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Toyota unveils helpful Human Support Robot
Toyota has unveiled a new assistant robot designed to help the disabled live more independently. Called the Human Support Robot (HSR), it represents the latest initiative in Toyota's Partner Robot...
View ArticleDARPA's 'Transient Electronics' Will Disappear Anywhere
Imagine electronic medical devices, implanted to heal wounds and then dissipating inside the human body. Environmental sensors dispersed over an oil spill, collecting data before dissolving into the...
View ArticleApple patent roundup: Siri and flexible displays
Apple has been on a patent tear as of late, and it doesn't appear the company will slow down anytime soon. The iPhone maker has filed for a patent related to "electronic devices with flexible...
View ArticlePrinted lasers can make your wallpaper 'smart'
A University of Cambridge team has used liquid crystals in place of ink to print tiny dots on a surface covered with a special coating. Once the coating dries, the dots become lasers, the researchers...
View ArticleSpaceX's 'Grasshopper' vertical takeoff / vertical landing rocket takes its...
This test-firing may not match the flame of earlier demonstrations, but SpaceX CEO Elon Musk tweeted out a brief eight-second video of another setup it's testing, the "Grasshopper" reusable vertical...
View ArticleAir Force Video Compares Facebook, iPhone to Atom Bombs
The world of tomorrow is going to be a dark and sinister place, according to a group of Air Force futurists. One reason why it’ll be so scary: Facebook. In an foreboding web video entitled “Welcome to...
View ArticleYour move, creep: Researchers building RoboCop policeman
You've double-parked your car to pick something up when a robot rolls up and threatens to give you a ticket. You might laugh, but the thing's talking with a human voice. Researchers at Florida...
View ArticleGraphene Replaces Traditional Silicon Substrates in Future Devices
Researchers at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) have patented and are commercializing a method by which gallium arsenide (GaAs) nanowires are grown on graphene. The method,...
View ArticleHow attention helps you remember
A new study from MIT neuroscientists sheds light on a neural circuit that makes us likelier to remember what we’re seeing when our brains are in a more attentive state. The team of neuroscientists...
View ArticleDid a Computer Bug Help Deep Blue Beat Kasparov?
In May 1997, an IBM supercomputer known as Deep Blue beat then chess world champion Garry Kasparov, who had once bragged he would never lose to a machine. Kasparov and other chess masters blamed the...
View ArticleProtein sorting within cells
US scientists have used magnetic nanoparticles with specific ligands to latch on to and visualise specific proteins in living cells. The approach could be used to identify new, selective ligands that...
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Reliable 3-D memories from silicon oxide and graphene: Visionary transparent...
The technique based on the switching properties of silicon oxide, a breakthrough discovery by Rice in 2008, was reported today in the online journal Nature Communications. The Rice team led by chemist...
View ArticleIbis Hotel Installs Robots To Paint Sleeping Guests
Robots are invading every part of human life -- even the bedroom. But not in the way you think, at least not at the Ibis Hotels chain, which is installing robotic artists in various rooms at its...
View ArticleAkimbo Kinect hack offers precise control with minimal effort
We've seen Microsoft's Kinect used in countless ways, but 3Gear Systems means to better these predecessors with the beta release of its SDK, which turns all the subtleties of hand movement into...
View ArticleCEATEC Japan 2012 – Day 1 Round-up
[CEATEC 2012] We are covering CEATEC, Japan’s largest consumer electronics show, until October 6, and Hubert Nguyen, Ubergizmo’s co-founder, is a judge for the Innovation Awards there. So far, we have...
View ArticleVadim Kazyutinsky, Ph.D. has Passed Away
On October 3, 2012 after a long and serious illness, Vadim Kazyutinsky, Ph.D., professor, senior researcher at the Institute of Philosophy at the Russian Academy of Sciences and a member of the Academy...
View ArticleIf you can't nod off then your brain could be to blame! Scientists discover...
It is certainly one of the more mysterious medical treatments. But one question has always remained: why can some people be hypnotised and others can’t? The answer, it seems, may well lie with our...
View ArticleNTT DoCoMo hands-free videophone prototype replaces that off-center webcam...
In a sort of reverse-Project Glass, one of DoCoMo's latest prototypes flips its cameras back at the wearer. This hands-free videophone headset ties together seven separate cameras, each recording 720p...
View ArticleFully autonomous robotic drones are coming, Skynet after that?
Chengyu Cao and his research team at the University of Connecticut are working on the kinds of advancements that science fiction writers have dreamed of for years: fully autonomous machines capable of...
View ArticleWORLD’S MOST WIRED Toymaker
WINDSOR COUNTY, Vermont — To get to Jaimie Mantzel’s home you’ll need your hiking shoes. He lives deep in the New England wilderness, beyond a grassy field, past a concrete tunnel, a pond and deep...
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