Yearly Archives: 2012

Paralyzed Man Regains Use Of Hands After Having Nerves Rewired

A quadriplegic man has regained partial control of his hands after doctors rewired the nerves in his arm. The 71-year-old patient suffered a spinal cord injury...

Companies Making The Necessary Transition From Industrial To Service Robots

The robotics industry is on the cusp of a major transformation. Today’s factory robots are solitary precision instruments, mimicking the repertoire of capabilities of...

Canon Camera Factory To Go Fully Automated, Phase Out Human Workers

In the second Star Wars prequel, Attack Of The Clones, C3PO walks into a droid factory and exclaims, "Machines building machines? How perverse!" Although it...

Buttons Morph Out Of Your Touchscreen With Tactus

So you love your touchscreen tablet, smartphone, and dashboard. But then you still have those moments when your fingers are missing that tactile feel,...

Screwed by ZionEyez? Vergence Labs Will Give You A Pair of Their Video Glasses for Free!

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3D Printing Is The Future Of Manufacturing And Neri Oxman Shows How Beautiful It Can Be

To be on forefront of a cutting edge field like 3D printing, the skill set required is pretty stacked. You need to be a...

Meet ROBOT-Rx, The Robot Pharmacist Doling Out 350 Million Doses Per Year

Come to think of it, why do we still have pharmacists? I mean, how hard is it to count by “twos”? I’m just kidding...

Facial Recognition Software Distinguishes Between Real And Phony Smiles

Con-artists, deceivers, and fakers take note: feigning emotion to manipulate others is about to get a lot harder. Researchers at the MIT Media Lab have...

Quadcopters Make 3D Scans Of Historic Buildings

Humans continue to make their lives easier with drones. Small-sized unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are already chasing after wanton criminals, inspecting contaminated power plants,...

LED Eyeshadow, The Latest In The World Of Battery-Operated Fashion

Maybe if I went to all-night raves with colorful little glowy sticks and jammed to Paul Oakenfold (uh oh, is he old already?) this...

World’s First Wikipedia Town Won’t Be The Last

Toss out the travel guide and grab your smartphone -- a new urban project has transformed a small town in Wales into the world's...

First Stem Cell-Based Therapy Gets Approved – In Canada

A medical treatment that uses stem cells derived from bone marrow has just been approved in Canada. The drug, Prochymal, has already been used...

Robotic Quintet Composes And Plays Its Own Music

The German engineering firm Festo has developed a self-playing robotic string quintet that will listen to a piece of music and generate new musical...

Inaugural Synthetic Biology Incubator SynBio Launches At Singularity University

A bold, new venture took flight recently with the initiation of the SynBio Startup Launchpad, Singularity University's inaugural accelerator program in synthetic biology. Aimed at vaulting entrepreneurs with rapid-cycle,...

Larry Page: With A Healthy Disregard For The Impossible, People Can Do Almost Anything

In a talk titled "Beyond Today", Google's CEO Larry Page infused Zeitgeist 2012 attendees with a healthy dose of optimism and a call to make...

The Era Of Commercialized Space Has Begun – SpaceX, Musk Triumphant

The era of commercial spaceflight has begun. Early Friday morning SpaceX, a private company with less than 2,000 employees and and average age of 30,...

Now Serving The Latest In Exponential Growth: YouTube!

It goes without saying that YouTube has become the quintessential online video source for amateurs and professionals alike, but on the service's seven-year anniversary,...

Telomerase Gene Therapy Extends Lives Of Mice By Up To 24 Percent

Scientists are doing their best to give us the gift of immortality. The latest in the fight against ever dying is a gene therapy...

Study Suggests Coffee Is Healthy, Coffee Drinkers Are Not

Older adults who drink coffee have a lower risk of death by about 10 percent, according to a large observational study of over 400,000...

Our Cyborg Future: Man Embeds Magnets In Wrist To Make Strapless Watch

Like to keep track of time and enjoy music on your iPod nano, but can’t tolerate those cumbersome bands and straps? Just surgically implant...

Submit to the Robots! …Or At Least To Their Film Festival. RFF 2012 Coming July 14th to NYC

**Update** The submission deadline for RFF 2012 has been extended from June 7th to June 15th! It's about time that the future of cinema reflected...

Leap 3D Offers Amazing Gesture-Based Control of Your Computer for Just $70

For the last six years, game consoles have been the developers hot spot for motion control, but finally good old computers are getting some...

Satellites Track Humans, Now It’s The Animals’ Turn

Satellite technology is a modern-day "Wonder of the World." Consider that currently over 1,000 active satellites orbit the Earth, communicating with ground-based transmitters and receivers for...

“Good” Cholesterol Not So Good After All, New Study Shows

The revelation that high-density lipoprotein, or HDL, is the “good cholesterol” has suffered a major blow. A meta-study involving over a hundred thousand participants...

New Study Shows Gene Therapy For HIV Safe After A Decade

A clinical trial testing a gene therapy for HIV patients is now 11 years old. Recently, the researchers running the study published an examination...

