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Monthly Archives: November, 2011

New Startup Romotive Turns Your Smartphone Into A Robot (video)

Peter Murray -
How awesome is Romo the Smartphone Robot? Without knowing anything about it, you simply have to look at the robot’s Kickstarter page. The pledge...

Step Inside Buildings and Restaurants With Google Maps Interior View

Peter Murray -
Google keeps moving forward with their secret mission to make it possible for people to never leave their houses. If you haven’t seen it...
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What Is The Great Garbage Patch In The North Pacific? (video)

Peter Murray -
In the North Pacific swirls an enormous clockwise vortex generated by four converging currents from the north, south, east, and west. Like a slow...

Seafaring Robots Begin Record-Breaking, 300-Day Journey Halfway Around The World (video)

Peter Murray -
Meet Piccard Maru, Fontaine Maru, Benjamin, and Papa Mau, the four sea-faring robots that set out from San Francisco November 17th for a 300-day...

Obese Monkeys Given Miracle Weight Loss Pill (video)

Peter Murray -
Do we finally have a miracle weight loss drug? I mean, for real this time? The data seems to support such a claim, at...

Financial Priorities Force Geron To End Human Trials For Promising Stem Cell Treatment

Peter Murray -
The promise of future stem cell treatments just took a significant hit. Biopharmaceutical trailblazer Geron Corporation just called it quits as far as their stem...

Prisonless: How Modern Technology Allows Prisoners To Walk And Live Among Us

Louie Helm -
Have you ever thought about how ineffective different parts of our legal system are? I've often thought about how restraining orders are such a...

Mysterious Structures In Chinese Desert Captured By Satellite Explained…Most Probably (video)

Peter Murray -
There’s nothing like satellite pictures of strange structures in the Chinese countryside to spark an online conspiracy debate. News sites all over the web...

Now Available At Wal-Mart: Credit Card Processer That Plugs Into Your Smart Phone

Peter Murray -
Don’t you just hate it when you try pay for something and they don’t take credit cards? I mean, who carries cash these days?...

Surgeon Uses 3D Printer To Make Models Of Bone – And Saves Hospital Bookoo Bucks

Peter Murray -
While necessity is the mother of invention, frustratingly high costs can motivate us to ask if there’s another way. Mark Frame, an orthopedic surgeon...

Copper’s New Role: Germ Killer

Peter Murray -
We’ve already got hand sanitizer at every entrance and waiting room, signs in the bathrooms to remind us to wash our hands when we...

NASA Launches Next Generation Weather And Climate Satellite (video)

Peter Murray -
In the early morning hours of Friday, October 28, the NPP satellite blasted off from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. To the profound...

A First Look At The Slimmer And Smarter Asimo Humanoid Robot (video)

Peter Murray -
Wanna get a glimpse of what the future will look like? Take a look at the all-new Asimo humanoid robot. Honda’s star robot has...

LifeStraw Brings Clean Water To Almost One Million In Kenya (video)

Peter Murray -
Most of us take access to clean water for granted. But for nearly a billion people around the world, clean water is a commodity...

Latest Hatsune Miku Videos in High Definition – Virtual Singer Shows No Signs of Slowing Down

Aaron Saenz -
Good news for all you Hatsune Miku fans: the virtual diva is ready for you to enjoy in high definition. Ever since her US...

A Real World ‘Superhero’ Living in Seattle? Another Strange Byproduct of Technology’s Advance

Aaron Saenz -
Get ready for a new kind of hero...the really laughable kind. By day he's 23 year old Benjamin Fodor - husband and father. By...

Knewton, The Adaptive Learning Company, Receives $33 Million To Revolutionize Learning (Video)

Peter Murray -
The way you learn is about to change. At least Knewton, the makers of an innovative Adaptive Learning Platform, would like that to be...

Wherever You Go, Cameras Are Watching You

Aaron Saenz -
The modern digital camera is small enough to fit on a phone, powerful enough to record in high definition, and popular enough to be...

Sphero, the $130 Robot Ball That’s Also a Video Game, Rolls Out in December

Aaron Saenz -
Robots. Video Games. Smart phones. What do they all have in common? Sphero. The robotic ball that you control via your iOS or Android...
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