Yearly Archives: 2011

UK Plans for Human-Animal Genetic Hybrids

Britain is planning for a future present when human and animal genes are mixed. As scientists continue to use human genes implanted in animals...

Shazam Keeps Rolling — Popular App Names Songs and Shows Just By ‘Listening’

If you’ve never heard of the mobile app, Shazam, here’s how a late-night TV ad might pitch it: How annoying is it when you...

Researcher Makes a Career Developing Cocaine Vaccine, But Pharmaceutical Companies Won’t Produce It

Imagine if you came up with a simple but powerful idea: create a vaccine against the most addictive drugs. It could therapeutically help countless...

CivWorld, The Civilization-Building Game, Helps Facebook Further Advance As A Social Gaming Platform

Facebook seems to be the platform of choice for social gaming these days, and so it’s no surprise that established game franchises are looking...

Facebook, Picasa, Twitter and More – Memolane Makes a Timeline of Your Social Activity

What did you tweet on the morning of your Wedding? What was your Facebook status when your first child was born? Where are the...

Nanotechnology On The Internet – Videos of 25th Anniversary Foresight Reunion Now Online

Don't worry if you missed it, you can time travel and attend the Foresight Institute's 25th Anniversary Reunion through the magic of the internet....

Arrested For a Crime, Get DNA Profiled — Even More States Now Collect Samples at Booking

It's getting harder to be a criminal...at least a career criminal. That's because 25 states now collect DNA for certain felony arrests, such as...

Hilarious and Surprising Predictions of the Future…From the 1960s! (video)

Nothing should make a futurist more wary than looking at the history of the profession and seeing how hilarious its mistakes have been. Jetpacks,...

This Robot Can Learn To Run Anywhere, Just Try and Stop It!

From infancy, humans slowly figure out how to adjust the tension in their legs to maintain their balance and speed while walking. Now a...

Dubai’s Weather Wizards Create Rain, Wrestle Power From Mother Nature

Throughout history, mankind has strived to control the weather. Back in the day, you could sacrifice an animal or do a rain dance in...

Fat America Keeps Getting Fatter

If America’s shorelines begin shrinking at an alarming rate, it may not be due to global warming. It may just be that we’re so...

Quadriplegic Regains Control, Independence With Robot Helper (video)

For ten years, Henry Evans couldn't even scratch his nose. Now he has a $400,000 robot do it for him. A mute quadriplegic since...

A Bit of Coin: The Bitcoin Revolution

What your future wallet could look like When was the last time you paid cash for something? Even though a few vendors still prefer cash,...

Exclusive Video of Q&A With Aubrey de Grey on How To Live Forever

If you're watching a movie and someone from the film suddenly appears before you in person, there are two likely explanations: 1) you're in...

Pixar Ex-Designer Creates Stunning Interactive Book for iPad. Blurs Lines Between Books, Film, Games

What do you do after conquering Pixar, Disney, and Dreamworks? You revolutionize tablet reading, of course. Designer William Joyce created a name for himself...

Maine Schools Give iPads To All Kindergarten Students (video)

Starting kindergarten is a milestone in a kid’s life as it signifies the start of formal education. But as of next fall, this rite...

Transcendent Man Movie Blowout August 3 – Ray Kurzweil, Steve Wozniak, Michio Kaku, and Many More!

The future is coming to the 49 out of 50 of the United States (sorry, Wyoming). On August 3rd, Transcendent Man: A Conversation About...

Patient Medical Records in the UK Headed into the Cloud

The British have a long history of bravely venturing off into the unknown, and with cloud computing as their new frontier, they are forging...

10,000 Year Clock Begins Construction Thanks to $42 Million from Amazon’s CEO

The construction of a modern wonder of the world is now underway in western Texas as the plans for a clock that will tick...

Belgian Blues Will Blow Your Mind, These Cows Are Totally Ripped

It's been more than a decade since humans have cracked their own genetic code, but we've yet to wake up to a world of...

Yes, We Got Hacked But We Fixed It – No More Malware Messages

So about 12 hours ago everyone started getting warning messages from their web browsers that they should not go to Singularity Hub because it...

Miracle Powder Regrows Fingers, Now Thigh Muscle for Marine

It was only a year ago that ACell's "miracle powder" was sprinkled on amputated fingers and shown to stimulate the regeneration of fingertips. The...

If You’re Happy and You Know It—FACEBOOK WILL DETECT IT

Does the internet know when you're smiling? That's a rhetorical question. Of course it can. Face.com, makers of a top notch facial recognition API,...

Hockey’s Wayne Gretzky Pimps Hi-Tech Muscle Supplement – Is The Science Real?

To hockey fans Wayne Gretzky is The Great One, but to body builders he may soon become The Guy Who Got Me to Buy...

