Monthly Archives: June, 2010

Apple’s New Version of the AppWall Visualizes Thousands of Downloads

During his keynote at the World Wide Developers Conference this week, Steve Jobs announced that Apple's App Store recently hit 5 billion downloads. To...

Cord Blood Saves Life of Pakistani Boy In India (Video)

Shaheer Imran from Islamabad was treated for a rare blood disease thanks to the cord blood donations of two strangers in India. The toddler...

Jazz Legend Pat Metheny’s Robot Orchestra Project (video)

Pat Metheny has already worked with most of the world's most talented musicians, so his newest collaboration project had to branch out a little...

Hans Keirstead Transforms Embryonic Stem Cells Into Retinas

Researchers at UC Irvine in California have succeeded in getting stem cells to differentiate into a retina. The work was recently published online in...

The Art of Transhumanism

Technology and art relate more to each other than you might think. Art mimics life. And it's an understatement to say that technology is...

Incredible TUG Robots Automate Delivery in Hospitals (video)

Robotic couriers are now gracing the halls of more than 100 hospitals across the US. Developed by Pittsburgh-based Aethon, the TUG robots haul carts...

Celebrities Showcase the Scary Power of Alcohol Monitoring Anklets

Memorial Day saw Lindsey Lohan become the latest in a long line of celebrities who were forced to wear a high-tech alcohol monitoring anklet....

Artificial Astronomer Analyzes Galaxies Almost As Well As We Do

Scientists are teaching an artificial intelligence how to classify galaxies imaged by telescopes like the Hubble. Manda Banerji at the University of Cambridge along...

New Surgical Technique Attempts to Re-grow Breasts After a Mastectomy (video)

Researchers at the Bernard O’Brien Institute of Microsurgery in Melbourne, Australia are pioneering a radical new surgical procedure that would allow women to re-grow...

Cyberwarfare – Virtual Attacks Could Come From Anywhere

Remote-controlled war. If the concept doesn’t scare the living daylights out of you, we don’t know what will. A recent report compiled by former...

Germany’s Artificial Cornea Ready To Restore Sight To Thousands

An expansive EU project to produce an artificial cornea has found success thanks to the work of Joachim Storsberg of the Fraunhofer Institute for...

Man in Arizona Leaves Hospital With Artificial Heart (Video)

On May 3rd, Charles Okeke in Phoenix, Arizona appears to have become the first person in the US to take a total artificial heart...

‘Turning Into Gods’ – Jason Silva’s Documentary on the Singularity (Trailer)

Jason Silva is an apostle of the future and he's looking to make converts. The young host on Al Gore's cable channel, Current TV,...

Autonomous Quad-copter Flies Through Windows and Kicks Ass (video)

Occasionally we see robots that are so awesome that we wonder why they haven't conquered the world yet. So it is with the newest...

Body’s Own Stem Cells Used To Grow Teeth in Mouth

Researchers at Columbia University Medical Center may have found a way to replace missing teeth by having them regrown by stem cells in your...

Will The Real First Robot Wedding Please Stand Up? Chicagoan Disputes Claim (video)

Last week the world marveled as Kokoro's iFairy presided over the world's first wedding conduted by a robot. At least, that's what we all...
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