Augmenting Reality

The Naked Scientists Podcast

Dr Chris Smith

Science Radio, Natural Sciences, Engineering, Science, Medicine, Life Sciences, Technology, Health & Fitness, Naked Scientists

4.6 • 893 Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2010

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

The high-tech scanners that can home in on chemicals produced by cancers, how bats and dolphins share genes for echolocation and why barefoot runners have a smoother track record. Also this week, augment your reality: find out how new technologies can add extra information to the way you see the world by making a mobile phone into a virtual tour guide or even a pocket mechanic! Plus, how virtual reality worlds are helping to rehabilitate stroke victims, and, in a theatrical twist, for Kitchen Science Dave discovers the workings of a baffling stage illusion... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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0:00.0	Boldly going where no science show has gone before.
0:05.0	The Naked Scientists.
0:09.0	Hello and welcome to Valzler and that's me.
0:15.0	Coming up this week we'll be hearing about a new trick to pinpoint
0:22.0	cancerous tissue in the prostate, how bats and
0:24.8	dolphins share a gene for echo location, how barefoot runners have a smoother ride, and
0:30.8	we'll be finding out about the fish with the wonky mouth.
0:34.0	And we'll also be finding out how scientists have discovered a factor that helps to stop nerve cells from degenerating,
0:40.0	which could layer of information to your world. Coming up we'll find out how it works and what it
0:54.6	could be capable of from helping you to find your nearest train station to
0:58.6	helping mechanics work more efficiently. Tom Drummond will be joining us to explain how it works and why we'll be seeing it both
1:05.2	in handheld and head-mounted devices in the near future.
1:09.6	And we'll find out from Louis Arguello how augmented reality could stop the problem of repair manuals floating
1:15.1	about the International Space Station.
1:17.1	Imagine that.
1:18.1	Plus Mira discovers how virtual reality could help with rehabilitation after a brain injury or a stroke and
1:24.0	Dave shows us some famous ghostly illusions in kitchen science.
1:28.6	That's all to come on today's naked scientists so if you want to get in touch with any questions or
1:34.0	comments we would love to hear from you. Our email address is Chris at the
1:38.2	naked scientists.com or if you're using Twitter just tweet at naked scientists.
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