Cat technology has never been this revolutionary (terrible, terrible pun… just read on) since the advent of the laser pointer and, before then, bubbles. ...
Everybody has a database: staffers, bankers, law enforcers and now geneticists, too. The PGP is not a college fraternity (rush Lambda Lambda Lambda) but...
Tired of using thumbs to endlessly update Twitter on a cell phone? Well, worry no longer about finger injuries from marathon tweeting: the University...
Modern medicine may not have reached the level of the Bionic Woman, but intestinal implants are turning more and more diabetics into low-grade cyborgs....
You think that these robots would start investing in a GPS system. Recently, Singularity Hub covered the Tweenbot, a simple cardboard-wrapped automaton that was...
The robot invasion is nowhere close to over. Singularity Hub has reported on a multitude of autonomous machines (the autonomous forklift, KIVA, Asimo) that...
When Descartes said "I think therefore I am" he probably didn't know that he was answering a security question. Using behavioral or physical characteristics...
To those unfamiliar with Japanese culture, certain trends may seem unusual: manga and anime, the love affair with robotics, tea ceremonies...computerized talking toilets. Yeah,...
Blue-collar robots don't really get the press they deserve. These dedicated, well designed, and efficient workers provide unparalleled improvements in almost every major industry....
Microscopic workers of the world unite! There's a trend floating around laboratories: designing tiny mechanisms that can build other devices from the atomic level...
Somewhere between the harshness of reality and the fantasy of virtual reality lies the domain of Augmented Reality (AR). The French company Total Immersion's...
Nanobots the size of living cells swimming around our bodies, doing our bidding to fight disease, make repairs, and augment our abilities? Futurists and...
Goodbye freshman seminars, beer-pong, student loans, and your cap and gown. Hello online coursework, digital textbooks, lecture mp3's, and a radically new form...
Boom! That is the sound skittering across the information industry landscape this week as IBM has suddenly stepped into the ring, proposing that its...
"Does God exist? Well, I would say, 'Not yet." --- Ray Kurzweil, Transcendent Man, 2009
It's not every documentary that predicts humanity will someday create...
If you're like me, Jurassic Park taught you two valuable lessons: genetic engineering has to be dangerous, and the coolest scientists are chaos obsessed...
This week Transcendent Man, a documentary about the life and vision of singularity evangelist Ray Kurzweil, is enjoying its world premier at the Tribeca...
Pop quiz! What's weirder than dead organs sitting around in glass jars? Live organs moving around in glass domes.
For patients with late-stage respiratory diseases,...
Nothing transforms scientific gurus into excited SciFi geeks quicker than the mention of a robotic exoskeleton. Iron Man, RoboTECH, Exosquad, Starship Troopers (the book),...