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Players Rule Their Real Neighborhoods with Shadow Cities, a Location-Based MMORPG for the iPhone (VIDEO)

When Steve Jobs unveiled the first iPhone in 2007, he described it as a revolutionary and magical product. Fortunately, the founders of the Finnish...

Paraplegics Walk With Exoskeleton – Exclusive Video of Berkeley Bionic’s eLegs in Action

Robotic legs may get paraplegics walking again, and in more ways than one. Exoskeleton startup Berekely Bionics has partnered with ten of the top...

Japan’s Virtual PopStar Hatsune Miku Rocks Los Angeles!

July 2nd, 2011: the day a software program became an internationally touring pop sensation. Hatsune Miku gave a blowout concert at the Nokia Theater...

Come Watch How To Live Forever Movie With Me in San Francisco This Friday!

If you could take a pill that would let you live 500 more years, would you? That's one of the many questions director and...

Google+ is Awesome. Facebook Maimed, Twitter Mortally Wounded?

I´ve spent the last week playing with the new Google+, and I´m here to tell you the service is pretty damn awesome.  Dozens of...

South Korea: We’re Spending $2 Billion To Put Our Textbooks on Tablet PCs by 2015. What Are You Doing?

In a bold move towards digitizing education, South Korea's Ministry of Education Science and Technology has announced it is spending 2.2 trillion Wan ($2...

A Horde of 4.5 Million Zombie Computers Is Marching Towards You

It's name is TDL-4, and they say it's invulnerable. Known as a botnet, this malicious software has infiltrated an estimated 4.5 million PCs around...

After a Bumpy Ride China’s New High-Speed Rail Takes off at Almost 200mph

The world is poised for another railroad revolution, and China intends to lead the way. On July 1st China’s new CRH380 high-speed train began...

Canada’s New Polymer Banknotes Aim To Foil Counterfeiters…for the Time Being

In an age when online banking, electronic transfers, RFID-based payments, and digital currency are becoming exponentially popular among consumers, "paper" money can seem like...

Virtual People Watching Virtual Movies In Virtual Space – Recursively Delicious!

Locating your indie film festival in the real world? Meh, that's so mainstream. The fourth annual Machinima Expo is coming this November to a...

The 25th KondoCup, A Milestone in Robot Soccer (video)

They said it would never last. Actually, they didn't. They said, "let's keep doing this because it's awesome." KondoCup just celebrated its 25th event...

Billions and Billions Served – Traffic In The New Era of Google and Facebook

Google's online dominance can now be expressed in a new way: every month, the equivalent of one seventh of the world's population travels to...

Hide Your Kids, Hide Your Wife! The Eyeborgs Are Out to Get You

Walking robotic cameras have armed themselves, are seeking your destruction, and the guy from the Highlander TV series is the only one who can...

Don’t Trust the Cloud? Backup Your Social Network with SocialSafe

It's months before Facebook's IPO, but you can protect the investment you've made in the social network now. Startup SocialSafe is building itself to...

World’s Largest Digging Machine Goes to Work (video)

What does the biggest digging machine in the world have to do with the Singularity? The Bagger 288 represents a masterful symphony of cutting-edge technology, brought...

How well are you sleeping? Ask your pajamas.

Looks like someone’s engineering senior design project is going better than mine did.  That’s the vibe I’m getting anyway – some biomedical engineering students...

3D Printers Are Taking Off But One in Every Home? Maybe in Another 10 Years

The 3D printer has come of age….well, almost. Let’s just say that after a tough hit from the recession, the 3D printer industry is...

New Report Shows Pesticides Found Throughout Produce — USDA Says Keep Eating

The USDA recently released their annual report on the presence of pesticide residue in food commodities, and the study produced a harvest of mixed...

A Night Out with the Willow Garage Robots – New Info From the Press Dinner

When a robot asks you out on a date, say yes. Wednesday night, Willow Garage hosted a small press dinner at their offices in...

Kurzweil Speaks on the Future of Computer Translation (video)

We live in a world where language technologies, still in their infancy, are powerful enough to turn your web browser into a text translator,...

Population Growth and the Rise of Mega-Cities: Can Technology Help?

Are you ready to share the planet with 7 billion people? Current projections estimate that this population milestone is only months away. Along with...

Libyan Rebel Engineers Improvise War Robots In Fight Against Gaddafi (video)

How do I know we live in the future? Because there's a ragtag group of rebels facing an evil regime and their greatest hope...

Cheap, Swarming Kilobots Bring Us Closer to a Bot-Filled World (video)

Quick, what's the first thing that comes to mind when you read the phrase "robotic swarm"? A nefarious group of robots on a devious...

Has China Wiretapped 20,000 Hong Kong Cars?

Careful what you say when driving between Hong Kong and China, the government may be listening. The Apple Daily, a Hong Kong news source,...

The Wild World of Vending Machines

Modern technology. Ain’t it grand? The machines spawned by our collective ingenuity have made our lives longer and better. They’ve made our lives easier...
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