Yearly Archives: 2010

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

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

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)

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

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

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

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)

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

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)

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

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)

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

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)

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)

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

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)

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

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)

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

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)

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?

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)

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!

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...

Demand for Stem Cells Growing Fast, Many Turn to Medical Tourism

You can't keep a good thing down. When the US restricted stem cell research in the early part of the century that research didn't...

Quirky Robot Art You Need To Buy (video)

Sure, you may know about robots, but do you know about their personal lives? A Missouri couple have taken their hobby of building sculptures...

Stem Cell Transplant Defeats HIV? Patient Still HIV Free After 2 Years

Add one more name to the ever growing list of diseases that have been defeated by stem cell treatments: HIV. That's right, according to...

BeBionic Artificial Hand and Wrist – Now With Kung-Fu Grip! (video)

Judging by the latest promo videos, the BeBionic hand is out to kick more butt than...well, an artificial foot. Full of heavy rock licks,...

Will 23andMe Find Which Genes Make You a Life-Long Athlete?

Back in October, 23andMe generated a little PR buzz by examining the genetic codes of 100 current and former NFL players and comparing them...

QTC Robot Skin Feels How Hard You Touch – Coming soon to MIT, Samsung, Others

Britain based Peratech is endowing machines with a human-like sense of touch. Their material, a quantum tunneling composite (QTC), increases the electricity it conducts...

Argus III – The Artificial Retina is Near!

Restoring vision to the blind is one of the epic promises of technology, sort of like flying cars, ray guns, and a lovable robot...

Tiny Sensor Could Run For Years Harnessing Energy from Environment

The University of Michigan has produced a miniature sensor that harnesses solar energy and could last for years without needing to be replaced. Composed...

Genetically Modified Flowers That Can Smell Like Anything

Ever wanted a rose that smelled like bananas? Maybe a petunia that reeked of root beer? Researchers at the University of Florida Gainesville have...

Segway Made from Lego Robot Kit Works Without a Gyro (video)

Lego robots are putting traditional automatons to shame. NXT Programs has created a design for a robot Segway using only those pieces included with...

Singularity University’s Summer Program Doubling in Size – Sign Up Now

Singularity University's inaugural Graduate Studies Program was such a success last year that singularity University press release they've decided to double the class size....

iRobot Swabs the Deck of the USS Freedom

Some of the newest robots to join the US Navy aren't spy planes or attack drones, they're house cleaners. According to the Military Times,...

Composer Uses WiiMotes and AI To Form Robot Band

Patrick Flanagan's not in your typical band. Rather than long haired hippies, his drum circle is staffed by solenoids, actuators, and a couple of...

Complete Genomics Secures New Customers, 500+ Orders for Whole Genome Sequences

Complete Genomics has made some heavy predictions about the number of whole genome sequences it will complete in the next five years, so you...

Use Your Idle Computer Time to Save the World

The World Community Grid wants to turn you spare computer power into life saving change around the globe. Sponsored by IBM, the WCG is...

Welcome To Robot Land Theme Park

The world's first major theme park based on robots is coming to Incheon, South Korea. Robot Land has already raised more than 784.5 billion...

MIT’s Flyfire – Miniature Helicopters Turn Sky into Digital Screen (video)

Robots may be taking your place on the factory floor, but they're also aiming for higher goals: replacing fireworks and conquering the sky. MIT's...

Want To Live Forever? Better Hope You Have the Right FOXO3A Gene

German researchers at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel recently confirmed that variants of the FOXO3A gene are a common characteristic for many people...

10/GUI – Desktops Without a Mouse, Operating Systems without Windows (video)

Teams of developers are racing to construct the next great human-computer interface, and most already have a product to peddle. Clayton Miller is still...

Theo Jansen Inspires YouTube Robot Creature Revolution (video)

Theo Jansen's Strandbeests are a strange combination of primitive robots and kinetic sculptures, but he calls them a new form of life. Assembled from...

Robot Soccer (Football) Getting Better, Goes Global

Call it football or soccer, either way it's the world's most popular sport, and like all the good things in the world robots are...

Robot Photo Studio From Ortery Replaces Photographers

Whenever I buy things online I'll click on the little images for the product and proceed to zoom and rotate until I've seen every...

LEGO Robot Solves Any Rubik’s Cube In Less Than 12 Seconds (Video)

Be warned my fellow humans, robots will not be satisfied until they defeat us in even the most trivial of contests. Cube Stormer is...

Minority Report Interface Is Real, Hitting Mainstream Soon (Video)

Steven Spielberg asked John Underkoffler to help design a futuristic human computer interface for a movie that takes place in the year 2054. Little...

Newly Found “Secrets To Aging” Are Over Hyped

Recent work in Newcastle, UK and at the University of Ulm, Germany has been toted as discovering the "secrets to aging" but is really...

Woman Seeks Husband for Health Insurance on YouTube

With the US economy in recession and socialized medicine unlikely, healthcare is becoming precious. How precious, you may ask? Well, Terri Carlson is willing...

A Global Social Network Without The Language Barrier – Mojofiti

Mojofiti has a simple but awesome concept behind it: connect people together in a world without language barriers. The Mojofiti website, now in its...
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