Monthly Archives: March, 2010

StatSheet to Create Its Own Artificial Sports Journalists

A company that has already automated much of sports reporting is set to take the final step towards an artificial journalist. Statsheet collects sports...

HP’s Newest Flexible Displays Will Be Rolled Out Like Newspaper

At a recent meeting in Barcelona, Hewlett Packard's CTO Phil McKinney demonstrated their latest absurdly thin flexible display. Developed using Self-aligned Imprint Lithography (SAIL)...

Berkeley Gets Willow Garage Robot to Fold Towels – Simply Stunning Video

Robots just got roped into doing some light housework. Researchers at UC Berkeley used Willow Garage's PR2 robot to fold towels. The UCB programming...

Haptic Vest Lets You Feel Bullets and Knives In Video Games

If enormous flat screen TVs and surround sound aren't enough to satisfy your hunger for immersive gaming then maybe you need to be shot....

Automating Sports Coverage – Computers Control Cameras during Basketball Game

Researchers at the Universite Catholique de Louvain (UCL) in Belgium have successfully developed software that can track basketball players and the ball as they...

Robots Battle With Guns and Skill in Mech Warfare (Video)

Fan boys everywhere dream about riding inside robots to do battle. Now that fiction has inspired some real world robotics with Mech Warfare. 1/24th...

US Court Strikes Down Patent on Human Genes – Huge News for Genomics

In what is sure to become a landmark case for genomics, a US District Court Judge in New York (Robert Sweet) has ruled that...

Ipad Mania: Apple Releases Ten Ipad Guided Tour Videos

With the release of the Apple ipad just days away consumer speculation and interest in the device is rampant.  Demand has been so high...
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Brain Preservation Technology Prize: A Proposal for Immortality?

Of all the paths we may take to longevity and immortality, Ken Hayworth's may strike you as the hardest to accept. This postdoctoral fellow...

Healthcare Bill Requires Restaurants to Display Calories on Menus

The recent US healthcare reform bill has a lot on its plate. Then, again, so do Americans. One of the provisions of the bill...

Science Journals Need to Enter 21st Century, Social Networking Not Yet the Answer

The accepted system for exchanging scientific information is publishing in a prestigious scientific journal. That journal system has been around since 1665 - it...

Phenomenal Touchscreen Wall Demos Gigapixel Photos, Video Games

Students at the University of Tromso in Norway have built an amazing multitouch wall with a mind-blowing 7168x3072 resolution - 22 megapixels! The WallScope...

Gesture Technology Circuit Board Fuels Interesting Interactive Cube Concept (Video)

A new circuit board for gesture controls from Germany-based IDENT Technology could help every electronic gizmo in your home respond to the smallest twist...

Twitter About To Roll Out Translation Of Tweets To Other Languages?

Twitter appears to be testing out a new feature that will allow you to automatically translate tweets into other languages.  It was only a...

Video of Dean Kamen at FIRST Robotics Competition

Dean Kamen's FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) is a vibrant collaboration of high school students, teachers, and sponsors that pits teams against one another in...

Cool Video of Aikon II Robot Drawing a Face With a Pen

For several years, Patrick Tresset and Frederic Fol Leymarie of Goldsmiths University have been trying to teach a machine how to draw. The Aikon...

An Insider’s Look At Singularity University

This is a guest post by Shawna Pandya, an alumnus of the inaugural GSP’09 summer session at Singularity University, and a two-time Teaching Fellow...

Nanowire Polymer Film Turns Any Surface into a Multitouch Interface

Portuguese engineers have taken us one step closer to fusing the digital and physical worlds. Displax, a fledgling tech company in Braga, has developed...

Coverage of Caltech’s “Cancer Fighting” Nanoparticles is Over-Hyped and Premature

Maybe you've read about the amazing "cancer-killing nanobots" from Caltech that use RNA as a weapon. They've been making waves in news media all...

Non Stop Videos of the 17th Robo One Competition

It's a well known fact: robots love to wrestle. I mean, why else would there be so many robot fighting competitions? The 17th Robo-One...

iPhone App From ScanR Puts Scanner and Fax Machine in Your Hands

Smart phones are becoming mobile business centers. Forget about texts, phone calls, emails, and web browsing, phones can now handle the ultimate office technology:...

Book Flipping Scanner Records 200 Pages in a Minute! (Video)

Printed media may be dying, but that doesn't mean it can't experience a digital afterlife. Book scanning technology is allowing companies like Google to...

Kurzweil Predictions on Wikipedia – The Future Anyone Can Edit

Ray Kurzweil's made a name for himself by forecasting the future. He foresaw the fall of the Soviet Union, the rise of the Internet,...

Child Receives Trachea Organ Transplant Created With Own Stem Cells

Doctors at the Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) along with colleagues at the University College London, the Royal Free Hospital, and Careggi University Hospital...

