Yearly Archives: 2011

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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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...

Norwegian Boy Stuns Viewers With Now Famous Robot Dance (video)

I'm not sure what the world loves more: cute robots, or cute kids. Luckily, 10 year old Tord from Norway is a little bit...
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iRobot’s Latest Military Bot Is a Pocket-Sized Spy Tank You Can Throw (video)

It takes a lot of courage to run into a firefight. It takes a lot of robotics to not have to. iRobot recently unveiled...

Open Source Robot, DARwIn-OP, Shows Off at RoboGames 2011 (video)

The original Charles Darwin taught the world about the origin of species. The DARwIn-OP may teach the world about the evolution of robots. The...

Brazilian “RoboCop” Security Goggles Over-Hyped, We’ve Got the Real Facts

For most, the eyes and face are windows to the soul, but for the bad guys at the 2014 World Cup, it could be...

Control YouTube With Your Voice!

If surfing YouTube for videos is just too grueling of a task for you, don't worry. A developer in Idaho has recently created a...

Kurzweil’s Talk At Presidential Conference in Israel Now Available for Free (video)

If at first you don't succeed in convincing the world that a Technological Singularity is near then try, try again. Ray Kurzweil has been...

Exoskeletal Arm Support From Equipois to be Released in June

Gravity can be a pain, literally.  Any of you who work in a factory, lab, operating room, or any other setting that requires repetitive...

100,000 Toothpicks and 37 Years Later, Man Completes Incredible Model Of San Francisco

For all you ping pong balls out there, get ready to take a tour of San Francisco that will blow your fictional minds. Since...

What is the Future of Books? Kindle Lending Library, Piracy, and More!

Going to your local public library? Don't forget your e-reader. Amazon recently announced that their new Kindle Lending Library feature will be arriving "later...

Immortal Jellyfish Provides Clues for Regenerative Medicine

The search for the fountain of youth has been ongoing ever since man decided that dying wasn’t all that appealing. And now, it appears...

The Rise of Gen-CS? Computer Science Interest at Stanford Skyrocketing

Something strange is afoot at Stanford University’s Computer Science Department. About five years ago, the top-ranked department had seen much better days. The dot-com...

Phenomenal Video Footage of Extreme Sports From RC Helicopters

There are spies in the skies, and they're trying to catch you doing something awesome. As remote controlled flying drones have become more sophisticated...

Look Out Humans – This FRIDA Robot From ABB Will Take Your Factory Job

If a human worker can do it, why not a robot? Swiss robotics giant ABB recently unveiled a new concept robot that showcases how...

Cool Videos of the Robonova-1 Humanoid Robot

Surviving in the field of toy robotics isn't easy - it takes durability, versatility, and no small measure of charm. Robonova-1 has been a...

Pharm. Company Roche Blocking Blindness Cure. Why?

Many great scientific discoveries were born out of pure accident.  How about curing blindness in only one or two treatments with a drug that...

Wow! Model Factory Made With Lego Robots Moves 48 Items Per Minute (video)

Chris Shepherd, you are a Lego god. In his continuing obsession with all things Lego, robotic, and awesome, Shepherd recently constructed the Lego Quad...
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Incredible Video of California Woman’s Hand Transplant

The latest recipient of a hand transplant is coping well in Los Angeles. On March 5th, Emily Fennel, age 26, received a donor right...

Google Brings Map Maker to the US. Crowd Sourced Maps Are the Future (video)

Congratulations, you've just been hired by Google. In a quest to bring high-quality digital maps to every corner of the globe, Google produced Map...

Willow Garage Is Selling An Amateur Level Robot! Say Hi To TurtleBot (video)

For those that have been drooling over Willow Garage's PR2, the Silicon Valley robotics company has a way to curb your hunger. Starting early...

Lots of Bots and Tots at Stanford’s Robot Block Party (video)

Have no fear of an upcoming war between machines and humans, the fact is that the war has already been fought in the hearts...

