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Intel: Human and computer intelligence will merge in 40 years
Written by: Keith Kleiner 1389 days ago
Add Intel’s CTO and senior fellow Justin Rattner to the growing list of singularity proponents according to an article from [...]
A Future Where Babies are Born Without Severe Defects
Written by: Keith Kleiner 1389 days ago
Nature recently published an article written by Armand Marie Leroi that opens with this interesting question: “Now that many people [...]
A “Manhattan Project” for the Next Generation of Bionic Arms
Written by: Keith Kleiner 1390 days ago
Related to the IEEE special report on prosthetic arms is a fascinating article on prosthetic limbs that can take their [...]
The Next Generation in Noninvasive Prosthetic Arms
Written by: Keith Kleiner 1390 days ago
In this piece from the IEEE special report on prosthetics we learn about Deka’s amazing noninvasive prosthetic arm. As noted [...]
Cloud Computing on the Rise – The World Mind is Upon Us
Written by: Keith Kleiner 1391 days ago
HP, Intel, and Yahoo announced today the creation of a global cloud computing infrastructure to be used by researchers across [...]
IEEE Spectrum Special Report on Prosthetic Arms
Written by: Keith Kleiner 1391 days ago
In Feb 2008 IEEE Spectrum released a fantastic special report on some of the latest work being done on prosthetic [...]
The Networked Pill From Proteus Biomedical
Written by: Keith Kleiner 1392 days ago
Michael Chorost published an article in MIT Technology Review about a networked pill from a company called Proteus Biomedical. The [...]
Michael Chorost – Cochlear Implants and World Wide Mind: The Coming Integration of Humans and Machines
Written by: Keith Kleiner 1392 days ago
Below is an interesting video of Michael Chorost speaking at Google June 30, 2008. Michael spends about half of the [...]
Tiny Robotic Tweezers Can Pick Up and Move Individual Cells!
Written by: Keith Kleiner 1392 days ago
The Short: Newscientist reports that researchers at the University of Toronto have created a microgripper device capable of grabbing and [...]
Laser Surgery Probe Precise Enough to Target Individual Cancer Cells
Written by: Keith Kleiner 1393 days ago
The University of Texis at Austin reports that Professor Adela Ben-Yakar and colleagues have developed a femtosecond laser “microscalpel” that [...]