Yearly Archives: 2011

Robot Mercenaries and Corporate Power – The Dark Future of Video Games Seems Closer Everyday (Video)

Every year E3, the epic video game conference, consumes Los Angeles in a fiery ball of geeky glory, and from those ashes rise some...

Love That Beautiful Video of Nature? Thank the Aerial Drone That Took It.

When it comes to wildlife videos, a telescopic zoom may be the only way to get an amazing shot of a lion eating its...

Archetype Movie Asks: Can The Dead Live On As Robots?

Immortality comes in many flavors, but the tastiest may be robotic. Why keep living in your organic body forever when you can have a...

Miraculous New Spray On Skin Technology Treats Burns Without Scars

If you were a nerd like me as a kid, then perhaps you took delight in knowing the answer to this fun trivia question:...

Pool Playing Robot Shoots Five Billiard Balls in a Row (video)

Not every masters thesis will earn you street cred in a pool hall, but this one will. Thomas Nierhoff, from the Institute of Automatic...

UN Declares Internet Access A Human Right, But Fast and Cheap May Be as Important as Open

You have a right to the internet...maybe even a fast internet. In a breakthrough report to the 17th session of the United Nations' Human...

Eat Food, Mostly Plants… Live Indefinitely?

When lunchtime rolls around, what are you thinking about: your health or your hunger? We all want to eat healthier in theory, but for...

Artificial Intelligences Fight for World Dominion…in Ms. Pac-Man (video)

The story of Ms. Pac-Man is an epic tale of the struggle between the machinations of an evil horde of spirits and the enduring...

$150 Spy Glasses Transmit Video In Real Time To the Social Network (video)

Ever since True Lies I've been waiting for an affordable pair of spy glasses that can transmit video in real time. My wait looks...

Is Arizona’s Fat Tax a Solution to Obesity?

When I first heard that Arizona could be taxing the obese I thought it was an April Fool's Day hoax. Looks like the joke's...

Nintendo’s New Wii U Wows at E3, and Changes Gaming Forever…Again

The halls of E3, the world's most beloved video game conference, are ringing with excitement over Nintendo's latest announcement: the successor to the Wii...

Julian Assange: The Facebook Has You

With the increase and further development of communication technologies, everyone is concerned with the impact it will have on the individual’s privacy. Social networking...

The Rise of Netflix and the Future of Home Entertainment

Our entertainment habits and the nature of our online life are shifting beneath our feet. According to Sandvine, a network analytics firm, Netflix is...

Foresight’s Nanotech Conference at Google June 25-26 ($50 OFF To Hub Readers!)

Back in 1986, when dinosaurs roamed the Earth and shoulderpads were popular, forward minded scientists and friends gathered together to form the Foresight Institute...

Cisco Announces Internet Will Quadruple by 2015! (video)

Cisco is a giant in tech and telecomm - a giant with prophetic visions. Every June it releases its Visual Networking Index (VNI), a...

iRobot Teams Up With Google – AVA Pedestal Robot With Tablet For A Head (video)

Finally Android tablets are going to be able to live up to their names. At the recent Google I/O conference, Colin Angle of iRobot...

Social Network Information Overload? Greplin Lets You Search Your Digital Life

You have a Facebook wall, Twitter feed, Gmail account, Dropbox, and LinkedIn profile. What you don't have is the time to manage all these...

Need a Dermatologist in Your iPhone? There’s an App for That.

It's time to show some me some skin. Don't worry, it's for your own good. The latest medical app for your smart phone aims...

How To Live Forever….The Documentary (trailer)

Baby boomers are getting old quickly, and while all of them have to struggle to deal with that, at least one has made a...

Steal This Meme: Why Understanding Internet Culture Will Make You Sexy, Rich, and Powerful

I'm here to talk memes. Internet memes. And if you think they're just about trendy videos, cute cats, and dancing babies then think again....

$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...
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