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Monthly Archives: March, 2010

Kurzweil Critiques Avatar – Technology Applied Unevenly, Cast as Enemy

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Futurist Ray Kurzweil spends most of his time thinking about how technology will develop in the coming years, so it's no wonder he took...
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Tron Legacy Trailer Released With Daft Punk Sound Score

Singularity Hub Staff -
The cult classic movie Tron from 1982 is set to get a facelift this year with the release of a sequel movie called Tron...

Russia Is Making Flying Saucers. DUN-DUN-DUN!

Aaron Saenz -
Russia's latest endeavor to produce commercial grade lighter-than-air aircraft seems a little strange. The "aerostatic thermoballasted vehicle" from Locomo Sky looks like something straight...

Kevin Warwick, Once a Cyborg, Now Prophet of the Man-Machine Future

Aaron Saenz -
He has used his mind to control a robotic hand, he has sent his thoughts across the Atlantic and clenched a mechanical fist, and...

GlowCap Uses Light, Sound, Embarrassment to Get You To Take Your Pills (video)

Aaron Saenz -
The New England Healthcare Institute estimates that patients not taking their pills when they should costs the US $290 billion dollars a year. Vitality...

Exclusive: Doctors Skirt FDA To Provide Human Stem Cell Therapy

Aaron Saenz -
The FDA has yet to approve stem cell therapies for general use in medicine, but that hasn't stopped doctors in Colorado from providing them...

Recycling Robot Tackles Plastic Problem in Japan with Lasers

Aaron Saenz -
Mitsubishi, IDEC, and Osaka University have teamed up to help with Japan's recycling problems. They've built a 1.7m x 2.1m (5'6" x 6'9") robot...

Get Ready To Live Past 100

Aaron Saenz -
The fastest growing age group in the industrialized world is the centenarian club. Pushing past 100 used to be a rare feat, but most...

Stem Cells Heal Dog on Local News. Will Humans Ever Get Their Turn? (video)

Aaron Saenz -
Chances are your dog has access to stem cell treatments more advanced than your own. A Fox News affiliate in Atlanta has picked up...

First Ipad Commercial Aired During Oscars – Check It Out

Singularity Hub Staff -
The first official commercial for the Apple ipad aired today during the Oscars.  You can criticize or praise the ipad all you want, but...

Intendix, The Brain Computer Interface Goes Commercial (video)

Aaron Saenz -
The world's first patient-ready and commercially available brain computer interface just arrived at CeBIT 2010. The Intendix from Guger Technologies (g*tec) is a system...

Can You Hear My Heart Now? Digital Stethoscope gets iPhone App

Aaron Saenz -
Need to prove you're human? Doctors can now email your heartbeat using a digital stethoscope and new iPhone App from ThinkLabs. While the ds32a...

MeBot, the Telepresence Robot With Body Language (Video)

Aaron Saenz -
It may not make sense to your binary minds, robots, but humans talk with their hands. Thankfully, engineers at the Personal Robotics Group at...

Google’s Youtube Rolls Out Automatic English Captions To All Videos

Singularity Hub Staff -
In a press conference earlier today Google announced a bold and ambitious plan to automatically add computer generated captioning to all English videos on...

Zeo Headband Monitors, Analyzes Your Brain While You Sleep (Video)

Aaron Saenz -
Having a machine watch you while you sleep may seem a bit creepy, but it might be the best way to help you get...

Behold the RollTop, The Computer You Unfurl (video)

Aaron Saenz -
2010 may go down in history as the year of the tablet, but that hasn't stopped anyone from dreaming about the next form the...

Beware the Botnets – Zombie Cyber Attacks

Aaron Saenz -
Zombies are coming; not for your brains but for your computer. For years, cyber criminals have been exploiting weaknesses (mostly in Windows) to gain...

Turn Your Body Into Your I/O with Skinput (video)

Aaron Saenz -
Electronic devices are getting smaller, and so are their interfaces. If you've ever had problems typing on your mobile, or changing a song on...

Singularity University Gathers Steam, Rolls Out New Website

Aaron Saenz -
The spring season of growth has come early to the NASA Ames center in Silicon Valley. That's where Singularity University is gearing up for...

Invasion of the Robot Teachers! (Video)

Aaron Saenz -
Did you ever have a teacher you could have sworn was a robot? Well yours wasn't, but your child's might be. The Korean Institute...

ACT Gains FDA Approval For Embryonic Stem Cell Derived Therapy

Aaron Saenz -
Massachusetts based biotech company Advanced Cell Technology recently announced that the FDA has granted orphan drug status to MA09-hRPE - an embryonic stem cell...

The Remote Controlled Hummingbird Robot From Chiba (Video)

Aaron Saenz -
Why just build robots in our own image, when there are millions of other animals to translate into machinery? The latest robot out of...

Honda’s 1 Person Electric Vehicle Looks Cool, But Who Will Buy It?

Aaron Saenz -
The 80th Geneva International Motor Show starts March 4th, and we've already gotten a sneak peek at one of Honda's newest concept vehicles. The...

3D Printer Creates Fully Articulate Metal Robot Figures (Video)

Aaron Saenz -
I knew it was only a matter of time before someone used stainless steel 3D printing to make an awesome looking robot. Little did...

Let The RoboGames Begin!

Steven Wasick -
RoboGames, now in its 7th year, is the world’s largest robotics competition. For this year’s contest they secured the 5,000 person San Mateo Expo...
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