Monthly Archives: September, 2010

Whoa! HRP-4 Humanoid Robot Walks, Moves Just Like A Real Human

Kawada and AIST continue to promote their newest bipedal robot, the HRP-4, with clips of its smooth motions and graceful movements. The streamlined HRP-4...

Raytheon’s New XOS 2 Exoskeleton Looks Cool, but It’s Not Iron Man (video)

Blame it on Tony Stark's ego, but Raytheon's debut of the XOS 2 Exoskeleton focuses too much on the Iron Man theme. Raytheon (via...

Willow Garage Teaches Robot Not To Crush Puny Humans (Video)

If Sam Waterson taught me anything it's that I need to fear the powerful grip of robots. Because robots are made of metal...and they're...

Kurzweil’s Blio Finally Launches – Here Is A First Look (FAIL)

Today K-NFB Reading Technology, backed by futurist Ray Kurzweil, officially released its highly anticipated Blio e-book platform for download to the public.  Yet in...

‘Ten Years’ Apple Infographic: Moore’s Law At Its Best

What's the difference between the high-end iMac desktop computer of 2000 and the iPhone 4G of 2010? A few pixels, £1000, and a lot...

EU Confronts Transhumanism With Technolife Project

Europen Union nations hope to foster meaningful debate on ethics by showing people pop culture and SciFi inspired videos and getting them to comment...

Festo Turns Elephant’s Trunk into Awesome Robot Arm (video)

Smart engineers copy ideas. Great engineers copy from nature. Festo's Bionic Handling Assistant is a robot arm modeled on an elephant's trunk, and it...

Is Canada’s 3D Girl ‘Speed Bump’ A Stupid Idea? (video)

Imagine cruising through a school zone when you see something strange in the road. It looks like a little girl laying down, but her...

Khan Academy and FIRST Among Winners of $10M from Google

Five innovative groups around the world just hit a $10 million payday. Google recently announced the winners in their Project 10^100, a global search...

Iris Scanning Set To Secure City in Mexico, Then the World

The million-plus citizens of Leon, Mexico are set to become the first example of a city secured through the power of biometric identification. Iris...

The Troubles With Modern Sleep: Myths, Memory, and Mortality

Are you getting eight hours of uninterrupted sleep every night? ...Why? Though many of us consider the 8 hour (really, 7 to 9 hour)...

The Hospital Robot With a Bedside Manner (video)

Not every robot needs to be a humanoid, but we tend to respond better when it is. Muratec, Keio University, and AIST have teamed...

I, Bank (or When Computers Take Over Wall Street)

This is a guest post written by Adam Braus.  Adam blogs about Fiscal Localism and Universal Banking over at One Is Not Enough Who wouldn’t give...

Gene Therapy Looks To Have Cured Man With Blood Disease

Gene therapy is making a difference in the lives of patients. A phase I/II clinical study run by researchers at Harvard Medical School and...

Salim Ismail: How Will Accelerating Technologies Affect You? (video)

"If you're building a product or service using today's technologies you may be out of date by the time you get to market." ...

What Does It Mean When Opera Goes to the Ballpark? (video)

This Friday will mark the fifth time that the San Francisco Opera simulcasts its performance to AT&T Park, home of the San Francisco Giants...

Testing Your Blood Sugar with Your iPhone

Multinational pharmaceutical giant Sanofi Aventis just unveiled it's latest diabetes technology: a stand alone blood glucose monitor that can plug directly into your iPhone...

7mm Thick Pico Projector Can Produce a 70 inch Image (video)

Japan's Explay Ltd recently announced that it has begun to ship its pico projector engines to developers around the world. The Explay Projector Engine...

Prostate Cancer – To Test or Not To Test

New studies in prostrate cancer screening reveal conflicting views about the importance of getting men tested for the disease. Research headed by Hans Lilja...

Did A Russian Scientist Really ‘Cure Aging’ or Is It Just a Fluke?

Imagine a pill that you could take every day that would extend your by years and keep you healthy for longer. You'd probably pay...

How Social Networks Can Predict Epidemics And Control the World (video)

Facebook might be the key to fighting a flu epidemic. And obesity. And crime. And...everything. Nicholas Christakis at Harvard Medical and James Fowler at...

Genetically Modified Salmon Could Be On Your Plate Soon

This past Sunday (September 19th) the US FDA held one of the final meetings needed to approve genetically modified salmon for human consumption. If...

Chris Anderson, Head of TED, Forsees Crowd Accelerated Innovation (video)

Five hundred years ago, the printing press marked a rise in the power of the written word over human speech. Now, Chris Anderson thinks...

Stickybits Is Like Twitter For the Internet of Things (video)

Imagine every object with a barcode suddenly gaining a Twitter feed, but with photos, and videos as well as comments and links. That, in...

