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Hybrid self-charging power cell by-passes batteries
Systems that convert kinetic energy into electric energy have made great strides in recent times, from mobile phone charging bicycle dynamos to tiles that turn footsteps into electrical energy....
View ArticleSwimming robot crosses Pacific Ocean
An autonomous swimming robot has successfully crossed the Pacific Ocean from San Francisco to Australia, its manufacturer says. Liquid Robotics in Sunnyvale, Calif., said its PacX Wave Glider made the...
View ArticleYour next boss could be a computer
Software that delegates tricky problems to human workers is changing the nature of crowdsourcing. "I'D RATHER have a computer as my boss than a jerk," says Daniel Barowy. To that end he has created...
View ArticleSpace bigwigs offer billion-dollar private moon trips
Robots aren't the only ones heading to the moon. The first private company offering regular trips to the lunar surface plans to start flights in 2020, shuttling people two at a time on exploratory...
View ArticleMan creates a beak-controlled, robotic scooter for his pet bird
We love our pets, and most of the time, they love us back. But what happens when your pet parrot gets bored and begins to drone on for hours with mindless, attention-seeking squawks? Why, you build the...
View ArticleDances With Robot Arms, ROS Turns Five, LittleDog Says Hello
It's December. December means holidays, December means vacation, December means that you should call in sick today, sink into your couch, make yourself a mug of hot cocoa, and watch robot videos until...
View ArticleText messages direct to your contact lens
New technology that will allow information, such as text messages from a mobile phone, to be projected onto a contact lens worn in the human eye has been developed by Belgian researchers. Ghent...
View ArticleAirHarp, The Instrument You Play Without Touching Anything
It looks like magic, but it's just technology. For a casual weekend hack, developer Adam Somers used a Leap Motion USB motion sensor device to turn his computer into a musical instrument. By adjusting...
View ArticleA 3D printer that manufactures new cancer drugs with drag-and-drop DNA
Researchers from Parabon NanoLabs have developed a new drug for combating a lethal brain cancer called glioblastoma multiforme. But what makes this particular drug unique is that it was printed —...
View ArticleScience Can Now Turn Human Urine Into Brain Cells
Chinese researchers have developed a new technique for isolating kidney cells from urine and turning them into neural progenitors. Not as gross as it sounds! Neural progenitors derived from human urine...
View ArticleSubstitutional Reality System Makes Reality and Fiction Indistinguishable
The Riken Brain Science Institute is developing a substitutional reality (SR) system that makes reality and fiction indistinguishable. The subject wears a head-mounted display (HMD), inside of which he...
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Kenshiro Robot Gets New Muscles and Bones
We’ve seen bio-inspired hummingbird robots, turtle robots, squirrel robots and more… enough to start an extremely profitable robot zoo. But very few researchers have been able to mimic the human body...
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Peter Diamandis and Theodore Berger to take part in the GF2045 congress in...
In December, the founder of the “Initiative 2045” movement Dmitry Itskov will hold a series of meetings in the USA with scientists, public figures and representatives of different religions as part of...
View ArticleDARPA foam fights internal bleeding
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is developing a foam that can be injected into the body cavities of battlefield wounded to protect them from internal abdominal bleeding. The...
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DARPA makes drones more menacing - by attaching six foot claw
US researchers have managed to make unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) even more menacing, arming one with the twin capabilities of attachable claws and depth-perception. Researchers on a project fundedby...
View ArticleNeil deGrasse Tyson On Making Humans Immune To The Deadly Forces Of Space
Neil deGrasse Tyson is disappointed that robots are being sent into space instead of humans, and he is wondering if we can make ourselves immune to the deadly forces of space. Filmmaker and futurist...
View ArticleSuperhumans, supercities and supercomputers: US intelligence's vision of 2030
Things are about to get a little weird. This according to the National Intelligence Council, at least, a US-based coalition of spy agencies that has just released its predictions for what’s in store...
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Fabric with micro solar cells generates electricity
Looking for new ways to keep warm, or just dazzle others with clothes that literally light up? Then textile jointly developed by Industrial Technology Center of Fukui Prefecture and Kyoto-based solar...
View ArticleScanadu Scout Hands-on: A Tricorder in Every Pocket
Look out, Dr. McCoy! By the end of next year, consumers will be able to pick up the Scanadu SCOUT, a small $150 palm-sized device, which will scan your vitals in less than a minute, and give you a...
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Google Grant to Help WWF Monitor Endangered Species with Drones
While we're fairly certain that Google's new grant to the World Wildlife Fund to buy drones to keep track of endangered animals doesn't include Reaper drones and Hellfire missiles, we can't be...
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