February 2012
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WatchConsumer-Grade Robotic Exoskeletons To Hit Market This Year:
The company began its evolution in 2005 with the ExoHiker, an exoskeleton that allows able-bodied people to carry 90 kg (about 200 pounds) with minimal exertion. The company’s engineers at first thought it would take 5 kilowatts to power such an exoskeleton, which would have meant bulky batteries and motors. The breakthrough...
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WatchThe Brain Chemistry of Love
(via Your Brain in Love and Lust: Scientific American Video)
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Activating neurons with quantum dots →
unexpectedtech:
Being able to switch neurons on and off and monitor how they communicate with one another is crucial for understanding and, ultimately, treating a host of brain disorders, including Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s, and even psychiatric disorders such as severe depression.
Doctors and researchers today commonly use electrodes — on the scalp or implanted within the brain — to...
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WatchThe Miraculous NASA Breakthrough That Could Save Millions of Lives
The NASA Biocapsule—made of carbon nanotubes—will be able to “diagnose” and instantly treat an astronaut without him or her even knowing there’s something amiss. It would be like having your own personal Dr. McCoy—implanted under your skin. It represents one of the most significant breakthroughs in the history of medicine, and...
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When Will The Post-PC Era Arrive? It Just Did. →
There has been much debate about what the post-PC era is, when it will arrive, or whether it’s already here. But key pieces of new data, emerging last week, are making the case that we crossed the imaginary line from the “PC” era to the “post-PC” era at the end of 2011.
According to analysts at Canalys, two major computing milestones were achieved at the end of this year: smartphone shipments...
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Nanowelding With Light – Amazing Possibilities →
A team of engineers at Stanford has demonstrated a promising new nanowire welding technique that harnesses plasmonics to fuse the wires with a simple blast of light.
At the heart of the technique is the physics of plasmonics, the interaction of light and metal in which the light flows across the surface of the metal in waves, like water on the beach.
“When two nanowires lay crisscrossed, we...
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HUD Google Glasses are real and they are coming... →
Another huge milestone for Wearable Technology today
They are in late prototype stages of wearable glasses that look similar to thick-rimmed glasses that “normal people” wear. However, these provide a display with a heads up computer interface. There are a few buttons on the arms of the glasses, but otherwise, they could be mistaken for normal glasses. Additionally, we are not sure of the...
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“If history is any indication, we should assume that any technology that is going...”
– Bill Buxton, Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research, author Sketching User Experiences
From: Reshaping the Way We Think about RFID | ThingMagic’s RFID Blog - Radio Frequency Identification Company and Industry News
(via smarterplanet)
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Civilian drones to fill the skies after law... →
THE hobbyist was testing the camera on board his small uncrewed aerial vehicle (UAV), when he spotted it: a creek in Dallas, Texas, running red with blood.
He’d captured a picture of a stream of animal blood flowing north away from the Columbia Packing Company’s meat-processing facility. Acting on the visual evidence, investigators monitored the plant before raiding it last month. The company...
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Virtual Reality Contact Lenses One Step Closer to... →
The newest innovation comes from a joint venture between DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) and a technology company called Innovega. Innovega describes the new technology and its potential applications thusly:
Innovega designers and partners considered the future of personal media, social networking, and mobile computing, and converged upon an aggressive design-point that meets...
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Scientists turn skin cells into neural precursors,... →
singularitarian:
Mouse skin cells can be converted directly into cells that become the three main parts of the nervous system, according to researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine. The finding is an extension of a previous study by the same group showing that mouse and human skin cells can be directly converted into functional neurons.
The multiple successes of the direct...
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Brain-Like Computer Circuit To Be Available Within... →
A 37 year old theory is coming to reality for developers at Hewlett-Packard. A memory circuit capable of remembering past patterns of data and how they were collected is on the horizon. It will feature low energy usage and fast activation time. Stanley Williams, senior fellow at HP explains about the Memristor: “Because it [uses] less voltage and less time, of course, it uses much less power,”...
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