Monthly Archives: June, 2012

US Navy X-47B Robot Fighter Jet Completes First Phase Of Testing

The Navy's robotic fighter just got one step closer to earning its wings. The X-47B, an unmanned stealth attack jet, has completed the first...

Transcribe Videos And Make Them Searchable With Koemei

Wouldn't it be great to be able to search videos for what people are actually saying instead of relying on tags or descriptions? Koemei...

Abundance – The Future is Better Than You Think

This post is written by Singularity University Co-Founder and Chairman Peter Diamandis. We are all unknowingly addicts. Addicts of bad news. Twenty-four hours per day,...

Why I Believe That This Will Be The Most Innovative Decade In History

This post is written by Vivek Wadhwa, Vice President of Academics and Innovation at Singularity University. Many people believe that we’ve run out of ideas...

For New Movie, “The Prototype,” The Singularity Pits Man Against Machine

Gun fights, cop chase scenes, a damsel in distress, and a good man caught in a bad situation – exactly what you’d expect from...

Stop Using Petroleum: Propel Opens First Alternative Fuel Center, Installs Pumps At Dozens Of Gas Stations

There's nothing that says 'squandered potential' like a treadmill in the corner of a room being used as a clothes hanger...well, until now. A...

Machinima Scores $35 Million In Team Play With Google

If you've ever stumbled around on YouTube and landed on videogame footage with a snarky voiceover talking about ex-girlfriends, best snacks, and references to...

Mobile Payment Startup Square Growing Strong And Transforming Small Business

Some ideas are just too good to be true, and accepting credit card payments with a mobile device is one of them. Square, the...

Gut-On-A-Chip, The Latest In Scientists’ Attempt To Mimic Organs In The Lab

Scientifically speaking, the ideal test subject for medical research is the human being. But, for obvious reasons, we resort to the next best option:...

CEO Of Russian Email Company Fuels Robotics Revolution With $25 Million

You want a robotics revolution? Then get ready to drop $25 million. That is, of course, if you are Dmitry Grishin, the co-founder of...

“Helping a Billion People” Began Last Night – Singularity University Opens 4th Summer Program

Singularity University's fourth Graduate Studies Program began last night with excitement and aplomb. SU is the world's premier educational institution in the field of...

New Patch Makes Certain Skin Cancers Disappear

What if treating skin cancer was just a matter of wearing a patch for a few hours? At this year’s Society of Nuclear Medicine’s...

Ten-Year-Old Girl Receives Major Vein Grown From Her Own Stem Cells

A 10-year-old Swedish girl has had a potentially life-threatening condition alleviated by receiving a vein grown from her own stem cells. Her condition, called extrahepatic...

Singularity University 2012 – The Graduate Studies Program is Near and We Have Insider Coverage

Monday June 18th marks the start of Singularity University's 10 week Summer Graduate Studies Program. Based in NASA AMES in the heart of Silicon...

New Study Sheds Doubt On Omega-3’s Protection Against Dementia

It seems that omega-3 is getting a bad rap lately. Adding to research that put into doubt its protective attributes against heart and Alzheimer’s...

Non-invasive Prenatal Screen Draws Closer As Scientists Analyze Blood From Mother

Scientists have worked out a non-invasive way to sequence a fetus’ genome, using only blood from the mother and saliva from the father-to-be. The...

Personal Assistant Catfight Is Brewing As Evi Tries To Keep Pace With Apple’s Siri

It seems that Apple rivals are everywhere these days, and the world of personal assistant apps is no different. Since October of last year when...

Founders of Leap Motion: Our Amazing 3D Tracking Will Be Everywhere

In the past few weeks the Leap Motion device has sent shudders of delight through gadget lovers and computer designers alike by promising a...

The Transformer You’ve Always Dreamed Of Is Here

Man, where the heck was this when I was a kid? The Transformers I played with were die cast metal figurines that I posed,...

Awesome Video Explains Synthetic Biology

A succinct, yet powerful animation titled "Synthetic Biology Explained" shows the incredible potential of this emergent field and how engineering will transform the field...

London Crackdown Continues — Police Using Mobile Fingerprint Scanners To Nab Criminals On The Spot

Sherlock Holmes would likely be uncharacteristically doling out high praise to Scotland Yard for employing the latest technology for the Olympics. In preparation for this...

RoboJelly, The Unmanned Underwater Vehicle That Uses Water For Fuel

These are the kinds of jellyfish you don’t need to be afraid of. They look and swim like jellyfish, but they're actually water-dwelling fuel...

Inventor Of Biochip That Makes 10,000 Simultaneous Measurements Wins “Oscar For Inventors” – And $500,000

An inventor used the same principles of an integrated circuit to develop a ‘biochip’ that can perform nearly 10,000 independent simultaneous measurements – orders...

When Resumes Aren’t Enough: Prove To Employers That You Know Your Stuff With Smarterer

Say you’re an employer and you’re thumbing through the fresh stack of resumes. You spot some candidates that look pretty strong, have an impressively...

3D Printed Prosthetics Company Bespoke Acquired By 3D Systems

Just like the creations which emerge from their printers, 3D Systems is incrementally growing. The high-end 3D printer maker is continuing its effort to...

Paralyzed Man Regains Use Of Hands After Having Nerves Rewired

A quadriplegic man has regained partial control of his hands after doctors rewired the nerves in his arm. The 71-year-old patient suffered a spinal cord injury...

Companies Making The Necessary Transition From Industrial To Service Robots

The robotics industry is on the cusp of a major transformation. Today’s factory robots are solitary precision instruments, mimicking the repertoire of capabilities of...

Canon Camera Factory To Go Fully Automated, Phase Out Human Workers

In the second Star Wars prequel, Attack Of The Clones, C3PO walks into a droid factory and exclaims, "Machines building machines? How perverse!" Although it...

Buttons Morph Out Of Your Touchscreen With Tactus

So you love your touchscreen tablet, smartphone, and dashboard. But then you still have those moments when your fingers are missing that tactile feel,...

Screwed by ZionEyez? Vergence Labs Will Give You A Pair of Their Video Glasses for Free!

***As always: the opinions expressed in this article are those of the writer, and may not reflect the opinions of Singularity Hub, its advertisers,...

3D Printing Is The Future Of Manufacturing And Neri Oxman Shows How Beautiful It Can Be

To be on forefront of a cutting edge field like 3D printing, the skill set required is pretty stacked. You need to be a...

Meet ROBOT-Rx, The Robot Pharmacist Doling Out 350 Million Doses Per Year

Come to think of it, why do we still have pharmacists? I mean, how hard is it to count by “twos”? I’m just kidding...

Facial Recognition Software Distinguishes Between Real And Phony Smiles

Con-artists, deceivers, and fakers take note: feigning emotion to manipulate others is about to get a lot harder. Researchers at the MIT Media Lab have...

Quadcopters Make 3D Scans Of Historic Buildings

Humans continue to make their lives easier with drones. Small-sized unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are already chasing after wanton criminals, inspecting contaminated power plants,...
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