Yearly Archives: 2011

Will Lady Gaga’s New Glasses Bring Lifelogging to the Masses?

Pop diva Lady Gaga's latest sunglasses are straight out of a spy movie. Produced in collaboration with Polaroid, and unveiled recently at CES 2011,...

Will The Future of the Internet be Written in Chinese?

English is the most spoken language on the internet, with more than 550 million regular visitors across the globe. Yet just this past year,...

Transcendent Man Film To Be Released in February, Digitally in March (trailer)

Almost two years after it premiered, Transcendent Man is finally making its way to widespread distribution, though maybe not in the way we expected....

Periodic Table Engraved On a Human Hair – Nanotech FTW

In a sure sign that a scientist will try anything once, Professor Martyn Poliakoff has had the periodic table engraved on one of the...

Google Goggles Uses Your Phone to Solve Sudoku and More!

Sorry Sudoku fans, you're about to be beat by anyone with a smart phone. In their latest deviation from the 'don't be evil' motto,...

Robot Ball Controlled by Your iPhone – Video Games Move into Reality (video)

Concerned mothers and congressmen have publicly lamented that children don't know the difference between video games and the real world. Little did they realize...

Rear View Cameras May Become Mandatory in US. Is Safety Trailing Technology?

The US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration recently proposed a new regulation to make rear-view cameras mandatory in all new US cars by the...

Eyes are the Gatekeepers of the Uncanny Valley (video)

The poets and philosophers were right, the eyes really are the windows to the soul. Or at least what we perceive to be the...

Robot Sumo Battle…BEGIN! (video)

There are many reasons I love Japan but one of the biggest is definitely their penchant for making robots fight to the death. At...

Electronic Glasses Let You Change Focus In a Split Second. Goodbye Bifocals! (video)

Move over Ben Franklin, we finally have a replacement for bifocals. Virginia-based Pixel Optics has developed a composite lens that can change the range...

Centuries Of Wisdom From the World’s Oldest Man (video)

Watching the world change in three centuries gives you a unique perspective on things. Walter Breuning turned 114 this fall, one of only a...

XWave iPhone Accessory Channels Your Brain Waves into iPhone

Do your friends complain that you can’t pull your eyes away from your iPhone? Well, if you get the new XWave by PLX Devices,...

Diabetes Defeated by a Microchip? Silicon Pancreas Hits Trials

Most people who treat their Type I Diabetes must still rely on pricking their finger and testing their blood several times everyday. Researchers at...

Kindle Rocks in 2010, Survives the iPad

2010 could easily have been the year that the Kindle died a quiet death, buried alongside fellow victims of the Apple empire... the year that...

Google Translate’s ‘Conversation Mode’ Coming To Your Phone

Hundreds of companies are working to hammer down the language barrier, but Google's about to bring in a wrecking ball. For the past year,...

Controlling Video Games With Your Pee – SEGA Brings Awkward Fun to the Restroom

In the early '90s, Sega held 65% of the US video game console market, had millions of fans, and was considered one of the...

XBox Kinect Controls Humanoid Robot (video)

In the future, we might be able to operate robots the same way that we play dancing video games. Taylor Veltrop, a software engineer...

iRobot Unveils Smarter Roomba and Smaller Scooba (video)

iRobot is proud to announce some new additions to their family. The reigning champions of robot vacuuming are looking to stay on top with...

Willow Garage’s PR2 Robot Operates Autonomously for 139 km!

What do you do when your robotic child is all grown up? I guess you make it run a marathon. Over the past few...

Woman Doesn’t Fear Reaper, Anything at All

“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer.” – Litany Against Fear, Frank Herbert’s Dune (1965) How many of us let fear guide us? How...

A Review of the Best Robots of 2010

Welcome to the third annual Singularity Hub robotic year-in-review. We’ll be showing you the best robots – and the most incredible videos – from...

Kurzweil Defends His Predictions Again: Was He 86% Correct?

"I figure lots of predictions is best. People will forget the ones I get wrong and marvel over the rest." --Alan Cox How would you...

Wall Street Computers Read The News Before Trading

Singularity Hub might be affecting the way stocks are traded on Wall Street. So could a lot of blogs. And Twitter feeds. Maybe even...

South Korea’s Robot Teachers To Test Telepresence Tools in the New Year

South Korea is testing robots that could help foreigners to reach out and teach someone. 29 robots were recently deployed in 21 schools in...

Motorola Taunts iPad, Prepares to Reveal its Tablet (video)

The age of the tablet has been almost entirely dominated by the iPad, and that isn’t for lack of competitors. Apple seems to have...
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