Yearly Archives: 2009

Video of Airplane Laser Hitting Truck!

// For those of us living in fear of a deadly truck uprising, Maximum Overdrive must have scared someone, we can finally rest easy...

Mprize: Your Children Could Be Immortal

If living forever isn't enough motivation to get scientists to study longevity, maybe $3.8 million will work instead. That's the current size of the...

Guest Post: David Orban Reviews Singularity Summit 2009

This is a guest post written by entrepreneur and visionary David Orban.  He is an Advisor and the European Lead of the Singularity University. He...

iPhone Lets You Reserve, Find, and Open a Car

Like peanut butter and chocolate, Batman and Robin, or babies and puppies, some things are just more powerful when combined. So it is with...

Interview with Future Guru James Canton

Lots of people talk about the future, but few can reliably predict trends. James Canton has enough experience with the future that he helps...

Business Travel Declines With Telepresence Conference Calls

Business executives with an upcoming meeting have two choices: they can pack their things, travel to the airport, catch a flight, unpack in a...

Cool Video of ABB’s Smallest Industrial Robot

The world of industrial robots has welcomed the next master manipulator, the IRB20. From ABB (NYSE: ABB), the people who brought you the Flexpicker,...

BumpTop Brings Multi-Touch to The Computer Desktop

Do you ever wish you could just reach out and move the icons on your computer desktop around the same way you do with...

Project Indect Set To Monitor Europe Like it’s 1984

Excuse me a second while I put on my tinfoil hat and my super absorbent conspiracy pants. In a controversial move, the European Union...

Talking With A Surgeon Who Implanted Telescopes in Eyes

You may remember our earlier story on implantable miniature telescopes that helped treat blindness. Well, I had the good fortune of doing a follow-up...

DNA Electronics Has a Hand Held Genetic Testing Device – Interview with CEO!

If your computer and your DNA had a baby, it would be the SNP Dr. from DNA Electronics. SNP Dr. is the world's first...
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iCub Takes Humanoid Robotics Back to Its Infancy

When parents give birth to a child, it would seem pretty ridiculous to expect that baby to immediately live and function as well as...

Scanning Barcodes and Counting Calories – iPhone Has an App

Your iPhone can play so many roles in your life: tour guide, military commander, camerman, restaurant reviewer, bank teller, DJ, and now... nutritionist. The...

New Software Acts Like Human Brain to Find People in Videos

Now that we can program a computer to reason somewhat like a human brain, it seems a little cruel to then set that artificial...

StickyBot Mimics Geckos To Climb Walls

When naming robots, I want to encourage all of you researchers to go for the obvious choice, that way we know what we're getting....

IBM Celebrates 20 Years Since First Manipulating an Atom

It was twenty years ago when Don Eigler, a fellow at IBM, made history by moving individual atoms for the first time. Like any...

Honda’s Answer to the Segway: Motorized Unicycle U3X

Have you ever looked at a Segway and said, "hey that looks cool, but I wish someone would make a version with fewer wheels"?...

Study: Elderly With Less Vitamin D More Likely to Die

In case you were wondering about whether or not to take that walk outside today, a new study has shown that vitamin D is...

New Study Detects Oral Cancer Via RNA in Spit

I can't believe the number of things you can find out about yourself by spitting in a cup. A recent study at UCLA demonstrated...

TEDMED 2009 is Coming – The Best of the Best Will Speak on Medicine

It's hard to find a group of speakers that are as famous, as inspiring, or as successful as those found at TED. TED stands...

HIV/AIDS Vaccine Developed in Thailand by US Army

The Associated Press wire is all abuzz with the success of a recently completed trial to find a vaccine for HIV/AIDS. The 16,000+ person...

Ingestible Chip that Reminds You to Take Medicine begins trials

_ Not everyone likes taking their medicine. Between just plain forgetfulness and a dislike for taste or side effects, many long term prescription users routinely...

iGEM 2009: Synthetic Biology Competition Bigger than Ever this Halloween

Like some Frankenstein monster composed of space camp, graduate school, and science fair, iGEM is ready to spring to life this Halloween. The...
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Hexbugs – Robot Toys Mimic Animals (Videos)

Blame it on R2D2, or Bumblebee, but I have a soft spot in my heart for cute scrappy robots. Few robotic toys are as...

Implant that Shocks Brain to Treat Epilepsy in Clinical Trials

The medical uses of electrically shocking your brain have a dubious history and a worse portrayal in movies. One Flew Over A Cuckoo's Nest...

