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Non-Contact 3D Med Display
2007-11-09 15:56:00 From medGadget: This new volumetric medical display from the Fraunhofer-Institut für Nachrichtentechnik, Heinrich-Hertz-Institut (HHI) in Berlin offers not only 3D visualization for radiologists and surgeons, but also has a built in function that allows the manipulation and rotation of the image without touch, hence allowing clinicians not to break the scrub during sterile procedures: ... More About: Contact , Display
Imaging neural progenitor cells in the living human brain
2007-11-09 15:54:00 From Physorg: For the first time, investigators have identified a way to detect neural progenitor cells (NPCs), which can develop into neurons and other nervous system cells, in the living human brain using a type of imaging called magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS). The finding, supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), may lead to improved ... More About: Living , Human , Brain , Imaging , Neural
Carnegie Mellon wins the robotic Urban Challenge
2007-11-05 06:13:00 We are now one step closer towards complete laziness! Yes! haha…really though, this is a pretty good advancement in technology, and actually something I’ve dreamed about since the novelty of driving wore off. Once automatic driving cars hit the market I won’t have to beg my wife to drive so I can play video games ... More About: Robotic , Urban , Challenge , Wins , Carnegie Mellon
Privacy groups seek ?do not track? Web list
2007-11-05 05:44:00 Aside from privacy groups *I* also want the FTC to create a “do not track” list. From Reuters: Thu Nov 1, 2007 9:37am EDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Nine privacy and consumer organizations asked the Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday to create a “do not track” list for Internet users who don’t want their online activities tracked, stored ... More About: Privacy , List , Track , Groups , Seek
Scientists Discover New Way To Make Water
2007-11-03 21:05:00 I just want to know when I’ll be able to visit a Lunar or Martian Water Park! The journey down a water slide in low gravity might take a while but still sounds like fun! From ScienceDaily: In a familiar high-school chemistry demonstration, an instructor first uses electricity to split liquid water into its constituent gases, hydrogen ... More About: Make , Scientists , Discover
MIT?s ?robocar? named a finalist in DARPA Urban Challenge
2007-11-03 20:35:00 Maybe laziness is what drives accelerating technological change. So, driving isn’t lazy enough we have to program the cars to drive themselves! MIT’s ‘robocar’ negotiated a course without a driver to advance to the finals of the DARPA Urban Challenge . Photo / Jason Dorfman, CSAIL From PhysOrg: Team MIT has made it to the finals of the ... More About: Halle
Super-Humanity
2007-11-03 10:30:00 I stayed up a little later last night so I could make some more progress on J. Storrs Halls’ Beyond AI. Still a little tired after waking up this morning I laid on the couch to take a nap. My mind wandered as my thoughts led me to an internal discourse about information and communication. ... More About: Super , Humanity
I am not a science writer. When I write, I aim to expand your imagination.
2007-10-30 19:15:00 I try my best to use words to convey the thoughts and feelings that swirl around inside of me but it’s difficult. Like everyone, I analyze, observe, and ponder, but the resulting synthesis is often a bit fuzzy. I don’t think in the concrete and so my opinions are often not concrete and solid but ... More About: Science , Write , Imagination , Writer
Terabyte Thumb Drives Made Possible by Nanotech Memory
2007-10-27 05:20:00 Check it out! A drive for you thumb! From Wired: Michael Kozicki, director of Arizona State’s Center for Applied Nanoionics, has developed a new type of computer memory that he claims is cheaper and more energy-efficient than current technology. Photo: Michael Kozicki By Alexis Madrigal 10.26.07 | 4:00 PM Researchers have developed a low-cost, low-power computer memory that could put terabyte-sized ... More About: Memory , Made , Thumb , Nanotech , Byte
hmmm?looks like the ol? exponential arc continues on its merry way?
2007-10-27 04:24:00 From the Melbourne Daily Herald: Local whiz speeds up broadband by 200 times By Annalise Walliker October 24, 2007 02:00am A MELBOURNE PhD student has developed technology to make broadband internet up to 200 times faster without having to install expensive fibre optic cables. Harnessing the potential power of telephone lines and DSL broadband, the technology will deliver internet speeds ... More About: The O , Conti , Merry , Looks
Automated decision-making: The death of expertise
2007-10-27 04:09:00 Sep 13th 2007 From The Economist print edition: EVERY time a world-class chess player loses to a computer, humans die a little. In this book Ian Ayres, a professor of law and management at Yale University, explains how in many less high-profile endeavours, human intuition and flair are more easily beaten. The sheer quantity of data and ... More About: Death , Decision , Decision-Making , Decision making , Automated
839 trillion calculations per second. Beat that IBM!
