Sometimes the iPhone deserves the love it gets, and Microsoft Photosynth and Autodesk’s 123D Catch Apps are reasons why. Oh, and this phone-based 3D modeling thingy probably heralds China’s impending economic collapse and stuff.
Sep 202012
Jul 312012
A new device gives the blind 576 pixels of vision, and that’s awesome. But this and other developments herald the infancy of something much more profound: Having your healthy, functional eyes removed and replaced with something far better. HOT DAMN!
July 31, 2012
Aging Society, Bioengineering, Bionic, Brain, Cybernetics, Future Already Very Pending, Genomics, Here First or Best Here, Human Augmentation, Kurzweil, Medical Technology, Neurology, Prosthetics, Technology, Technology & Disability, Transhumanism, Transhumanism Test Pilots, We're Already Cyborgs Already
Jul 252012
Considerably deeper than Gee Whiz Techno-Fetishism or Alarmist Technological Conservatism, Al-Jazeera correspondants and producers are probably providing the most unbiased and uneditorialized WarBot coverage out there.
July 25, 2012
AI, Boston Dynamics, Cybernetics, DARPA, Drone, Exoskeleton, Future Already Very Pending, Military Robotics, Multimedia, Northrup, Robot, Technology, Technology & Politics, U.S.A., WarBots
Jul 182012
Getting a 2000lb. (907KG) nuclear-powered super-sensitive rover the size of a Mini Cooper to Mars, in one piece, and then have it go about its science and report back… well, the effort alone is monumental, and its success will be entirely profound.
Jun 292012
Reapers and Predators and the like aren’t robots, they’re super-tech R/C planes with some nice autopilot and guns & missiles, right? Right? Well, since the domestic drone market is heating up now as well, it might be a good idea to figure this out.
Jun 212012
Who doesn’t love an environmentally minded businessman who can streamline sustainable, automated home food production with extant technologies and CRUSH foolish hippies with his green street cred!? Vote FishyFarm!
Jun 192012
Apocalyptic proclamations usually involve a fanatic and the book of his or her spooky vengeful father figure in the sky, but sometimes they’re delivered by a group of gangly, socially awkward lab coats packing a peer-reviewed scientific journal!