January 2012 - Singularity Hub

eye3: The Robotic Copter That You Can Afford

Peter Murray - January 31, 2012

UPDATE: Kickstarter has cancelled funding for eye3 due to delayed deliveries, skepticism that the drone will actually work and suspicion that the eye3 kit...

All Your Bandwidth Are Belong To Us: Half Of World’s Bandwidth Consumed By Only 1% of Users

David J. Hill - January 31, 2012

It's tough being an avid mobile device user these days. First, carriers tempt you with the latest feature-packed devices while promising to satiate your...

40 Years After Moon Mission Made it Famous, NASA Recreates Iconic Picture of Earth – Blue Marble 2012

Aaron Saenz - January 30, 2012

If you want to see a pretty part of Earth, step outside. If you want to see all the pretty parts of Earth, step...

Kickstarter: We’re Succesful, We’re Growing, We’re Changing Whole Industries

Aaron Saenz - January 30, 2012

Five hundred years ago, most Western artists lived off the charity of wealthy patrons. Today, you are that patron, and with Kickstarter you'll be...

Need a New Assistant? Evi Makes a Bid to Replace Siri on iPhone and Android

Aaron Saenz - January 29, 2012

When the iPhone 4S arrived last fall, one of the most talked about, and lauded, features was Siri, the virtual assistant. Able to understand...

Sebastian Thrun Aims to Revolutionize University Education With Udacity

Peter Murray - January 28, 2012

This past August fellow Singularity Hub writer Aaron Saenz wrote about Udacity, the online university created by Stanford artificial intelligence professor and Google autonomous...

SkyLight Adapter Connects Microscopes To Smartphones

Peter Murray - January 27, 2012

The SkyLight is really a simple device derived to solve a simple problem: how to keep your smartphone still enough to take high quality...

iRobot CEO Discusses Their New Robot AVA

Peter Murray - January 26, 2012

We found this video from CNNMoney, about AVA, iRobot’s latest personal assistance robot. We’ve covered AVA before, how it’s basically an iPad (or notebook)...

Embryonic Stem Cells Used To Improve Vision Of Blind Patients

Peter Murray - January 26, 2012

Macular degeneration had left Sue Freeman, 78, legally blind. She couldn’t go for a walk by herself, she couldn’t go shopping or even cook...

Rollin’ Justin Robot Gets Agile, Learns How To Throw A Ball (video)

Peter Murray - January 25, 2012

Where was Agile Justin last year when we needed him to throw out the first pitch at a Philadelphia Phillies game? The PhillieBot was...

Police Are Making A Scanner To Detect Concealed Weapons 80 Feet Away (video)

Peter Murray - January 25, 2012

The New York Police Department is working with the Department of Defense to develop a scanning device that would allow them to detect concealed...

CES 2012 and Consumer Robotics: Informative yet confusing… and bad food!

Frank Tobe - January 24, 2012

CES 2012 was a mammoth display of the trend toward smart, connected devices for every form of consumer activity: toys, appliances, entertainment, health, mobility,...

MIT Media Lab Rolls Out Folding Car

Peter Murray - January 24, 2012

You think European cars are small now, wait till the Hiriko takes to the roads in Spain’s northern Basque country. The two-seater is about...

Apple’s iBooks Praises Begin To Wither As Skepticism Settles In

David J. Hill - January 24, 2012

Apple started off 2012 with the $10 billion textbook market in its crosshairs. Last week, the company unveiled iBooks 2, the next iteration of...

Raspberry Pi Founder Eben Upton Walks You Through the Launch of the $35 Computer

Aaron Saenz - January 23, 2012

In just a few weeks UK's Raspberry Pi Foundation will be ready to launch one of the most anticipated products of 2012 – a...

On the Internet of Things IBM Tracks Your Pork From Farm to Fork. Starting with China

Aaron Saenz - January 23, 2012

IBM has set out to prove it can revolutionize the food industry with data, starting with China. Six industrial slaughterhouses and 100 markets in...