Badass Quadrotor Flies Through Hoops, Hauls Wood, Spies On You

Holy crap, the quadrotors at UPenn's GRASP lab are cool. Grad student Daniel Mellinger has had a busy summer with his autonomous flying drones,...

Free E-Reader Blio Announces September 28th Launch Date

The battle of the e-readers is about to get a new contestant. K-NFB just announced that their anticipated Blio e-reading program will launch on...

Quadrotor Robot with Open Source Computer Vision Flies Itself (video)

What's the old saying - tell a robot where to fly and you help it for a day, teach a robot how to fly...

“Corn Sugar” And Lame Attempts To Mislead You About Food

High fructose corn syrup could soon be known as 'corn sugar'. The Corn Refiners Association in the US has been on a media campaign...

Kawada Unveils New Athletic Looking Bipedal Robot – HRP4 (video)

It's always exciting when you add a new member to the family, especially if it's a robot. Kawada and AIST have just unveiled their...

‘Artificial Skin’ Out of California is Over-Hyped (video)

Even the coolest lab work is often years from practical applications. That's what the media seemingly forgot in regards to recent developments in 'artificial...

Japan’s Taking Its Virtual Girlfriend on a Real Date

Dude, have you seen Japan's girlfriend? She's totally hot for an imaginary chick. The resort town of Atami, Japan hit upon a remarkable way to...

South African Nanotech ‘Tea Bag’ To Filter Water for Pennies

Provide people cheap access to clean water and you could save billions of lives. South Africa may use tea bags to do just that....

In the Debate Over RFID Tracking, Children are The Testing Ground

RFID tags are already embedded in millions of products you buy...and your children could be next. In the ongoing debate over privacy and surveillance,...

San Francisco Stays BioCurious

How would you like to perform cutting edge biology experiments out of your garage? That's what the people at BioCurious did until they grew...

NY Times To Stop Printing. Old Media is Dead, Long Live New Media

Stop the presses! At the recent IFRA Conference in London, New York Times Chairman Arthur Sulzberger jokingly admitted that his company would eventually stop...

Great Video of Wheelchair Controlled By Human Thought with AI Guidance

You know telekinesis, right - moving objects with your thoughts? Let's talk techno-kinesis - moving machines with your thoughts. There's a really great new...

Honda’s Exoskeletons Help You Walk Like Asimo (video)

Honda's Asimo robot was taught how to walk like a human, and now its technology is returning the favor. The Japanese mega-corp has two...

India Launches Universal ID System with Biometrics

India has launched an ambitious program to fit each of its 1.2 billion residents with an Unique identification number (UID). Each number will be...

iPads Instead of Textbooks – Trial Underway in California Middle Schools (video)

400 middle school students in California are about to get an unexpected back to school present: a shiny new Apple iPad. Textbook manufacturer Houghton...

Miraculous Fingertip Regrowing Powder Strikes Again! (Video)

Deepa Kulkarni lost the tip of pinky finger in an door slamming accident, but don't worry, it grew back. The Davis, California resident was...

Is the Khan Academy The Future of Education? (video)

Will the school of the future need teachers? Probably. Will it need classrooms and textbooks? Hopefully not. To see what will replace them you...

Stanford’s Stickybot is Climbing Faster, Human Project Coming Soon? (video)

Geckos may be good at selling car insurance, but they're even better at climbing walls. Which is why Stanford's Biomimetics and Dexterous Manipulation Lab...

Singularity University To Hold Free Webinar Sept 13

On September 13, 2010 Singularity University will be hosting a free webinar showcasing the ambitious projects to improve the world developed by students from...

TV is a Dinosaur, The Internet is a Meteor, Google TV is the Fallout

Video killed the radio star. The internet is killing TV as we know it. Why should you have to wait to watch a show...

iRobot’s Military Swarm of Wifi Bots Flips Into Action

The army of the future may rely as much on WiFi as they do on weapons. To that end, iRobot has built the diminutive...

Scientists Closer to Reading Words From Your Brain

Those unable to speak may one day be able to have their words read directly out of their brains. Researchers at the University of...

80,000 and Counting, Brain Implants on the Rise World Wide

Those fighting conditions like dystonia, Parkinson's Disease, and chronic pain have a way of alleviating their symptoms - direct electric shocks to their brain....

Willow Garage’s PR2 Robots are Officially On Sale for $400k With Possible Discounts

How much would you pay for a robot that can plug itself in, beat you in a game of pool, and fetch you a...

Controlling Your Mobile Phone…With Your Mind! (video)

Researchers in the Mobile Sensing Group at Dartmouth University have developed a cool new way for you to call a friend: think about him....

Stephen Hawking Says God is Unnecessary – New Book

The renowned physicist Stephen Hawking has tackled describing black holes and the history of the universe. Now it seems he wants to explain the...
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