization, and came to the facility to conduct a workshop for children. She noticed that …

  26.05.2017