2007-10-27 04:06:00 This is what I need to help me keep up on all the juicy science news that comes out… NEC says its SX-9 is the the world’s fastest vector supercomputer. Photo: AFP From The Sydney Morning Herald: October 26, 2007 - 10:58AM Japan’s NEC Corp has announced the launch of what it called the world’s most powerful supercomputer on the ... More About: Beat , Calculations
Human race will ?split into two different species?, I call ?Bullshit!?
2007-10-27 03:49:00 This is the kind of research article that makes us Singulatarians cringe…it focuses on what Kurzweil calles the ‘linear intuitive view’ of future events where everything evolves at an orderly pace. “While science and technology have the potential to create an ideal habitat for humanity over the next millennium, there is the possibility of ... More About: Human , Race , Bullshit , Call , Split
Scientists have a new way to reshape nature, but none can predict the cost
2007-10-22 15:43:00 This is one of those article where you really should read the entire thing. From Gaurdian.co.uk: Synthetic biologists say their technology could tackle climate change and feed the hungry, but its dangers are terrifying Madeleine Bunting Monday October 22, 2007 The Guardian If you’ve never heard of synbio, you will hear plenty in the next decade. Synthetic biology now ... More About: Nature , Cost , Scientists , Predict
New Scientist: ?Robotic rampage? unlikely reason for deaths
2007-10-22 15:37:00 Is this the absolute truth or a scientific magazine softening the affect of an event which may contribute to the opinion that robotic research should not charge ahead so quickly. On the other hand, ‘Robotic Rampage ’ was obviously used as a sensational headline by the original newspaper that broke the story. This is why I ... More About: Scientist , Deaths , Reason
More Killer Robot News?Pun Intended.
2007-10-22 14:58:00 Inside the Robo -Cannon Rampage (Updated) A South African robotic cannon went out of control, killing nine, “immediately after technicians had finished repairing the weapon,” the Mail & Guardian reports. A burst of explosive shells, lasting one-eighth of a second, from the barrel of the anti-aircraft gun killed nine soldiers and injured 15 others… Explaining the circumstances around the ... More About: News , Robot , Killer
Robot Cannon Goes Berserk, Kills 9
2007-10-19 16:38:00 Somehow “I told you so.” just doesn’t quite cut it… From WIRED’s Danger Room: By Noah Shachtman October 18, 2007 | 10:59:00 AM The tragedy in South Africa that killed nine soldiers isn’t the first time a robotic weapon has spun out of control. Here’s a video I obtained a few years back, showing a XM-151 Remote Weapons ... More About: Robot , Berserk , Cannon , Robo , Goes
The Ethics of Erasing a Bad Memory
2007-10-19 16:33:00 I want to do this! Maybe not! I can’t remember! From TIME: By SCOTT HAIG Monday, Oct. 15, 2007 She was worried about the lump and worried about the children who were worrying about her. She was, however, most worried about the anesthesia. “What if I don’t wake up?” just wasn’t a question I could answer sufficiently for her. ... More About: Memory , Ethics
Invisible solar nano-cells promise clean energy
2007-10-19 16:31:00 I hope all of this energy research really turns into something. I look forward to the day when we have bountiless clean energy! From ZDnet: Marlowe Hood, AAP 18 October 2007 08:10 AM Scientists have developed solar cells 200 hundred times thinner than a human hair that could power the nanoscale gadgetry of tomorrow. From consumer devices to bioterrorism monitors ... More About: Energy , Solar , Clean , Nano , Promise
Weaving Batteries into Clothes
2007-10-18 15:50:00 Nice threads! From MIT Technology Review: A new machine that makes nanostructured fibers could turn soldiers’ uniforms into power supplies. Wearable power: Researchers have developed technology that combines multiple materials into intricately structured fibers, such as those shown here (right). The researchers hope to make fibers that can store energy or convert sunlight into power, for ... More About: Clothes , Batteries , Erie , Cloth
?Bionic? Nerve To Bring Damaged Limbs And Organs Back To Life
2007-10-18 15:48:00 More Frankenstein stuff here for you: From Science Daily: Source: University of Manchester Date: October 18, 2007 University of Manchester researchers have transformed fat tissue stem cells into nerve cells - and now plan to develop an artificial nerve that will bring damaged limbs and organs back to life. In a study published in October’s Experimental Neurology, Dr Paul Kingham ... More About: Life , Back , Limbs , Bionic , Organs
