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Competing Exoskeletons? HA! The HULC Is Not Afraid of Puny Exos (Video)

Aaron Saenz -
Lockheed Martin took some time during the recent Association of the US Army Conference (AUSA) in Washington DC to show why their exoskeleton, the...

A Robot in Every Korean Kindergarten by 2013?

Aaron Saenz -
If you want humans to fear and respect their robot overlords you have to start early. Elementary school children in Korea in the cities...

MQ-9 Reaper is the Badass of Military Drones (video)

Aaron Saenz -
War is not a video game...but it's starting to look more and more like one. The prevalence of unmanned aerial vehicles in the US...

Wake Forest Lab Creates First Liver Using Human Cells

Aaron Saenz -
Got a problem with your liver? Don't worry, we'll grow you a new one...eventually. That was the message researchers from Wake Forest University's Institute...

Tracking Every Pill, Every Piece Of Food – The Internet Of Things Cometh

Aaron Saenz -
IBM may be a big scary corporation, but there are bigger and scarier worries out there. Among them is counterfeit prescription drugs. According to...

ASIMO Celebrates 10th Birthday With Video, Phone Apps, and More

Aaron Saenz -
October 31st marked an important holiday...ASIMO's birthday! Honda recently released a host of promotional materials to mark the 10th anniversary of the ASIMO project....

Actroid F Female Telepresence Robot Looks Super Real, Creepy

Aaron Saenz -
When you speak with your family over a webcam they may be able to see your face, but they don't have a real body...

We Don’t Need Digital Textbooks, We Just Need Digital Education

Aaron Saenz -
We are a generation educated by reading textbooks, taught by teachers who relied on special editions of textbooks for answers, and effected by countless...

Steven Johnson, Robert Krulwich, and Kevin Kelly Dismiss Singularity, Kurzweil (video)

Aaron Saenz -
Is the Singularity Near? Depends on who you ask. The New York Public Library and FORA.tv recently sponsored a discussion on accelerating technologies and...

World’s Fastest Miniature Robot Mice Blaze Thru Mazes (video)

Aaron Saenz -
Every year, people from all over the world compete see who can build the fastest mouse. Mouse robot that is. These Micromouse competitions have...

Chatterbot Fools Judge Into Thinking It’s Human at Competition

Aaron Saenz -
The next time you're on IM, you better watch out, computers are getting better and better at pretending to be human. At the recent...

$230,000 And You Can Buy Your Own Robot Legs

Aaron Saenz -
If you're like me you grew up on cartoons and scifi books with heroes that fought evil in robotic walking battle suits. You probably...

Sony’s 360 View 3D Display – The Snow Globe of the Future

Aaron Saenz -
Help me Obi-wan Kenobi...Sony's ripping off our ideas. Since late last year, Sony's been showing off a really cool looking 3D display that's very...

Washington Creates World’s First Cyborg with a Balance Implant (video)

Aaron Saenz -
Researchers at the University of Washington are pioneering an area of cybernetics that few have explored: the sense of balance. On October 21st a...

iRobot’s Universal Gripper Pours A Drink and Draws Shapes (video)

Aaron Saenz -
One of the world's most versatile robot hands doesn't look like a hand at all. iRobot's universal robotic gripper is an elastic ball filled...

Want A Great Formula 1 Simulator? Ride this Robot Arm! (video)

Aaron Saenz -
Give engineers any excuse, and they're going to find a way to combine robots and video games. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for...

Use Your iPad to Call a Robot Taxi To Drive You Around Berlin!

Aaron Saenz -
In the future, not only will you not have to drive your car, you won't even have to own it. Researchers at the Free...

Catching Augmented Reality Butterflies on Your iPhone to Earn Free Stuff (video)

Aaron Saenz -
If you see some crazy person waving their phone around like they're trying to hit an imaginary bug, don't worry - they're just catching...

Lego NXT 3D Printer: Use Blocks to Build Blocks (video)

Aaron Saenz -
Following in the likes of MakerBot and RepRap, Will Gorman at BattleBricks has created a new 3D printer that you can build yourself. There's...

Wolfram Alpha – Two Sm@rt 4 teh Interwebs? (video)

Aaron Saenz -
Oh Wolfram Alpha, why don't more people love you? Despite the amazing calculations and information contained within the "computational knowledge engine", its traffic is...

“Life in a Day” Takes Video Logging To A Global Level (video)

Aaron Saenz -
What does a day in the life of the world really look like? Boring, whimsical, and profound all at the same time. Movie makers...

Augmented Reality On Your Glasses, Maps in Your Eyes (video)

Aaron Saenz -
How do you know you're watching a science fiction movie? Easy - there's always someone who has a video, or message, or digital map,...

Bullying Is Moving Online. Is There No Escape For Their Victims?

Aaron Saenz -
The internet can provide us with many things, but it can't help us avoid adolescence. The rise of social media in the past decade...

New Video of MIT’s Minority Report Interface: G-Speak

Aaron Saenz -
John Underkoffler thrilled geeks and normals alike when he designed the revolutionary computer interface seen in Steven Spielberg's Minority Report. Using nothing more than...

Bionic Vet Headed to the US, Still Making Cyborg Pets in the UK (video)

Aaron Saenz -
For just $3000 you can change your kitty into a cyber-cat. Noel Fitzpatrick, a veterinary surgeon in Surrey, England, made world news this summer...

