MetaFilter posts tagged with xprize

Tricorder: ETA 2013

quin — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 08:45:55 -0800

The Scanadu Scout (as part of the X-Prize) is aspiring to be a mobile medical device that can help you keep track of your physical stats on a day to day basis, as well as providing urinalysis and influenza testing to your smartphone along with a host of other features. And with an estimated $150 price-tag, it could be put into the hands of nearly everyone. [video with developer]. [via][previously]

"Please state the nature of the medical emergency."

zarq — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 07:27:13 -0800

Qualcomm and the X Prize Foundation have launched a new contest: Envision and build the equivalent of Star Trek's medical tricorder, a portable health monitoring device that can remotely diagnose patients. The winner will receive $10 million. Competition details / FAQ / press release (from last May) More coverage from Forbes, bit-tech, neurologica blog. Tricorders: previously on mefi. (Link in latter post is broken. See here and here for details.)

2061

zarq — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 19:58:52 -0800

On November 22, 2011, TEDxBrussels held an all day event whose theme was: "A Day in the Deep Future." Speakers were asked to try and contemplate what life will be like for mankind in 50 years. Overview. The Talks: (Playlist) * Paddy Ashdown (British politician and diplomat): Why the world will never be the same & what we should do about it * Eileen Bartholomew (Senior Director Life Sciences at X PRIZE Foundation): The XPrize Foundation of 2061 * John Bohannon (Dancer, biologist and journalist): Dance Your PhD * Lorenz Bogaert (Online media entrepreneur): The European Dream * David Brin (Astrophysicist and science fiction author): Target 2061: Reinventing Civilization Across Half a Century * Kushal Chakrabarti (Founder of Vittana, turning global education into opportunity): Literacy is not enough * Leila Janah (Founder of Samasource, giving digital opportunity to impoverished people): The microwork revolution * Peter Cochrane (Futurologist, researcher and engineer): Not HAL9000 * David Cuartielles (Microchip inventor, co-founder of Arduino): Open Source Hardware * David Ewing Duncan (Journalist, Author, Medical Technologist): When I'm 164 * Sebastien de Halleux (Belgian engineer, Co-Founder of Playfish): Games the Next Billion will play * Alain De Taeye (Co-founder of Tele Atlas): Five Minutes into the Future * David Deutsch (Quantum Physicist): The Unknowable & how to prepare for it * Hasan Elahi (Interdisciplinary media activist, privacy artist): Hiding in Plain Sight * Peter Fenwick (Neuropsychiatrist): The Art of Dying Well * Carl Flink and Edward Oroyan (Choreographers and Artists): Black Label Movement - Zero Gravity Dance * Ken Haase (Engineer-scientist-philosopher): The Singularity is Here * Kaliya Hamlin (Identity Researcher): Identity, the Contexts of the Future * Charles Hazlewood (Conductor and advocate for access to orchestral music): Music of the Future * Andrew Hessel (Biologist and Author): Making Worlds * Peter Hinssen (Thought leader, the impact of technology on society): The Tiger and the Rock * Mikko H. Hypponen (Chief research officer at F-Secure Corporation in Finland): Defending the Net * Julie Meyer (Founder and CEO of Ariadne Capital, Founder - Entrepreneur Country, Managing Partner - Ariadne Capital Entrepreneurs Fund [ACE]): Entrepreneurs 2061 * Marc Millis (NASA deep space expert): Space Flight Predictions: After AI & Transhumanism * Raul Rojas (Specialist in artificial neural networks) Cars that Think * Rudy Rucker (Founder of the cyberpunk literary movement): Beyond Machines: The Year 3000 * Henrik Scharfe (Director at the Center for Computer-mediated Epistemology): Geminoid-DK * John Shirley (American fantasist, author of BioShock Rapture): False Singularities... * Rob Spence (Eyeborg and enhanced human): Eyeborg, the Enhanced Self * Luc Steels (Director of the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory): The Robot Culture * Jack Tuszynski (Computational biophysician): From eDx to eRx The digital future of personalized diagnostics and pharmaceuticals * Jacques Vallee (Computer scientist and ufologist, Mars mapping for NASA): A Theory of Everything (else)...

Advance Market Commitments

kliuless — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 08:42:20 -0800

Inducement Prizes -- Best known for the Ansari X Prize, the DARPA Grand Challenge and the Clay Mathematics Millennium Problems, inducement prizes have a long history, but their recent successes have led to increased government interest, viz. challenge.gov, and resulted in the development of vaccines, thanks in large part to the work of Michael Kremer.^* In 2001 Brad DeLong and Larry Summers wrote:

New institutions and new kinds of institutions -- perhaps even some that have been tried before, like the French government's purchase and placing in the public domain of the first photographic patents in the early nineteenth century (see Kremer (1998)) -- may well be necessary to achieve the fourfold objectives of (a) price equal to marginal cost, (b) entrepreneurial energy, (c) accelerating the cumulative process of research, and (d) providing appropriate financial incentives for research and development. The work of Harvard economist Michael Kremer (1998, 2000), both with respect to the possibility of public purchase of patents at auction and of shifting some public research and development funding from effort-oriented to result-oriented processes (that is, holding contests for private companies to develop vaccines instead of funding research directly), is especially intriguing in its attempts to develop institutions that have all the advantages of market competition, natural monopoly, and public provision.

cf. work being done by E. Glen Weyl (Hermann was his great uncle) --- ^*coincidentally there's a prize named after another Kremer

Suborbital

Artw — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 13:04:13 -0800

Virgin Galactic unveils SpaceShipTwo

SpaceX finally makes it to orbit

b1tr0t — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 16:52:37 -0800

SpaceX's fourth flight was successful. Scaled Composites' X-Prize winning SpaceShipOne made the first privately funded hop into space. SpaceX just took the next big step and inserted a dummy payload into orbit. Next, they will launch the much larger Falcon 9 and later test out the human-carrying Dragon. CEO Elon Musk also enjoys dabbling in banking and exotic electric cars.

To the moon, Google

Roman Graves — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 11:49:15 -0800

Google wants to send you to the moon.

It's like blogging, but in SPACE

klangklangston — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 16:41:36 -0800

First blog from space Milestones yet to be reached: First convoluted post about breakup from space; first fringe political views from space; first emo band in space (sponsored by MySpace, natch).

One small st.... yeah yeah

sourbrew — Mon, 08 Nov 2004 21:07:54 -0800

Move over X-Prize - in order to win the next big space prize($50 million) one will have to build a spacecraft capable of taking a crew of no fewer than five people to an altitude of 400 kilometers and complete two orbits of the Earth at that altitude. Then they have to repeat that accomplishment within 60 days.

Booooyah

sourbrew — Mon, 04 Oct 2004 08:56:57 -0800

And so it begins

Has Burt Rutan done it again?

canucklehead — Sun, 20 Apr 2003 07:38:50 -0800

Scaled Composites unveils a privately built spacecraft Could this be the leapfrog event that all of us sci-fi fans have been waiting for? If successful he will open up space for organizations other than the worlds most wealthy governments. Warp speed Mr. Sulu! (sorry getting a little carried away).

Good Old British Ingenuity ;-)

zeoslap — Tue, 26 Jun 2001 10:06:31 -0800

Good Old British Ingenuity ;-) Nasa Schmasha, Steve Bennet is out to claim the X-Prize ($10M) in his cement mixer, i mean um rocket....