Monthly Archives: May, 2011

$500 To Turn Your iPhone Into an ECG Heart Monitor (video)

Every 34 seconds someone suffers from a heart attack in the US. In the fight against this insane plague, startups are scrambling to...

Miracle Blue Goo Used To Decontaminate Japan’s Nuclear Disaster (video)

It looks like Smurf blood and it may keep Japan safe from nuclear waste. DeconGel is a liquid polymer that can spread easily on...

New Google Wallet Will Face Stiff Competition

Will Google be the company that transforms your smart phone into the only form of payment you need to carry with you? It really...

Vivid Ads Give You False Memories That You Swear Are Real

Remember that time you were drinking Coke with Ronald McDonald and Tony the Tiger while the Energizer Bunny danced in your living room? Yeah,...

Xsens Full Body Suit – Motion Capture for the Mad Genius (video)

The real world just sucker punched virtual reality. Motion capture has long been used to make digital characters more believable, even when they were...

Mind Reader Company Valued At $200+ Million In New Funding Round (video)

A new brain recording device is changing the way scientists study the brain. Its miniature size and innovative recording capabilities allow data to be...

Unlock Your Door With Your Phone, Text a Key to a Friend – Lockitron is Awesome (video)

It's time for your front door to go high tech. The aptly named Lockitron is an electronic door lock you can control via your...

No More Medical Record Hell – Startup Looks to Bring Doctors And Patients Into The Digital Age

If Practice Fusion has their way, your doctor's office is about to get an upgrade - big time. Like other electronic health records (EHR)...

Google Invades Your Home…Android Phones Control Your Appliances and Accessories (video)

Soon your smart phone may be the only light switch you'll ever need. At this year's Google I/O conference, enterprising executives from the Silicon...

Storybook Time With the PR2 – This Robot Can Read Anything It Sees

The University of Pennsylvania has been elevating students' understanding of literature since 1740...and robots' since 2011. UPenn's GRASP Lab has taught one of Willow...

The Government is Spying On You Through Facebook Right…Now

In our ongoing effort to keep you safe we've decided to read your email without your consent. Love, Your Democratically Elected Government. Controlling information and spying on...

Robots Take Over Recycling (video)

Robots are coming to take over the world...of recycling. Finland based ZenRobotics is a company on a mission: use artificial intelligence and the latest...

China Begins Construction of Megacity Four Times the Population of New York

Imagine a city larger than all of Switzerland, twice the size of New Jersey, or with four times the population of New York City....

Why Don’t We Video Chat More Often?

One of the most common staples of any futuristic movie or book has always been the video (or even holographic) phone call.  From Back...

Palm-Sized Tiny Quadrotor Flies With Style in Sweden (video)

How do you prove your competence to your office mates? Try building a remote controlled flying robot that can buzz over their heads and...

Take a 3D Tour of the Hotel of the Future, Coming Soon to New York City (video)

When you stay in this fancy New York City hotel you don't have to worry about tipping the bellboy - that's because he's a...

Satellite Images of North Korea Prison Camps Find 200,000 Living as Slaves

No one really knows how bad it is, but it's much worse than I thought possible. Piecing together information from satellite images and eye...

Luna Personal Robot Brings You Telepresence and More for $3k. Can It Be a Game Changer?

A few months ago a video was leaked of a mysterious robot. Now, after its official launch I can tell you that the mystery...

Complete Genomics Doing Well in 2011, Thousands More Genomes On Order

The company that could bring about the revolution in human genome sequencing is showing early signs of success in 2011. Complete Genomics is hoping...

World’s Largest Model Airport Completed In Hamburg, Germany -150 Square Meters Costing $4.8 Million

The world belongs to the energetic. If they be dreamers too, then theirs will be a beautiful world. Frederik and Gerrit Braun, energetic twin brothers...