2012 a Big Year for MakerBot – New 3D Printer, $Millions in Funding, and Huge Growth Ahead

Aaron Saenz - January 22, 2012

Three years ago they had three employees and were still trying to keep their equipment from breaking down. Now MakerBot employs 75, has millions...

Why Don’t We Have Abundant Solar Power? Blame Financing, and Industry, not Science

Aaron Saenz - January 21, 2012

In the world of renewable energy resources, solar power is the epitome - abundant, reliable, and green. For decades scientists and engineers have been...

Is the iPad the Future of Education? Students in Palm Beach Florida Find Out

Aaron Saenz - January 20, 2012

Failing national school system? iPad might have an App for that. The Palm Beach School District in Florida finished their Pilot Program for iPad...

Ripsaw and Riptide – High Speed Tanks Rampage Across Land and Water

Aaron Saenz - January 19, 2012

For more than a century the tank has been a centerpiece of war – the seemingly unstoppable juggernaut that brought devastation in the Blitzkrieg,...

Call of Duty Video Game Reaches $1 Billion In Sales In 16 days, Faster Than Cameron’s Avatar

David J. Hill - January 19, 2012

Modern Warfare 3 (MW3), the eighth in the Call of Duty series, made an astonishing $400 million in sales in the first 24 hours...

Shrugging Off Dependence On US, China Launching Its Own GPS Satellites

Peter Murray - January 19, 2012

What would it mean to lose GPS? Not only would we resort to that archaic method of writing down and following directions, but many...

Q&A with Dutch Futurist Marcel Bullinga as His Latest Book Looks to 2025

Aaron Saenz - January 18, 2012

If the global community of futurists were an ice cream shop, Marcel Bullinga would be the banana split: big, colorful, fun, and a little...

China’s Newest Train Hits 500 km/h! Only a Taste of What’s To Come

Aaron Saenz - January 18, 2012

What did China get for Christmas? A train set that goes 500 km/h. The experimental bullet train, which can reach top speeds over 310...

Daniel Kraft Gives You a Peek of the Future of Medicine at TEDMED

Aaron Saenz - January 17, 2012

Modern healthcare is sick, but Dr. Daniel Kraft knows a little something about the cure. At the 2011 TEDMED conference in San Diego, the...

India Finds Cases Of Tuberculosis Completely Resistant To Drugs

Peter Murray - January 17, 2012

This is scary. A report out of India identifies four new cases of tuberculosis that are completely resistant to drug treatment. They gave all four...

Liquipel – An Invisible Waterproof Nano-Coating For Your Smartphone (video)

Peter Murray - January 16, 2012

Raise your hand if you’ve ever dropped your smartphone in the toilet. Don't feel bad, according to Danny McPhail, president of Santa Anna, California-based...

Hold Off On That Glass Just Yet – Red Wine Researcher Charged With Falsifying Data

Peter Murray - January 15, 2012

The next time you toast a Cabernet Sauvignon to your heart health, you might be better off just toasting Tim Tebow. The much-touted health...

Raspberry Pi is About to be Served – Manufacturing Has Begun for the $35 Computer

Aaron Saenz - January 14, 2012

What do you feel like doing, going out for dinner or buying a computer? The computer's probably cheaper. In a joyful moment for the...

Doomsday Clock Brings Us One Minute Closer To The Apocalypse

Peter Murray - January 12, 2012

Did you know there was a Doomsday Clock? Well, it’s not a real clock that ticks down the remaining moments in hours and minutes...

Mogees Acoustic Interface Transforms the World into Your Turntable

Aaron Saenz - January 12, 2012

Art and technology make beautiful music together. Bruno Zamborlin is a young joint PhD student in both computational technologies and art at IRCAM in...

Senstore Wants To Make A Tricorder That Monitors The Entire Body

Peter Murray - January 12, 2012

What a great place that Singularity University is. Smart, motivated people coming together to make the world a better place through technology. This past...

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