Technology

While it lacks the subtle charm of Alberto Tomba, this robot is just as much at ease flying down a slalom course. Designed by Bojan Nemec of the the Jozef Stefan Institute in Slovenia, the robot utilizes two computers to stay upright and pointed downhill. ...

Blog Post - Anonymous - Nov 1 2009 - 4:08am

Telemedicine Gets A Speed Boost From Modified Bluetooth

Researchers at the PSG College of Technology Peelamedu in Coimbatore, India have devised a dedicated, embedded system that uses the short-range Bluetooth wireless networking protocol to connect patient data to the network in order to make it available to h ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 2 2009 - 11:06pm

MIT Researchers Develop Affective Intelligent Driving Agent (AIDA)

MIT researchers and designers are developing the Affective Intelligent Driving Agent (AIDA)- a new in-car personal robot that aims to change the way we interact with our car. The project is a collaboration between the Personal Robots Group at the MIT Media ...

Article - Anonymous - Nov 5 2009 - 6:00pm

Iconic Lee Harvey Oswald Photo Authentic, Says Forensics Expert

A photograph of John F. Kennedy assassin Lee Harvey Oswald holding a rifle and a copy of The Militant communist paper in 1963 is authentic, says Dartmouth Computer Scientist Hany Farid, a pioneer in the field of digital forensics, who digitally analyzed th ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 5 2009 - 2:06pm

Experts Say They Can Keep Google's Grubby Hands Off Your Internet Searches

When you use popular search engines like Google or Yahoo to find something on the internet, the information you input is collected and built into a profile that helps those companies market products you may find interesting. Your favorite search engines ju ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 5 2009 - 6:38pm

Wearable Artificial Intelligence Could Help Astronauts Troll Mars for Signs of Life

Not since RoboCop has being a cyborg seemed so very cool. University of Chicago geoscientists are developing an artificial intelligence system that future Mars explorers could incorporate into their spacesuits to help them recognize signs of life on Mars& ...

Blog Post - Anonymous - Nov 7 2009 - 8:10am

Neuron-Like Computer Chips Could Portably Digitize Human Brain

Simulating the brain with traditional chips would require impractical megawatts of power. One scientist has an alternative. According to Kwabena Boahen, a computer scientist at Stanford University, a robot with a processor as smart as the human brain woul ...

Blog Post - Anonymous - Nov 8 2009 - 11:51pm

The Problem Of Machine Intelligence

There have been many discussions relating to transhumanism and augmenting intelligence as well as just intelligence itself. However, at the heart of many of these discussions the subject of Artificial Intalligence (AI) emerges. This raises the question o ...

Article - Gerhard Adam - Nov 10 2009 - 9:19pm

Invent, Build, Share, Destroy

The Wall Street Journal has a piece on Tinkering Makes a Comeback Amid Crisis. They are talking about what is referred to by varied terms such as Do-It-Yourself (DIY), the Make movement, and simply Crafting. The concept is 'build cool stuff, like mac ...

Article - Alex "Sandy" Antunes - Nov 13 2009 - 12:52pm

Soccer-Ball-Sized Submersible Robots Will Track Ocean Currents and Disasters at Sea

Soccer-Ball-Sized Submersible Robots Will Track Ocean Currents and Disasters at Sea The National Science Foundation has awarded almost $1 million to develop a swarm of underwater robotic explorers. ...

Blog Post - Anonymous - Nov 15 2009 - 6:36am