This is what happens when you die, according to a bunch of different people...
What happens to us when we die? It’s a question that has exercised humanity’s finest minds since those humans have been around to have them – and has been recently the subject of a number of...
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'Cingular' brain strategy for attack and defense
Attack value was associated with the posterior cingulate cortex (PCC), defense value with the rostral anterior cingulate cortex (rACC), and the difference in value with the dorsolateral prefrontal...
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Layered fabric 3D printer creates squeezable interactive objects
A laser in the fabric printer burns shapes into material suspended by a vacuum (Photo: Disney Research) We're used to 3D-printed objects being hard and unyielding, or perhaps a little rubbery. Thanks...
View ArticleWhat if one country achieves the singularity first?
Zoltan Istvan is a futurist, author of The Transhumanist Wager, and founder of and presidential candidate for the Transhumanist Party. He writes an occasional column for Motherboard in which he...
View ArticleDmitry Itskov: www.Immortal.me - Want to be immortal? Act!
Fellow Immortalists! Many of the daily letters that the 2045 Initiative and I receive ask the question: will only the very rich be able to afford an avatar in the future, or will they be relatively...
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Renderings & Details Unveiled for Extraordinary 3D Printed Home in New York
Back in August of 2014, 3DPrint.com broke a story on a project originating from New York City architect/contractor Adam Kushner, and the company which he is the president of, D-Shape Enterprises. That...
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Vertex hybrid drone combines hovering and fixed-wing flight
As consumer drones are becoming increasingly common, we seem to be seeing more of a certain "value-added" feature – quadcopters that are able to hover as needed, but which can also transition to faster...
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Replace Your Eyeballs With Synthetic Ones
Our eyes are such elegant, complex, specialized organs that their existence seems almost hard to believe--Darwin himself called their evolution “absurd.” But that doesn’t mean they’re perfect; eyes...
View ArticleTiny robots climb walls carrying more than 100 times their weight
Mighty things come in small packages. The little robots in this video can haul things that weigh over 100 times more than themselves. The super-strong bots – built by mechanical engineers at Stanford...
View ArticleOculus Rift and Robotic Heads: A Match Made In Geek Heaven
Like its namesake, DORA was born to explore. Specifically, the robot—which was built by a team of students at the University of Pennsylvania—is designed to be a kind of exploration surrogate, able to...
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Hands Omni haptic glove lets gamers feel virtual objects
While virtual reality has progressed leaps and bounds in the past few years, with motion-based inputs and a plethora of promising VR headsets close on the horizon, our ability to actually feel what we...
View ArticleTiny gecko-inspired robot pulls 100 times its weight
As our computers get ever smaller, we still imagine robots being the same size as us. We're egotistical like that. We don't quickly learn that small things can pack a devastating sort of power. Think...
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Industrial Revolution III 3D printer places electronics within the objects it...
The development of 3D printer technology has been rapidly accelerating, boosted in a large part to the open source community and world-wide sharing of information. There are now literally dozens of...
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NASA Scientists Release Colorful Images of Mercury
Stunning new images of Mercury have been produced by combining data from the Mercury Atmosphere and Surface Composition Spectrometer (MASCS) instrument and the Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS) aboard...
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New tool can switch behavior -- such as voracious eating -- 'on' and 'off'
Neuroscientists have perfected a chemical-genetic remote control for brain circuitry and behavior. This evolving technology can now sequentially switch the same neurons - and the behaviors they...
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Fetch Robotics tag teams to speed up warehouse work
As internet commerce matures, consumers are expecting more immediate delivery of goods, but a fleet of drones won't do any good unless the packing warehouses can keep up. The latest effort to help...
View ArticleBrain scan reveals out-of-body illusion
The feeling of being inside one's own body is not as self-evident as one might think. In a new study from Sweden's Karolinska Institutet, neuroscientists created an out-of-body illusion in participants...
View ArticleAmazon boss Jeff Bezos just launched a secret rocket to space
In a move that will garner begrudging respect from Bond villains around the world, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos secretly launched an uncrewed rocket to space yesterday from his private launch facility in...
View Article#7 Avatar Technology Digest / HoloLens, artificial heart, Hands Omni glove,...
Welcome to Avatar Technology Digest #7. As always we bring you the latest news on Technology, Medical Cybernetics and Artificial Intelligence from the most trusted sources. And here are the top stories...
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Nasa might have successfully tested a warp drive at speeds of light
Nasa may have successfully tested a form of space flight that could carry people to the moon in a few short hours — and eventually let us fly at speeds approaching that of light. The agency has built...
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