Contact lens with high-res capability could theoretically replace almost every screen we look at on a day-to-day basis. And totally molest our notions of reality, existence, and whether blue is really blue. What is “blue,” anyway?
Nov 252011
Nov 242011
Yasakawa Japan has retrofitted one of their robots with an off the shelf MS Kinect. And just like that, telepresence takes a huge leap forward.
November 24, 2011
CareBots, Cybernetics, Exoskeleton, Future Already Very Pending, Human Augmentation, Internet, Japan 日本 Tekk, Medical Robots, Medical Technology, Microsoft, Prosthetics, Robot, Technology, Technology & Labor, Technology & Work, Telepresence, The Beginning is Near, We're Already Cyborgs Already
Nov 022011
Most humanoid robots are just a set of legs with big flat feet balancing a dead-center torso doing an awkward slow-mo hula dance. But watch PETMAN. Really watch. It’s like witnessing a birth.
November 2, 2011
AI, Artificial Intelligence, Boston Dynamics, Cybernetics, DARPA, Drone, Future Already Very Pending, Here First or Best Here, Military Robotics, Multimedia, Robot, Technology, WarBots
Oct 292011
Actually, I give props to MS for producing these videos. The whole chicken/egg life-imitating-art and the inverse thereof motivation factor inherent in SCI-FI should never be dismissed.
October 29, 2011
AI, Artificial Intelligence, Cybernetics, Future Already Very Pending, Microsoft, Technology, Technology & Work, Telepresence, The Beginning is Near
Oct 282011
Lots of cash is needed for the Luke Arm or the Stark Hand other super-tech prosthetics, so there’s obviously great value in augmenting and/or retrofitting the prosthetics people already have – and this one’s a technological timeline dissonance matryoshka!
October 28, 2011
Cybernetics, Exoskeleton, Human Augmentation, Medical Technology, Prosthetics, Technology, We're Already Cyborgs Already
Oct 272011
Whether you think The Singularity is near or far, agree or disagree, have weird religious fervor for or against it, or aren’t interested at all, you’d be foolish not to pay attention to who’s paying attention to the concept.
October 27, 2011
AI, Artificial Intelligence, Brain, Cybernetics, Future Already Very Pending, Human Augmentation, Kurzweil, NBI, Neurology, Robot, Singularity, Technology, The Beginning is Near, Transhuman, Transhumanism
Oct 212011
Juan Enriquez says the ability to re-engineer living things and engineer entirely new ones is far and away the biggest thing since a bunch of other big things (even bigger than the industrial revolution). So… Cool, yeah?