Organic Farmers Unite Against Monsanto In Battle For Future of Food

Another chapter in the ongoing David-and-Goliath-esque saga between organic farmers and the Monsanto Company kicked off recently with a lawsuit filed in federal court....

World’s Oldest Man Dies at 114, Thanks For All The Wisdom Walter Breuning

"We're all going to die. Some people are scared of dying. Never be afraid to die. Because you're born to die." -- Walter Breuning The...

Skynet Becomes Aware, Launches Nuclear Attack On Humanity

Hide ya kids, hide ya wife! According to the Terminator franchise, at 8:11 PM today (April 19th), the military-designed artificial intelligence system called Skynet...

Transcendent Man Plays In San Francisco. Here’s A Transcript of Q&A Session

Even a great film is better when played in front of the right crowd. Transcendent Man, Barry Ptolemy's documentary on the life and ideas...

Limitless Movie Thrills, But What’s The Future of Smart Pills?

Limitless is a film about Eddie Morra, a man who just wants to do his best. He’s ingesting a smart drug, or nootropic, named NZT-48...

I’ve Got Pictures of that Mysterious “Apple Robot” You Were Asking About!

A few weeks ago, a video of a mysterious rolling robot made it's way through the blogosphere raising a few questions as to whether...

Robots Take Over Hospital Pharmacy as Human Pill-Counting Talents Go To Waste (VIDEO)

A new pharmacy supplying medicine to the UCSF Medical Center is currently under the control of a handful of Swiss and Canadian robots that...

Crowd Sourced Choir Sings Over Internet With the Power of 2000 Voices (video)

The internet has quickly become the place where everyone's voice can be heard...literally. The Virtual Choir project collected 2052 self-made recordings of people performing...

John Nolan’s Incredible Animatronics Turn Nightmares into Robots (video)

Suburban dads with pig heads, dead mice, road kill squirrels, and mewling premature babies - these are just some of the disturbing images that...

G-Dog Robot Is a Humanoid’s Best Friend (video)

They may not be as cuddly as their furry biological counterparts, but training a robot dog involves far fewer ruined carpets, and many more...

Billionaire Thrillseeker Richard Branson to Pilot a Submarine to The Deepest Parts of the Ocean (video)

After conquering space, what’s a billionaire to do? Conquer the oceans, of course. Later this year, Virgin mogul Sir Richard Branson plans to launch a series...

Exclusive Offer – 2 for 1 Tickets to Transcendent Man in San Francisco, Thurs. April 14th

Want to watch a movie with me? The Transcendent Man documentary is coming to San Francisco tomorrow night, and I have a sweet deal...

Kurzweil Visits Colbert Report, Transcendent Man Ready for Mainstream? (video)

The Singularity may be near, but Stephen Colbert's comedy hits much closer to home. Ray Kurzweil, noted author and futurist, visited the set of...

Anybots Has An Army of Telepresence Robots Ready to Send Your Way!

There's little in this world that will frustrate us technophile types more than having to wait for our robots to arrive in the mail....

160,000+ Watch Virtual Popstar Hatsune Miku Return to the Stage (video)

She's beautiful, she's talented, she's immensely popular...and she's not real. Hatsune Miku the virtual popstar creation of Crypton Future Media in Japan, has sold...

Is Aged-Based HIV/AIDS Testing the Key to Stamping Out the Disease?

HIV/AIDS is a huge health problem in the world and a cure still seems years away.  Yet even though a cure has eluded us, testing...

First New Treatment for Lupus Erythematosus in Over Fifty Years!

A small, but significant victory has been won in the war against lupus, one of the most debilitating systemic auto-immune diseases. The US FDA...

X-Ray Vision: Handheld Radar Allows Army/Security To Look Inside Walls

A portable device the the size of a textbook promises to give army and security personnel the x-ray vision of Superman...only without the x-rays....

Watch the US Navy Use A Laser Beam to Set a Boat on Fire (video)

Naval combat is finally entering the 21st Century. Last Wednesday, April 6th, the Office of Naval Research conducted a test of their Maritime Laser...
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