Virus-Built Electronics
2007-10-18 15:42:00 From MIT Technology Review: Assembling nanomaterials with the help of innocuous viruses could lead to threadlike ¬batteries and photovoltaics that can be woven into clothing. By Kevin Bullis Tiny building blocks: A small vial contains a billion viruses, each with a slightly different genetic modification. These can be screened to determine which of them will bind to ... More About: Virus , Electronics
Future planetary landers may fly like cockroaches
2007-10-18 15:38:00 I had no idea cockroaches can fly…those little devils! From Newscientist: “That’s one small flight for a cockroach, one giant leap for bugkind.” While that probably won’t be the message beamed back to Earth from a future planetary lander after it touches down successfully on Mars, cockroaches may well have played a part in the landing ? especially ... More About: Future
Herpes Virus Can Be Used As Nanomachines For Cancer Treatment
2007-10-18 15:34:00 In the future, a doctor will discuss with a patient that he would like to give them herpes. A few doctors will be slapped at first but then gradually the public will become informed about this development: From Science Daily: Source: Louisiana State University Date: October 17, 2007 In fact, excluding cancers of the skin, breast cancer ... More About: Virus , Cancer , Treatment , Cancer treatment , Herpes
Astrophysicist Replaces Supercomputer with Eight PlayStation 3s
2007-10-18 15:24:00 These scientists aren’t playing around: From Wired: By Bryan Gardiner 10.17.07 | 12:00 AM Suffering from its exorbitant price point and a dearth of titles, Sony’s PlayStation 3 isn’t exactly the most popular gaming platform on the block. But while the console flounders in the commercial space, the PS3 may be finding a new calling in the realm ... More About: Playstation , Supercomputer
Inkjets print living cells in 3-D
2007-10-16 15:38:00 I can see it…one of these days you’ll be able to design a pet in an application called ‘Petshop’ and then print off a cat someday! And with any pattern fur you want! I’ll take a checkered one! From MSNBC’s LiveScience: Method could someday create implantable human organs, scientist says By Dave Mosher Staff writer Updated: 2:41 p.m. CT Oct ... More About: Living , Print
Are we missing a dimension of time?
2007-10-16 15:19:00 From the Telegraph.co.uk: Could “hypertime” help develop a theory of everything? Roger Highfield reports A scientist has put forward the bizarre suggestion that there are two dimensions of time, not the one that we are all familiar with, and even proposed a way to test his heretical idea next year. Time is no longer a simple line ... More About: Missing , Dimension , Dime , Mens
Study seeks scientific explanation for roots of homosexuality
2007-10-16 15:14:00 As far as I’m concerned EVERYONE is welcome here at Blogging the Singularity…blacks, whites, men, women, jews, muslims, christians, athiests, bigots, racists, peace activists, communists, capitalists, smart people, dumb people, augmented humans, robots, AND homosexual homosapiens! A question just popped into my head…will there be gay robots in the future? From MSNBC: Updated: 2:59 p.m. CT Oct ... More About: Study , Homosexuality , Roots , Ality
How to Turn On a Gene
2007-10-15 18:04:00 From WIRED: by Kristen Philipkoski 02.06.02 | 2:00 AM A California biotech company has a technology that seems like a killer app for gene therapy: It can turn any gene on or off. In some ways it really is a killer app. The technology allows a scientist to genetically engineer a protein with what is called a zinc finger. ... More About: Gene , Turn
Washington abuzz with talk of dragonfly spies
More articles from this author:2007-10-15 18:00:00 Freedom, Democracy, and Privacy are dying a slow, painful death… From The Sydney Morning Herald: Take-off ? a mechanical fly from the Harvard Microrobotics Lab. Photo: Robert Wood October 12, 2007 US agencies are staying tight-lipped about robobug research, writes Rick Weiss. VANESSA ALARCON saw them at an antiwar rally in Lafayette Square in Washing ton last month. “I heard someone say: ‘Oh ... More About: Talk , Spies , Dragonfly 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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