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01.27.12 -

Google announces privacy changes across products; users can't opt out - The Washington Post
With Prevalence of Nanomaterials Rising, Panel Urges Review of Risks - NY Times
Commercial Version of the MIT Media Lab CityCar Unveiled - MIT Media Lab
Toyota unveils health-care robots - CBC News
Seeing through walls - MIT's Lincoln Laboratory video on youTube
Tracking heart rate in real time on a smartphone - youTube video
CO2 levels soared in 2010 - CBC News

01.26.12 -

One of the researchers, Dr James Kirkland, said: "I've never seen anything quite like it." - Signs of ageing halted in the lab - BBC News

01.26.12 -

"A year ago, he says, it cost about $30,000 to sequence a person's entire DNA. Today, that number's down to $4,000. Sundquist believes researchers eventually will sequence everyone on earth and make that data part of each person's medical record." - from Google strikes deal to preserve DNA data online - PhysOrg

01.25.12 -

Young Adults Responded Well to Swine Flu - NSF
Technology May Soon Turn Thoughts Into Action - NSF
Tiny magnetically-levitated robots could change the game for robotics - Gizmag

01.21.12 -

Clues in DNA reveal how long you'll live - and they can be read when you're a baby - MailOnline
Implanted biofuel cell converts bug's chemistry into electricity: Scientists take step toward cyborgs - PhysOrg
Computer could act as doctor's assistant - CBC News
NIH scientists identify novel approach to view inner workings of viruses - NIH
Synthetic Windpipe Is Used to Replace Cancerous One - The New York Times
Google Science Fair - Google

01.20.12 -

The vibration-sensing, head-tracking Fit Freeway "exergaming" app - Gizmag
Surgical robots - The Economist
Cold Fusion: NASA Says Nothing Useful - Forbes

01.19.12 -

Yesterday, Wikipedia withheld the free flow of information, to protest a bill that might withhold the free flow of information (SOPA - Stop Online Piracy Act).

While confused by Wikipedia's actions, it was a wake up call for me. I know now, that I can not count on access to the 'free flow' information on the internet. Not so long as public information can be withheld as a political (or other) weapon. Maybe the 'Cloud' is not such a great idea after all.

I found Google's actions, a blackout of their logo, to be a proper protest that didn't make thousands of students dig out their grandparent's old encyclopedia book set.

SOPA is a bad bill. Wikipedia's one-day blackout was a glimpse of the near future. When the flow of information will be even more vital, and may be used as a tool to control the public. -ffa

01.18.12 -

New Report Outlines Trends in U.S. Global Competitiveness in Science and Technology - NSF
When Breakthroughs Begin at Home - NY Times
Preview of Tomorrow's Wearable Computers - Technology Review
Augmented-reality windshields and the future of driving - CNN
Join the hunt for planets - PlanetHunters.org
Take a tour of the virtual future - Stanford
Twenty top predictions for life 100 years from now - BBC

01.12.12 -

ATP-detecting nanosensors could help reduce laboratory animal testing - Gizmag
$10 million Qualcomm Tricorder X PRIZE - Build the first Star Trek tricorder and win

01.11.12 -

New App Helps NASA Keep Track of Meteoroids - NASA
Visualizing video at the speed of light — one trillion frames per second - MIT YouTube video
Forget 3D, here comes the QD TV - Telegraph

01.10.12 -

I'm a french expert in AI (I wrote "expert system" article in Wikipedia). In your multiple definitions (Quantum, DNA, optical, ...) it lacks the most certain and the most futurist computer : the invisible computer. With AI, computer comunicates with user by voice (like Hal in 2001: A Space Odyssey) or by mental waves. By voice, you need only one microphone and one speaker per room of the house. The computer is hidden in a closet. I inform you that today a computer can talk at length with its users, write programs for them (better and faster than developers), learn users knowledge, control it, teach it and even tell you if their ideas are good!. Thanks to automated reasoning.

