Monthly Archives: February, 2010

Amazing Video of 3D Printer Art in Belgium

3D Printers are changing the way we approach fabrication and design, and I've just seen proof that they're impacting art as well. The M...

Robot Mice Solve Mazes With Blazing Speed (Video)

Sure, geneticists are making smarter rats with better memories, but can they run a maze in less than five seconds? The 30th All Japan...

Hand Gesture Controls Trying For Mainstream in 2010 (video)

The modern age of electronics is turning everyone into royalty. We have court jesters (TV), scholars (computers), and scribes (office software) at our command....

Willow Garage Creates Awesome Open Source Telepresence Robots

Fans of open source robotics need look no further than Willow Garage. Not satisfied with merely creating an amazing robot platform that plugs itself...

Window Washing Robots Take Over Dubai (video)

Dubai's endless streets of skyscrapers require an army of window washers. A Swiss company is hoping to replace that human workforce with a robotic...

Global Twitter: Tweets Translated Into Any Language

The universal translator was once a convenient fiction from Star Trek that let aliens break through language barriers, but now it's an awe inspiring...

Get More Magnesium, Get Smarter

Those crazy scientists, they keep finding ways to make rats smarter. Brainy rodents, however, may lead to the creation of smarter humans. According to...

Why Are You Buying that Air Mouse? Seriously, Don’t Do It.

I love gadgets and typically I favor praise over pessimism. Still, I recently found a whole genre of devices that I just don't understand....

Recording the Entire Life of an Animal

The lessons of a lifetime are powerful, even if that life belongs to a worm. Harvard scientists have developed a microfluidics system so that...

Mouse Skin Into Neurons Without Need for Pluripotent Stem Cells

Conventional wisdom tells us that you can't teach an old cell new tricks. Scientists at Stanford University, however, have been able to change adult...

Amazing Robot Wrestling From Japan (Video)

I'm a man who enjoys a good robot battle. Sure that will probably get me sent to the arena myself as soon as the...

UCSD and Kokoro Team Up To Make Terrifying Baby Robot

Researchers beware: if photos of your prototype robot are published too soon you may freak everyone out. The Machine Perception Lab at UC San...

Cyborg Insect Spies to Become Nuclear Powered

They don't have the pomp and flair of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, but Nuclear Cyborg Insect Spies are still shell-shocking researchers in the...
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