Leaping Across Mori’s Uncanny Valley: Androids Probably Won’t Creep Us Out

Dec 062011
 
Leaping Across Mori’s Uncanny Valley: Androids Probably Won’t Creep Us Out

We WANT to see human traits in other entities. Androids aren’t going to reach that point where they’re just human enough to be creepy, yet not quite human enough to accept – they’re going to leap past it.

 December 6, 2011  Posted by at 11:02 AM AI, Artificial Intelligence, Cybernetics, Future Already Very Pending, Here First or Best Here, Human Augmentation, Japan 日本 Tekk, Japan「日本」, Multimedia, NBI, Prosthetics, Robot, Robot Emotions, Robot Love, Technology, Technology & Work, Telepresence, Transhuman, Transhumanism, We're Already Cyborgs Already

Augmented Reality in a Contact Lens: Profound Philosophical Quandary! Ish…

Nov 252011
 
Augmented Reality in a Contact Lens: Profound Philosophical Quandary! Ish...

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?

 November 25, 2011  Posted by at 10:22 AM Bionic, Brain, Consciousness, Cybernetics, Existential Quandary Stuff, Future Already Very Pending, Here First or Best Here, Human Augmentation, Neurology, Prosthetics, Technology, Technology & Work, Telepresence, Transhumanism, We're Already Cyborgs Already

Moving a Robot/With a Kinect/Over the Internets/Is a Revolution

Nov 242011
 
Moving a Robot/With a Kinect/Over the Internets/Is a Revolution

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  Posted by at 11:50 AM 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

The Brain During Orgasm: fMRI Knows Exactly How Women Feel

Nov 222011
 
The Brain During Orgasm: fMRI Knows Exactly How Women Feel

What are people thinking in the lead-up to an orgasm? Could be a fascinating, lucrative, or a potentially horrifying reveal on human nature. A PhD candidate at Rutgers climbed into an MRI machine an rubbed one out for science. Go science, go!

 November 22, 2011  Posted by at 2:13 PM AI, Artificial Intelligence, Brain, Future Already Very Pending, Here First or Best Here, Human Augmentation, Medical Technology, NBI, Neurology, Technology, We're Already Cyborgs Already

Prosthetic with Nokia Smartphone Dock: An Anachronism Trapped in an Anachronism!

Oct 282011
 
Prosthetic with Nokia Smartphone Dock: An Anachronism Trapped in an Anachronism!

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  Posted by at 12:54 PM Cybernetics, Exoskeleton, Human Augmentation, Medical Technology, Prosthetics, Technology, We're Already Cyborgs Already

iPhone 5 Hyper-Anticipation: I Don’t Think it Means What You Think it Means

Oct 052011
 
iPhone 5 Hyper-Anticipation: I Don't Think it Means What You Think it Means

It’s just a thing – a product to be purchased. It is not a revolution nor renaissance. It’s an iteration – an artifact of late 2011. Ideas always trump artifacts, but at the moment, we’re fresh out.

 October 5, 2011  Posted by at 12:16 AM AI, Apple, Artificial Intelligence, Cybernetics, Here First or Best Here, Human Augmentation, Internet, iPhone 5, Mobile, Prosthetics, Technology, We're Already Cyborgs Already
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