Monthly Archives: November, 2009

The Present and Future of Military – Talon Robot (Video)

Expendable. It's a word that is rapidly disappearing from use when describing soldiers in the field. Instead, that label has fallen on the shoulders...

The Next Generation of 3D Printer: RepRapII (Video)

Innovators are rarely satisfied with the first draft, even when that draft is revolutionary. RepRap, the open source 3D printer team that hopes to...

Manipulating Just One Gene Makes a Smarter Rat

According to recently published results in PLoS One, researchers at the Medical College of Georgia (MCG) and East China Normal University have genetically engineered...

Brain Controlled Robot Follows Mental Commands (Video)

Ask any super villain and he'll tell you - good robotic henchmen are hard to find. That's why I love the robot from Rajesh...

Brainport Lets The Blind See With the Tongue (Video)

Part of the reason I love my job is that I get to see things that I would never have dreamed of or even...

Genome Study Reveals New Links to Parkinson’s

Affordable genetic testing continues to enable scientists to find exciting new discoveries that may help doctors predict, prevent, and treat disease. Two teams of...

Universal Translators Are All Around Us (Video)

When watching Star Trek, I was always amazed that the aliens all spoke English. Writers explained this happy coincidence by the presence of a...

Swarm Bots Evolve Communications Skills and Deceit (Video)

Oh what a tangled web a robot weaves when it first practices to deceive. S-bots, the swarm bots developed in Lausanne, Switzerland at EPFL...

Larry Smarr Video From Singularity University Available Online

Didn't get enough of the Singularity University's summer session videos? Another Singularity University presentation is now available for you to watch online! As far as...

Augmented Reality Does Time Travel Tourism

Great scott! Augmented reality is taking tourists and thrusting them back in time to experience the sights (and sometimes sounds) of the ancient world....

HUBO-2 Robot Shows Off (Video)

The Beatles and The Monkees. Scooby-Doo and Josie and The Pussycats. Transformers and Gobots. It seems like whenever someone creates something amazing, someone else...

Daniel Kraft – The Future of Medicine

There's some amazing things coming down the healthcare pipeline and Daniel Kraft knows a little about all of them. Kraft teaches at Stanford University,...

New Software To Assist Doctors in Making Decisions

In the traditional world of medical research, it takes many years for techniques and discoveries to transition from the lab to the hospital. With...

Dan Barry – The Future of Robotics (Singularity University Video)

There are people out there who's list of accomplishments simply seem unbelievable. Dan Barry has a MD PhD and a doctorate in electrical engineering...

Honda’s ASIMO Turns 9, Celebrates With Cardboard Cake

Oh, robots, they grow up so fast, don't they? No wait a minute...they don't. Well, anyway, Honda celebrated the ninth birthday of their famous...

NASA Develops Tricorder: Adapts iPhone to Detect Chemicals

"Mmmm...what's that smell...cookies? Campfire? Nerve gas? I know, I'll just ask my phone." A researcher at the NASA Ames Center has developed a proof of...

Andrew Hessel’s Singularity University Talk on Synthetic Biology (Video)

Have you ever wished life was more like a video game? Well, Andrew Hessel is here to tell you that your biology is already...

Kurzweil Keynote at Singularity University Exec Program (Video)

Why in the world would anyone believe in all this Singularity nonsense? If you have your doubts about the exponential growth of technology continuing indefinitely,...

Audeo Lets You Talk or Control Wheelchair With Thoughts (Video)

There's something eerie and amazing about the way that Tom Coleman travels in his wheelchair. You see, Tom isn't paralyzed and yet he's not...

Swarm of Underwater Drones To Help Explore Ocean

Release the drones! Jules Jaffe from UC San Diego's Scripps Institute just received $1 million in funding from the National Science Foundation to build...

Virtual News Cast – Are Any Journalists Safe From Automation? (videos)

If you're majoring in journalism, you may want to switch to computer science. Virtual newscasts, though primitive, are making major inroads into the field....

Haptic Ring Lets You Feel Objects in Augmented Reality (Video)

The first thing that we often give children to hold is a stuffed animal so it makes sense that the first virtual object that...

The Brain According to Henry Markram (Video)

Once you start building a brain in a box you get two things: admission into the Mad Scientists' Club, and a chance to speak...