Health 2.0 Conference is Almost Here!

What will your healthcare look like in the next 5 to 10 years? Maybe that's a question not for legislatures, insurance companies, or even...

Z Corp – The Lamborghini of 3D Color Printing and Scanning (Videos)

The Hub likes to highlight those groups that do things open source and cheap, but sometimes it's good to look at the people who...

Kondo Robots – Now With Awesome Hands

Hobbyists have a tendency to use Kondo Robot kits in miniature death matches. That's not surprising considering that the model kit company sponsors a...

New Biosensor Finds Bacteria In Seconds

Drinking the water in a foreign country always seems like something of a gamble. Could be clean, could be a one way trip to...

Henry Markram’s Artificial Brain in a Computer (Video)

Many of you, like me, are excited about the possibilities of modeling and simulating the human brain. The Blue Brain Project, based in Switzerland,...

Military Surveillance Bot Jumps Over 25 Foot Walls

Holy crap that's cool! Earlier this week, Sandia National Labs debuted a four wheeled surveillance bot the size of a shoe box that can...

Tooth Transplanted into Eye Helps Cure Blindness

When you are blind and trying to restore your sight, you'll try anything. I mean, anything. US doctors have recently returned a woman's vision...

Gene Therapy Cures Color Blindness in Monkeys

If nature gave you some bum genes, you've got a chance of fixing them. Genetic treatments have allowed researchers to cure color blindness in...

Hard Rock Cafe in Vegas Has HUGE Interactive Video Wall

Trust Hard Rock Cafe to bring you the best of performance excess. Their newest branch opened in Las Vegas on September 8th, and...

Waterproof Nanotech Sand Could Change Deserts into Farms

Nanotechnology may conjure up images of tiny robots, or machines in our blood stream, but what about really cool dirt? DIME, a company based...

Car Running on Algae Fuel to Cross Country on Just 25 Gallons of Fuel

We usually don't report on the renewable energy or environmental impact beat, but sometimes you see something that is just too cool not to...

The Power of Massive Twitter Accounts – Or Lack Thereof

One of the most interesting and sensational aspects of Twitter are its mega accounts: Twitter accounts with huge numbers of followers.  These days mega...

Fat From Liposuction May Be Good Source for Stem Cells

If you've been hunting for useful stem cells, look no further than your butt. Work done at Stanford University's School of Medicine in California,...

Dutch Gas Station Has Robot Pumping Gasoline (Video)

An inventor in the Netherlands has merged the spirits of robotics with the only joy of New Jersey. No, I'm not talking about a...

World’s Oldest Person Gertrude Baines Dies at Age 115

In the search for longevity, we tend to focus on healthy lifestyles, miracle supplements, or potential technologies. It's easy to forget the people who...

MIT Helps Little Dog Navigate Rough Terrain

Sometimes robot videos just make me laugh. CSAIL at MIT has been working with Boston Dynamics' robot Little Dog, helping it navigate rough terrain...

Someone Made A Flexpicker Out of Legos – Video

Okay, I love Legos, I love robots, I even love robotic Legos, but I can't decide if the tribute FlexPicker Lego-bot is awesome or...

Illumina’s Genome Sequencing Service Gets First Customers

The race to provide you with access to your genome is really heating up. Industry leader Illumina (NASDAQ: ILMN) has completed its first genome...

New Preview of Transcendent Man with Director Barry Ptolemy

The Tribeca Film Festival releases daily videos to help viewers get an idea of what happens during their screenings. For those of you who...

The Scoop on Zirus from CEO David Perryman

If the Home Alone movies taught me anything (and that's doubtful to begin with) it's that defeating the bad guys goes hand in hand...

Cool New Vid of MakerBot Visiting Google NYC

  I'm pretty jealous of my friends at Google because they get to hear some of the most interesting people in the World give talks...

3 Genetic Variants Account for 20% of Risk for Alzheimer’s

  Two recent studies from Europe have shown that three genetic variants may be responsible for about 20% of the risk of developing Alzheimer's. This...

healthBase Medical Search Engine has Wins and Epic Fails

Surf the Internet these days and you're likely to drown in a sea of information. New "better than search" engines like Bing, and Wolfram...

Should I Save My Child’s Cord Blood?

As if you didn't have enough to worry about, now you've got to figure out if storing your child's umbilical cord blood might just...

Video of Kurzweil’s Latest Talk at Google

It's appropriate that a man who often talks about the democratizing effects of technology can be seen for free on the Internet. Ray Kurzweil...
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