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Eric Giler Pimps Wireless Electricity at TED 2009
Written by: Aaron Saenz 892 days ago
Eric Giler wants to cut the cords out of your life. He’s the CEO of WiTricity, a company looking to [...]
China: “We Don’t Use Executed Prisoners for Organs…Not Anymore”
Written by: Aaron Saenz 892 days ago
The Chinese government has many strengths, but I don’t think that international PR is one of them. In a report [...]
Monkey DNA Swap Paves Way to Engineered Babies
Written by: Aaron Saenz 892 days ago
Great joke I just heard: How many monkeys does it take to make a baby? Answer: Three. Two for chromosomal [...]
Get Your Entire Genome From Complete Genomics For $5000
Written by: Aaron Saenz 895 days ago
It’s getting progressively cheaper to sequence your entire genome. Earlier in June, Illumina announced it would provide sequencing for close [...]
Helping 1 Billion People in Under Ten Years – Singularity U Completes Inaugural Year
Written by: Keith Kleiner 895 days ago
Today marks the final day of the inaugural 9 week summer session of Singularity University, and what a finish it [...]
Motoman Robot Does It All in Videos
Written by: Aaron Saenz 896 days ago
Teach a robot to fish and it will fish forever. Give a robot humanoid arms and it will build the [...]
Augmented Reality Is All Around You – Cool New Pics and Vids
Written by: Aaron Saenz 896 days ago
Like mushrooms after a rainy day, Augmented Reality (AR) is appearing everywhere. AR technology, which allows recorded and synthetic images [...]
Bionic Limbs With Artificial Intelligence
Written by: Aaron Saenz 896 days ago
They won’t give you superhuman strength, and they definitely don’t cost six million dollars, but the artificial limbs from Ossur [...]
Robots to Get Open Source Operating System
Written by: Aaron Saenz 897 days ago
E Pluribus Unum…robot? The International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) saw a lot of amazing robots and computer programs. [...]
Virtual Reality at SIGGRAPH
Written by: Aaron Saenz 897 days ago
With the amazing video recording and production systems commercially available, how hard can it be to create a realistic virtual [...]