SixthSense Augmented Reality Device Goes Open Source

Have you ever looked at an object in a display window and wondered how much it cost? Or have you seen someone you've met...

Wolfram Alpha, iPhone has an App for That

You know, if computers ever take over the world, it's not going to be through a super smart spaceship like HAL, or a global...

Biodegradable Silicon-Silk Circuits Implanted in Mouse

Have you ever dreamed of being a cyborg? Sure, it's a natural part of going through puberty, but it's only ever going to be...

UCLA Team Creates New Kind of Mobile Phone Microscope

In the field of global medicine, laboratories are a precious commodity. Yet even if a remote village doesn't have access to a local lab...

Artificial General Intelligence 2009 Conference Videos Up on Vimeo

Sure, there are narrow AI programs that can detect credit card fraud, or help a plane land safely, or even translate languages. But where's...

iRobot Announces Healthcare Bot

TEDMED 2009 just passed and with it came some news about the future of robotics and healthcare. iRobot (Nasdaq: IRBT), the company that brought...

Guest Post: Top 10 Innovations at TEDMED

I spent last week in San Diego for TEDMED, the medical version of the TED conference. It was an incredible experience for me, almost...

Singularity University’s Executive Program In Full Swing

Where have all the forward thinking business executives gone? They're in school. We warned you it was coming, and now it's here: Singularity University's...

Review of Vitamin D Video Beta Launch – It’s Pretty Awesome

A few weeks ago I discussed Vitamin D Video, the software system which acts like the human brain to find people and objects of...

Toumaz Digital Plaster to Wirelessly Monitor Patient Vital Signs Hits Trials

Patients at a hospital seem to be caught in a web of wires, sticky pads, and monitors, but that may all change very soon....

Is Software Set to Replace Sports Journalists?

Sports writers are sharpening their pencils and maliciously eying their laptops as researchers in the Intelligent Informations Lab at Northwestern University announce that they've...

Turn The Side of a Building Into an Arcade with Pinwall (Video)

What do you get when you combine massive video projectors and lots of time? A pinball machine you can play on the side of...

Femisapien – Wowwee’s Female Toy Robot (Videos)

Wow. Just wow. I'm not sure what it says about robotics, toys, or gender studies, but the new Femisapien from Wowwee is ready to...

Take a Virtual Trip Through The Brain of a Mouse

It may sound like the premise for the next roller coaster ride at Disney Land, but UC San Diego is serious about letting you...

Complete Genomics and ISB Team Up for Huge Whole Genome Study

The era of genetic studies based on whole genome sequencing is definitely upon us. According to a recent press release, Complete Genomics will provide...

Adept Quattro Becomes World’s Fastest Robot (Video)

Watch out Flexpicker, there's a new quick draw robot in town. According to the latest press release from Adept Technology(NASDAQ: ADEP) their new Quattro...

ROPID Robot Runs, Skips, and Jumps to Your Voice Commands

Some robots get all the girls. Not only is ROPID one of the only toy-sized robots that can run and jump, it likes to...

GE Reveals Phone-Sized Ultrasound Device

The first time I saw this thing I thought, "Holy crap! An iPod mated with an X-ray machine." General Electric (NYSE: GE) CEO and...

Singularity Summit 2009 Videos Available Online

Tired of just hearing about exciting conferences about the future? Do you want to know what it's like to see some of the smartest...

Enter The Yottabyte – One Billion Petabytes!

I just saw a story about the NSA gearing up a datacenter to potentially hold a yottabyte of surveillance data. The whole surveillance...

Print on Your Wall With The Muralizer

Despite Singularity Hub's blogginess (yes it's a word) most of my posts aren't inspired by personal  real life events. Well today is different. After...

Harvard Grows Heart Tissue, Watches it Beat

It's Alive! Researchers at Harvard University and Massachusetts General Hospital have succeeded in taking embryonic stem cells from mice and growing cardiovascular tissue. The...

Remote Controlled Robot Pet Sitter

Okay, I rarely spend time looking at "concept machines" but this one just made me chuckle enough that I had to share it. In...

Muscle Sensing Enhances Microsoft Surface (Video)

How Love is Like A Computer #234: Reading someone's mind often means paying closer attention to their body. Researchers at the University of Washington, University...
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