‘Cure’ for Multiple Sclerosis Promising, Trials Coming Soon

A few months ago we mentioned how Paolo Zamboni developed an amazing possible "cure" for Multiple Sclerosis (MS) that's based on a radical new...

Hilarious Hacked Device Electrocutes You for Thinking (Video)

In further proof that idle engineers are the most evil demographic in the world, I present to you the "Most Painful Toy Hack Ever"....

FDA Approval for Stem Cell Treatment Trials for Lou Gherig’s and Heart Disease

Stem cell treatments continue to gain ground in the United States. Louisiana based TCA Cellular Therapy has 6 FDA clinical trials in progress, the...

Forget IQ, Collective Intelligence is the New Measure of Smart (video)

Do you know your IQ, that little number that's supposed to measure how smart you are? Forget it. Individual intelligence is old news, collective...

Cool Video of Industrial Robot Riding a Rail, Weaving Through Wine Glasses

The modern factory is the natural habitat for the latest generation of industrial robots, and we're seeing some impressive results from that environment's natural...

Artificial Retina Restores Basic Vision To The Blind – The Argus III

Restoring vision to the blind is one of the epic promises of technology, sort of like flying cars, ray guns, and a lovable robot...

Teams of Military Robots To Compete in Australia for Money and Contracts (video)

Soldiers have to use teamwork to explore their surroundings and accomplish their mission. Robots, which are becoming increasingly important parts of militaries all over...

Robot Journalist Takes Pictures, Asks Questions, Publishes Online

Robots are after my job. Researchers at the Intelligent Systems Informatics Lab (ISI) at Tokyo University have developed a journalist robot that can autonomously...

Robot Gymnast Performs Again! Now With Automatic Hands (video)

Robot enthusiast Hinamitetu (aka Taro Tetubou) is on the road to building the perfect artificial gymnast. It's a long journey. His last creation, the...

Incredible Video of Using Light to Control the Brain of Mice

What do you get when you combine microorganisms and fiber optics? Mind control over mice and rats. Karl Deisseroth and his team at...

Android Touchscreen Module to Invade Home and Office Appliances

The Android platform is reaching beyond mobile phones and is poised to conquer all the electronic machines in your home. San Francisco based Touch...

Mark Roth Has Key to Suspended Animation, Closer To Immortality

As anyone who reads science fiction will tell you, suspended animation is where your body is put into a state of preservation, not really...

fMRI Reads the Images in Your Brain – We Know What You’re Looking At

If you had to nominate one modern technology as a mind reading device, the fMRI looks like a good bet. By measuring blood flow...

Clothes With Matrix Codes Put Information Up Front

Matrix codes are like bar codes on steroids. To the naked eye, they look deceptively like a series of dots in a rectangular pattern....

Justin Bieber and the Rising Importance of Accelerating Media

Two years ago almost no one knew who he was, now he's had an ongoing run of Top 40 hits, a platinum album, and...

Adam The Robot Scientist Makes Its First Discovery

When it comes to being a scientist, Adam is quite the standout. No, he is not a Nobel Prize Laureate or even a prodigy....

Robot Surgery, Thy Name is DaVinci

Robotic surgery is experiencing explosive growth in America’s operating rooms, and the unquestioned industry leader in this field is the DaVinci robot, made by...

Eye Popping Pics of Cyborg Animals from Photoshop Contest

The Internet loves animals, and it loves photoshop. Worth1000.com decided to harness that double love and start a Photoshop contest to see who could...

Watch This 5 Minute Video Explain Why Stem Cell Research Has to Take so Long.

Hans Keirstead used embryonic stem cells to help paralyzed rats walk again. His research is the basis for the first FDA approved clinical trial...

Slick Looking Unlocked GSM Watchphone Available for $199 (video)

I geeked out this past summer when I saw LG's cool watch phone. Sadly, it was only available in the UK. Well someone at...

Willow Garage Shares Specs for TeleRobot, Takes It To Show and Tell at School

Wouldn't you have loved to be the kid who brought a real life working robot to school for show and tell? Willow Garage delighted...

Samsung To Launch New Robot Vacuum in Europe…but it’s no Neato (video)

Samsung's newest robot vacuum, the Navibot, looks and acts like an improved Roomba. It sports the same round shape but has special whip-like brushes...

New Study Shows Your Ability To Recognize Faces is Genetic

Scientists at the University College of London, Harvard University, and elsewhere have discovered that not only is the part of your brain responsible for...

Mitsubishi Smallest Robot Arm Builds Lego Van (video)

Mitsubishi Electric debuted a cool new robot arm at iREX 2009 that can work in small spaces and still get things done. The RV-2SQ...

Four Great Science Fiction Authors Weigh In on the Singularity (video)

Let's face it. Most what we think we know about the Universe may come from science, but most of what we think we know...

Google Public Data Explorer Turns Boring Statistics into Amazing Videos of Graphs

Type "unemployment rate California" into Google and you'll notice a little graph pops up in the search results. That graph is part of a...
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