01.10.12 -

QuizFactor - new educational quiz website

01.09.12 -

Photoacoustic Device Finds Cancer Cells Before They Become Tumors - Vimeo video
Duolingo - Learn a language for free, and simultaneously translate the Web

01.05.12 -

Could Robots, Humans Live Side-by-Side? - Yahoo News video
Are You Being Tracked? 8 Ways Your Privacy Is Being Eroded Online and Off - AlterNet
Avoiding Facial Recognition of the Future - ITProPortal
Good-bye, Wheelchair, Hello Exoskeleton - IEEE Spectrum
Cubelets! - Youtube video of connectable robots

01.04.12 -

Fountain of youth? - KurzweilAi.net
Jurassic Park scientist aims to hatch a dinosaur using DNA from birds - Daily Mail

01.03.12 -

Your Connected Vehicle Is Arriving - Technology Review
Private Spaceflight: Up, Up, and Away - IEEE Spectrum

01.01.12 -

[The conscious shift of an enlightened society, or > WEB 2.0] I'll keep this brief; society's attention span is quite small. Humanity is the most advanced society that we are aware of, but we are on the fringe of the next revolution- another stage in our evolution as a species. I can feel it, and I'm sure you can too. We have got to a point where the collective power of our brains is pushing evolution forward at a faster rate than ever before- not physically, but in our ability to become self-aware and harness our potential. This is partly caused by our exponential growth in numbers and the incredible tools available to us. The next stage in our evolution is the complete interconnection of our collective consciousness, and the exciting thing is that the infrastructure to make this happen is already in place - the Internet. The Internet seems to be regarded by society as "just some thing". Kinda like TV- it's there to waste some time or for a bit of fun; watch a video of a cat, update your status, shoot some zombies etc. We need to realise the full potential of the Internet. It is well known that it is changing the very way that we communicate, but we are not aware of the full depth of it. Since our inception as a species, the primary means of communication has been through speech. The Internet makes it possible to remove the physical element of communication and have a direct link from your brain/conscience/soul to the rest of society. There are people who you may think act completely different on the Internet; not quite like themselves. The truth is, the Internet is where they are most likely to be completely true to themselves. The Internet is a necessity for the continuing development of the human race. It should not be regarded as "just some thing", rather accepted as a tool vital to our race. The availability of the Internet is extremely quickly becoming universal. There are not many places in the developed world that you cannot check your email, and this will only get more advanced. With the development of the infrastructure of the Internet, every aware human brain in the world will be connected. The power of the human brain is amazing, especially if we learn to use it to its full potential. Humans working together have already achieved some incredible things, so imagine what could be achieved with every human mind on the planet having a direct link with every other human mind on the planet. This future of society is vey exciting, and I hope I am around to see it happen. It is simply a case of enough people being aware. This is a big step toward a major change in our species. Our complete interconnection would mean that we are no longer several billion organisms existing separately, but that the entire human race is one organism made of several billion parts. This will create an equilibrium, a full circle, the yang to the original yin. We started with one (figuratively)- the first homo sapiens, Adam, patient zero, whatever you want to call it- and we will once again be one. The question is, what comes after that? Jimmy

12.29.11 -

Textiles Nanotechnology Laboratory - Cornell University

12.27.11 -

well, the future of technology is scary. your prediction might not be scary enough :D I read similar article about future technology on techtechy.com - Mirka

12.27.11 -

Alzheimer's drug candidate may be first to prevent disease progression - Salk Institute
YouTube for schools - High quality educational videos on YouTube in a controlled environment
Researchers create "mighty mouse" with gene tweak that doubles muscle strength - Gizmag
2012 predictions - KurzweilAi.net

12.26.11 -

Invisibility - Collection of articles on invisibility technologies from Gizmag
New diode promises to uncork optical computing bottleneck - Gizmag
Minihelicopter Flies Autonomously - Siemens
The Mystery Behind Anesthesia - Technology Review
The Next 5 in 5 - IBM
Extreme Futurist Fest - "If the original Burning Man was to meet the Singularity Summit, you would have Extreme Futurist Fest 2011"

12.23.11 -

A nanowire endoscope for imaging inside a single cell - KurzweilAi.net
Governments can record everything - Brookings (PDF)
Is a cure for the common cold on the way? - BBC News
Asterisk - Six legged robot video

 

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