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Q&A With Dr. Daniel Kraft, Director of FutureMed At Singularity University

by Aaron Saenz on January 3rd, 2012

Q&A With Dr. Daniel Kraft, Director of FutureMed At Singularity University

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Singularity

Help Accelerate Nanotechnology: Donate to the Foresight Institute With Matching Gifts Through Jan 15th

Written by: Aaron Saenz 4 days ago

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For twenty five years the Foresight Institute has been one of the leading proponents of nanotechnology, and 2011 was no [...]

Art

Q&A with Filmmaker Jason Silva as He Preaches the Philosophy of the Singularity

Written by: Aaron Saenz 4 days ago

Jason Silva feature

There are many futurists and techno-optimists in the world, but there is only one Jason Silva. The former host of [...]

Computer Interfaces

Want To Play Connect 4? The Nao Robot Is Ready to be Your Board Game Buddy

Written by: Aaron Saenz 5 days ago

Nao Connect 4

A team out of France has taught a robot how to play the classic board game Connect Four, but this [...]

Gadgets

Moverio – The Virtual 80-Inch, 3D Television You Wear On Your Face

Written by: Peter Murray 6 days ago

Still looking for that perfect Christmas gift? Moverio gives you 3D movies and Internet access for only $770!

Check Facebook posts, the Twitter feed, text someone, Google that actor in that movie you saw that time…watch a 3D [...]

AI

This Next Generation Vending Machine Has A Touchscreen And A 65-Inch HD Display (video)

Written by: Peter Murray 7 days ago

A 65-inch, transparent HD display shows animations that are a welcome break from the in-your-face video ads on other vending machines.

We all know that robots are getting smarter, but their food-dispensing cousins are getting pretty bright in their own right. [...]

Gadgets

Scanadu Raises $2M For Medical Tricorder (video)

Written by: Peter Murray 10 days ago

Scanadu's Medical Tricorder works with your smartphone to takes vitals and diagnose disease non-invasively and at home.

Star Trek fans rejoice, the Tricorder is here. Medical tech startup Scanadu has created a scanner that appears to have [...]

AI

Petman – Finally A Robot That Looks Like Terminator (video)

Written by: Peter Murray 13 days ago

With human-like movements, PETMAN will help the military assess the performance of their chemical protection suits.

Look out cute and cuddly Nao. Get out of the way ever-attentive Asimo, a new robot’s on the march and [...]

Art

Google Shoots Down One Company’s Plans To Turn Street View Into A First Person Shooting Game (video)

Written by: Peter Murray 14 days ago

Map? Check. Guidebook? Check. M4A1 assault rifle? Check.

I guess it was only a matter of time before someone equipped Google Street View navigators with a gun. Pool [...]

Debate Central

How advanced will robots be in 10 years?

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Hallerbakk

All we've gotta do is duct tape an iphone to a mannequins head and place it on petman! But seriously, in ten years we will see a melding [...]

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The Balls of Einstein

I think that in 10 years, Robots will be like these awesome little guys made out of cat fur. And they will run around fixing stuff for [...]

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Sunshine2047

I think there is a tipping point for many technologies, especially consumer electronics. The application of capacitive touch screen, tablet, (small) AMOLED screens, voice recognition all show [...]

Longevity And Health

CDC Issues New Guidelines for Tuberculosis As Drug-Resistant Forms Spread

Written by: David Hill 15 days ago

Mycobacterium tuberculosis = Enemy of the People

The 500,000 year-old pathogen responsible for tuberculosis (TB) has infected 1 out of every 3 people on the planet, according [...]

AI

The NAO Humanoid Robot Gets Slimmer And Smarter With NAO Next Gen (video)

Written by: Peter Murray 17 days ago

The new NAO Next Gen robot looks better, moves, sees and listens better. But it's still too damn expensive!

The next generation of our favorite two-foot, programmable, French robot, NAO, has just been released by Aldebaran Robotics. NAO Next [...]

Genetics

Latest Victory For Regenerative Medicine: Pituitary Grown From Embryonic Stem Cells

Written by: Peter Murray 18 days ago

Yoshiki Sasai's group induced embryonic stem cells to grow into the three-dimensionally complex pituitary.

Chalk up another part of the body that can be grown from stem cells – at least in mice. Scientists [...]

Gadgets

Drug Cartels Spare No Expense, Make Tunnels High Tech (video)

Written by: Peter Murray 19 days ago

US authorities discovered a tunnel with a rail system and elevator. The high-tech tunnels could move 25 tons of drugs in just a day or two.

In a twisted kind of way, this is really cool. Federal authorities discovered a drug-smuggling tunnel linking San Diego and [...]

Genetics

New Gene Therapy Stops The Bleeding In Hemophilia Patients (video)

Written by: Peter Murray 20 days ago

Dr. Amit Nathwani's team in London cured or improved the health of six hemophilia patients with a new type of gene therapy.

Finally, some good news about gene therapy. And just in time for the holidays. A recent study showed that giving [...]

Computer Interfaces

How Social Media Is Ruining Your Mind

Written by: Aaron Saenz 21 days ago

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The ongoing creation of Web 2.0 has transformed the average internet denizen into a strange hybrid of producer and consumer. [...]

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