Twitter Predicts the Stock Market

Aaron Saenz -
If you want to make a killing on Wall Street, social media may be the secret to your success. Researchers at Indiana University and...

Mobile 3D Display With Pen That Feels What You See (video)

Aaron Saenz -
Japanese electronics firm NTT DoCoMo unveiled a cool new way to interact with the objects on your portable screen at the CEATEC conference this...

Pleo is Reborn! Baby Dinosaur Robot Makes its Way Back to Market (video)

Aaron Saenz -
Pleo the original cuddly dinobot is back, and Innvo Labs CEO Derek Dotson has discussed some of the advanced features that will be found...

This Rocking Lead Singer is a 3D Hologram (video)

Aaron Saenz -
The internet is such a big place that sometimes I stumble onto huge trends that I've never even heard of before. Case in point:...

Solar Roadways Idea Wins Popular Vote for Ecomagination Prize

Aaron Saenz -
The dream of driving across America on solar panels took another small step towards coming true. Scott and Julie Brusaw's Solar Roadways concept beat...

Holy Crap! – The $8 Million iPhone 4

Aaron Saenz -
Forget about accelerating technology, let's talk accelerating prices. 'Luxury designer' Stuart Hughes has just released his version of the iPhone 4. It's made out...

Robots and Humans Dancing Together – The World is Getting Weirder (video)

Aaron Saenz -
Visitors to the recent Digital Content Expo in Tokyo got to see one of the more unusual performances of their lives: a robotic woman...

Surprise! CCTV Cameras in France Used to Issue Parking Tickets

Aaron Saenz -
Be careful about letting Big Brother into your town, he may say he's there to help you, but he could also be there to...

Creative Robot Art To Get Your Brain Pumping

Aaron Saenz -
Serious science is great, but sometimes you just have to let your creative juices flow and see what you can dream up. That's the...

Telenoid – The Creepiest Telepresence Robot You’ll Ever Love (video)

Aaron Saenz -
Imagine talking to your friends through a robotic copy of Casper the Friendly Ghost. That's what I imagine it must be like to use...

Best Globally Crowdsourced Music Video Ever

Aaron Saenz -
With nothing more than webcams and a dedicated fan base, Japanese band Sour produced one of the coolest looking music videos I've ever seen....

Amino Acids Extend Mice Life 12% – Could It Work On Humans?

Aaron Saenz -
Researchers in Italy may have struck upon a health supplement that could extend life. Enzo Nisoli and colleagues developed a cocktail of amino acids...

Stan Lee To Create Futuristic Romeo and Juliet Comic (photos)

Aaron Saenz -
Shakespeare is getting a makeover for the Singularity. Comic book legend Stan Lee used his appearance at the New York Comic Con to announce...

NIH Awards $40 Million to Map the Wiring of the Brain

Aaron Saenz -
You may never have heard of the Connectome, but chances are it defines nearly everything about who you are. Just as our genome is...

Embryo Frozen for 20 Years Is Now a Bouncing Baby Boy

Aaron Saenz -
Imagine being born at the age of 20. Doctors at the Jones Institute for Reproductive Medicine in Virginia have made history by implanting a...

New Super Microphone Can Hear You in a Crowded Stadium

Aaron Saenz -
I have an uncanny knack for making a fool of myself when I'm in a crowd, and it always seems like everyone goes silent...

XKCD’s Map of Online Communities 2010 – Facebook Swells

Aaron Saenz -
Navigating the ever evolving communities on the web is a difficult task - it helps to have a map. Randall Munroe of the webcomic...

Cyber Warfare: Stuxnet Worm Attacks Nuclear Site in Iran

Aaron Saenz -
The Bushehr nuclear power plant in Iran was the most likely target of the recent Stuxnet worm - a computer virus designed to disrupt...

Geron’s Embryonic Stem Cell Trials Get First Patient

Aaron Saenz -
Good news for stem cell therapies. The first clinical trial using human embryonic stem cells (hESC) in the United States has officially...

Google’s New Robot Car Raises Hopes, Reality Will Dash Them Soon

Aaron Saenz -
Google shocked the world this weekend by announcing that not only was it developing robot car technology, but that its fleet of autonomous cars...

Suspended Animation Trials on Trauma Patients In Massachusetts

Aaron Saenz -
Freeze a life to save a life. Medical researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston are planning to temporarily replace the blood of trauma...

GATC To Sequence 100,000 Genomes by 2014

Aaron Saenz -
Europe's leading genetic sequencing provider, GATC Biotech, recently announced that it would sequence 100,000 human genomes by 2014. Based in Germany, GATC plan on...

Newsweek Purchased for $1, Signs of Old Media Fading

Aaron Saenz -
Earlier this summer, Washington Post Co. sold Newsweek, once one of their flagship media publications, to tycoon Sidney Harman. The price: $1. To sweeten...

Berkeley Bionic’s eLEGS Allow Paraplegics To Walk Again (video)

Aaron Saenz -
A whole new generation of paraplegics may be able to stand up and walk away from their wheelchairs. Exoskeleton developers Berkeley Bionics recently unveiled...

Immersive Technology Summit Oct 21, 2010

Singularity Hub Staff -
The Immersive Technology Summit will be hosted in Los Angeles October 21, 2010.  The Immersive Technology Summit has been a fantastic sponsor of the...
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