Yearly Archives: 2011

Free DNA Analysis From 23andMe – Good Gimmick, Tired Technology?

It's the biggest sale of the spring, and it's available right now in every cell in your body. Personal genomics pioneers, 23andMe are offering...

Robot Bartenders Call The Shots At BarBot 2011 (video)

You know what I love about geeks? They understand that the only thing better than a nice cold drink is a nice cold drink...

New Disposable, Medical Camera Is the Size of a Grain of Salt

Thanks to a German research institute, in the very near future, we may not even see the cameras looking back at us at all. It...

Scientist Records 230,000 Hours of Son’s Childhood: What It Means and What’s Next

The unexamined life is not worth living. – Socrates When Deb Roy’s son invites his girlfriend over for dinner with his family, there will be much...

Surgical Robot Folds Tiny Paper Plane And Lets It Fly (video)

Sure, when I make a paper airplane it's goofing off, but when a robot does it, it's a phenomenal PR campaign. Doctor James Porter,...

eTextbooks and Educational Apps: iPads Enter the Classroom

Rolling backpacks are lame.  There, I said it.  No one wants to be that kid rolling into class, crushing people’s toes and running into...

Brain Computer Implant Still Working in Patient 1000 Days Later

The latest report from academia: when you hack someone's brain to turn them into a cyborg, count on it lasting for a few years....

DaVinci Surgical Robot Plays ‘Operation’ Board Game, Saves Cardboard Life (Video)

Modern life teaches us funny lessons like: if you can't win at a child's board game, use a multimillion dollar robot to cheat. PhD...

Robot Replicants Gather With Their Originals In World’s Creepiest Reunion (video)

There are only a handful of people in the world who can say they have a robotic clone of themselves, and most of them...

Robotic Musicians Push Boundaries of What Machines and Instruments Can Do (video)

The next wave of upcoming musicians don't have soul. Or heart. Or even blood. That's because these cutting edge instrumentalists are robots. Expressive Machines...

A Liquid Biopsy Test on the Market? A $30 Million Partnership May Finally Make it Happen

As Singularity Hub followers are well aware, it’s an exciting time in cancer screening. We’ve recently highlighted a number of new technologies that are...

Exclusive Interview With Barry Ptolemy, Director of Kurzweil Documentary Transcendent Man

How do you get everyone to sit up and pay attention to the idea of the Singularity? Make it entertaining. No doubt about it,...

As Safer Fetal Genetic Tests Arrive, Abortions Could Rise

The impending  arrival of non-invasive prenatal diagnosis (NIPD) will allow more parents than ever before to discover congenital disorders early in pregnancy...but will it...

Cynthia Breazeal at TED: We’re Making Robots Personal (video)

"People just behave like people, even when interacting with a robot." -- Cynthia Breazeal 2010 Forget the automated factories, the Mars rovers, and the vacuum...

10,000 Shipping Containers Lost At Sea Each Year…Here’s a Look At One

Right now, as you read this, there are five or six million shipping containers on enormous cargo ships sailing across the world's oceans. And...

Japan’s Twimal USB Device Will Read Your Twitter Feed to You (video)

Some people will go to great lengths to enable their Twitter addiction. Japan created an entirely new species. The Twitter Animal, or Twimal, from...

Kurzweil Is Confident Machines Will Pass Turing Test by 2029 (video)

It continues to be a good Spring for Ray Kurzweil. Not only has the media been rather kind to him lately, some of his...

Ad Network Monitors 76% of US – Knows What You Buy, What You Want

In tens of thousands of stores in the US and EU, a marketing company is monitoring how you shop. 150 million shoppers, 250 million...

Watch the Wifi: Visually Stunning Look at the Digital World Invading Cities (video)

Much as our ancestors may have envisioned the spirit world permeating and flowing through our mundane existence, we can only imagine the complex web...

Google Chooses Kansas City as Home of New Gigabit Fiber Network (video)

The modern era of broadband internet lead to the rise of downloadable music, massively multiplayer online gaming, a surge in e-commerce and much more....
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Parrot’s AR Drone Shows Off Its Skills in New York City (video)

There are dozens of cool accessories you can buy for your iPhone, but a flying robot spy with augmented reality has to be at...
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Teroos – The Telepresence Robot You Wear On Your Shoulder (video)

Attention all pirates of the future, I've just found the 21st century version of the squawking parrot sidekick. Developed at the Anzai-Mai Lab at...

Jeddah’s Kingdom Tower, World’s Tallest Building Given the Go Ahead

Bigger is better. At least, that’s what they’re saying about their skyscrapers in the Middle East these days. And for the new Kingdom Tower...

CNBC Gives 5 Minutes to Robots vs Economy Debate (video)

How important are robots? Well, that depends, how important is your job, the economy, and the future of world stability? As automation plays an...

PaPeRo Is the TeleRobot Cute Enough To Kill Your Landline and Take Its Place

When you're a super cute blushing robot, humans will let you get away with murder. Especially if the thing you're killing is dying a...