Watch Willow Garage’s PR2 Robot Solve a Rubik’s Cube With Autonomous Glee (video)

"Welcome to your new home, now please solve this Rubik's Cube." - when you're a robot, people greet you in some funny ways. No...

A $25 Computer The Size of Your Thumb! (video)

It's called Rasberry Pi and the price for the new computer is as delicious as its name. Under development by The Raspberry Pi Foundation...

The Myth of the Three Laws of Robotics – Why We Can’t Control Intelligence

Like many of you I grew up reading science fiction, and to me Isaac Asimov was a god of the genre. From 1929 until...

Humanity+: Uniting Transhumanists Worldwide

Transhumanists of the world: do you ever find yourself feeling lonely, wishing you had a place to go to share your thoughts on artificial...
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Build Your Own Tweenbot (video)

It's about time you started running your own social experiments using robots instead of relying upon scientists to do it for you. Luckily, Tweenbot...

Will You Be a Cyborg by 2027? Awesome Website Marketing the New Deus Ex Video Game Says ‘Yes’ (Video)

Over a decade ago, the video game Deus Ex was remarkable for its blending of numerous game genres, emphasis on player choice, and depth...

Google Maps Goes Inside Your Business With New Photos (video)

If there's an important bit of information you need to know you can bet that Google is trying to squeeze it into their maps....

FarmVille Comes to Life! Real Farm in UK Run By Internet Vote (video)

The real world is about to get a taste of the meme magic that made Zynga famous. Wimpole Home Farm in Cambridgeshire in the...

Children of Guanajuato, Mexico in Biometric D-Base

Biometrics is penetrating deeper into our lives than ever before. Next-generation passports with stored fingerprint data are being issued in almost every country. Russia...

Will Nevada Pass Laws to Welcome Robot Cars?

It may take years to produce the first autonomous vehicles for consumer use but Nevada is already laying the legal ground work to get...

Piano Playing Robot Claims to be First of Its Kind…But It’s 27 Years Too Late (video)

When it comes to technology, there really needs to be a ban on claiming to be the 'First', or at least a really good...

Moore’s Law Lives! Intel Announces Launch of 22 nanometer 3D Transistor (video)

About every twenty-four months the computer chip manufacturers of the world manage to double the amount of transistors they can cram on an inexpensive...

Google Now Lets You Search Just By Talking To It

Select users of Google's Chrome web browser are getting a glimpse into the future of web searching. The latest update to Chrome allows for...

Watch Rollin’ Justin Robot’s Amazing Double Barehanded Catch! (video)

There's a special place in a nerd's heart for a robot that can beat jocks at sports and fetch us a cup of coffee...

Pepsi’s New Social Vending Machine Lets You Reach Out And Refresh Someone (video)

There are few things as social as sharing a drink with someone, even if that someone is thousands of miles away. PepsiCo recently unveiled...

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That's right, Singularity Hub is available on your Kindle, and has been for quite a long time actually.  If you have a Kindle and...

Kurzweil: 3 Supplements To Let You Live Until The Singularity (video)

The future could be a paradise of technological wonders, but you'll (probably) need to keep yourself alive for decades in order to enjoy all...

Robot Finds Blackbox from 2009 Air France Crash

A small piece of a tragic mystery has been solved. This past weekend, a team lead by France's Inquisition and Analysis Bureau (BEA) used...

Home Elephant = Facebook + Neighborhood Watch. Could Be a Winning Formula (video)

Welcome to the neighborhood watch of the future, welcome to Home Elephant. Created to bring social media to local neighborhoods, Home Elephant lets you...

Slowing Brain Cancer with Gadgets? New Treatment Receives FDA Approval

Getting a diagnosis of brain cancer would rank high on anybody’s list of biggest fears. For the approximately 22,000 people who receive that diagnosis...

Thought-Wired Allows Disabled to Control Home Appliances with Mind Alone

If you’re one of the millions affected by severe disabilities, you should pay close attention to three innovative, pure-hearted Aucklanders who are whipping up...
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