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
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 252011
THIS time the machines mean business! Heh, heh. Heh. Okay – but really. You know, Excel put a bunch of accountants on unemployment, but the world needed fewer people who like working as accountants anyway.
October 25, 2011
Industrial Robots, Medical Robots, Military Robotics, NBI, Robot, Technology & Labor, Technology & Politics, Technology & Work
Oct 192011
As with the music industry and various other institutional relics, or as the internet has done to newspapers & magazines and small-time meatspace columnists, the gate-keeping model of long-format publishing is about to be sidestepped, leapfrogged, or just kind of outmoded by emerging technologies.
October 19, 2011
Internet, Technology, Technology & Work, Terminal Anachronism