Nanotech Implant Monitors for Cancer and Now Heart Attacks, Too

Heart attacks and cancer account for nearly half of all deaths in the United States - they're the two biggest killers walking the streets,...

Festo Built An Artificial Bird (video)

The latest addition to the robotic zoo moves so gracefully you can hardly believe it's a machine. Festo's Bionic Learning Network has been creating...

Can’t Find a Stamp? Just Reach For Your Phone

Don’t you just hate it when you can’t find any stamps?  Your birthday was two weeks ago, you still haven’t mailed those thank you...

Eye-Opening Visualization of RFID Fields (video)

How do you visualize something that is invisible? That's the challenge that Timo Arnall, Jack Schulze, and Einar Sneve Martinussen faced when they decided...

Japan’s Nuclear Woes Give Rise to Crowd-Sourced Radiation Maps In Asia and US

The world's eyes have been on Japan, watching the nation cope with earthquakes, tsunamis, and now the threat of poisoning from nuclear radiation. While...

Is This Video A Preview of Apple’s New Robot? I’ve Got Exclusive Info!

I love a good mystery, especially when I already know the answer. Early this week someone sent Sanford Dickert a grainy video of a...

Future of Genetically Modified Rice/Corn in China May Be Both Certain and Delayed

Even as China rushes to expand its crops to feed its growing populace, it faces regulatory snags and pitfalls. The State Council recently discussed...

Robot Domination: Automated Factory Sorts, Seals, and Ships With Little Human Contact

Robots are claiming an ever increasing portion of the manufacturing pie, and they don't even like pie. The latest example of the rise of...

Great 10 Minute Talks From Harvard – Modernity, Morality, and More (video)

Of the many things I love that are enabled by the internet, getting a free education has to be among the best. There are...

Great New Videos of Robot Suit HAL, The Exoskeleton From Cyberdyne

The cybernetically enhanced musclemen of the future have arrived! ...at Japanese nursing homes. Cyberdyne, makers of Robot Suit HAL, have been renting out the...

The Gostai Jazz Telebot Brings French Style to Mobile Telepresence

7:00 AM PST- Investor meeting in Berlin 12:00 PM PST- Lunch with wife in Seattle 2:00 PM PST- Walk and talk with CTO in NYC How is...

Lifelogging Invades the Delivery Room – Privacy in the Digital Age

The birth of a child is most certainly a momentous occasion, one that deserves to be recorded somehow. When I was born, video cameras...

US Life Expectancy is Up, Hits Record High of 78.2!

A new record high in US life expectancy raises the question, what will your children do with 0.2 more years of living? Well, that's...

The Most Human Human, Discusses Turing Test on Daily Show

How human are you? It's a question that strikes me as both absurd and deeply important. Brian Christian probably would agree. He was one...

Simple Blood Test Now Detects Prenatal Down Syndrome

Things are definitely on the move in the field of fetal screening. Researchers at the Cyprus Institute of Neurology and Genetics have developed a...

Salman Khan Describes the Video Education Revolution at TED

Salman Khan wants to change the world, and he's already started to transform the classroom. The founder of The Khan Academy, Salman has placed...

AI Journalist Helps You Talk Trash During March Madness

Sure, you claim that your team is better than everyone else's, but wouldn't you like to have the hard numbers to back that up?...

Robot Defeats iPhone Game in Record Time – Adept Quattro Showing Off Again!(video)

There are iPhone games out there that are so addictive they should be illegal. Luckily Adept Technology developed a cure: have a robot take...

50,000+ Download Android Flashlight App After Japanese Quake

Every global tragedy teaches humanity something about itself. Of the many lessons we may learn from the recent Japanese earthquake one could be this:...

Transhumanism in Opera: MIT Professor Creates Robotic Opera

As is the case in many an Opera, “It’s not over until the fat lady sings.”  In this case, a more appropriate version might...

Growing Human Organs — Dr. Anthony Atala Blows the Minds of a TED Audience

If there was ever a point in your career to unleash your inner magician, it’s at a TED conference, hands down. TED has emerged...

10,000 People Like Us…But We Want More!

Yesterday we crossed a pretty decent milestone here at the Hub - 10,000 people now "like" us on our Facebook page.  Although 10,000 fans...

Royal Rumble of Robots – Japanese Humanoids Battle in Massive Melee (video)

Some amateur robots competitions are about fine tuning your creations to show off your engineering prowess. Others are just about having a good time....

Android’s Google Maps App Automatically Tells You How to Beat Traffic

We may never have to get stuck in traffic again. Thank you, Google. A recent update of Google Maps Navigation (Beta), an app for...

Masdar City: A Closer Look at the City of the Future

Modern metropolises are proliferating malignancies of ravenous urban sprawl. Alright, that sentence is definitely laden with a hefty dose of theatrics, but we can...
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