Google Search Gets Smarter With Knowledge Graph

This week Google is rolling out a new search tool: the Knowledge Graph. Breaking with the old strategy of keywords and webpages, Knowledge Graph...

Paralyzed Woman Controls Robotic Arm With Her Thoughts

Cathy Hutchinson hasn't moved her limbs of her own volition for 15 years, but by imagining she was using her own hand, she controlled...

New Video Humorously Imagines Life In The Singularity And All Its Potential Legal Woes

What will post-Singularity life be like in 2052 if you died and your mind was uploaded to a computer? Possibly mired in data rate...

Scientists Make Bird Flu Transmissible Between Humans Then Tell World How To Do It

The emergence of the avian flu in 2003 caused alarm around the world as it spread through countries in Asia, leaving victims in its...

Let the Computer Talk – Speech Synthesis is Giving Machines the Chance to Have Their Voices Heard

Just a week after Easter, Coachella music festival was shaken by the ghostly visage of slain rapper Tupac Shakur, resurrected to strut the stage...

Harvard And MIT Join Forces To Become Juggernaut Of Free Online Education

Online education is witnessing its own Avengers-like uniting of superhero forces as Harvard University and MIT recently announced "edX", a combined $60 million joint initiative to...

Retailer Uses Facebook “Like” Count On Clothes Hooks To Crowdsource Fashion Advice

The Brazilian fashion retailer C&A has created networked clothes hooks that display the total number of Facebook "Likes" for each garment in real time....

Younger Generation Embracing A New View Of Privacy

For four years, nearly 200 high school students in Dallas voluntarily allowed every text, email, and IM to be monitored. That these youth would sign...

Controversial Anti-Aging Chemical Resveratrol Back In The Spotlight With New Details About How It Works

Resveratrol, the famed anti-aging supplement extracted from red wine, has experienced its share of controversy. An experimental artifact, a pair of studies that questioned...

Toothless No More – Researchers Using Stem Cells to Grow New Teeth

It may be hard to remember what it was like to lose a tooth as a child, but many adults get an unpleasant reminder...

Automation Comes To The Coffeehouse With Robotic Baristas

Say goodbye to lattes with funky tastes or attitude from coffeehouse baristas. At the University of Texas, a startup called Briggo LLC has installed...

Green Light For Google’s Driverless Car As It Receives First Autonomous License

We knew Nevada was serious about becoming the first state to adopt driverless cars when the governor signed a law last year requiring the...

Robots Poised To Take Over Your Living Room As 3D Systems Acquires My Robot Nation

The months old startup My Robot Nation was recently acquired by high-end 3D printing company, 3D Systems, adding yet another tool in their arsenal...

Connect The Physical World To The Web With Ninja Blocks

Most of us live in two separate worlds, the real world and the digital world of the Internet. Some strides are being made, like...

Exclusive Interview with COO of Drchrono: iPads + Medicine = The Future

Meet Drchrono, the free app for your mobile device that could revolutionize healthcare in the modern world. Founded by Daniel Kivatinos and Michael Nusimow,...

Retinal Implants Restore Partial Sight To Three Blind

The blind really are beginning to see again. After receiving retinal implants in a trial, two people in the UK and one in China...

Better, Faster, and Cheaper – These Robots Are Invading Car Manufacturing Plants

Does anyone doubt that it really is just a matter of time before human assembly line workers are a thing of the past? And...

Handheld 3D Scanner Lets You Digitize Objects And Rooms In Minutes

A Silicon Valley startup wants to give you the power to "scan your world" with a handheld scanner that rapidly creates 3D maps of...

360° Panoramic Video Lets You Capture Everything Around You With Your Smartphone

Have you ever recorded video of an important event with your smartphone only to discover later that people were out of frame or the...

New Device Automatically Slices and Scans Brains, Then Puts Them Into A Google Map

Forget all those hours of slicing your mouse brain in to sections, snapping images, and then manually putting them back together. Researchers have come...

Want A Robot At Home? Qbo Is Up For Pre-order

Been dreaming of a having a robot at home but want something more than Romo the iPhone robot and can’t afford to lease an...

NAO Robot Impresses With New Abilities At Paris Conference

During the first weekend in April, the French maker of NAO robots, Aldebaran Robotics, organized the first ever NAO Spring Dev Days in Paris,...

Same Kidney Transplanted Twice

Twenty-seven-year-old Ray Fearing suffered from focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (FSGS), a common type of kidney disease, and needed a new kidney. His 24-year-old sister, Cera...

What’s In A Picture? The Descriptive Camera Will Tell You

What if a camera could not only take a picture but describe the scene, identify objects, and list the names of people within it?...

Movie Theaters Ramp Up For The Next Big Thing: Satellite Delivery Of Digital Films

Technology is taking over Hollywood, and in more ways than digital films and 3D movies. This year's CinemaCon, the official convention of the National...
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