Technology
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Robotic Arms And The Future Of Human Augmentation
Nigel Auckland may have lost his arm a few years ago, but today he’s making history with an experimental robotic…
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Big Dog Goes For A Walk
Maybe it’s Big Dog’s housefly-like buzzing. Maybe it’s the way it walks, or the fact that I feel sorry for…
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Device That Garbles Your Brain Awarded Ig Nobel Prize
Here’s something that doesn’t bother me at all. It’s called the SpeechJammer, a device that, when pointed at someone, will…
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Hey, It’s A Brain-Controlled Quadrotor
From the labs at Zhejiang University in China comes this remarkable brain-controlled quadrotor, which can be maneuvered using only The Power…
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In The Future, You’ll Be Able To Charge Your Smartphone Just By Holding It
It’s called Power Felt: a fabric that can convert body heat into electricity. Created by Professor David Carroll and his…
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Soft Robots Use Camouflage, Are Watching You
The mad scientists over at Harvard University (in a collaboration with DARPA) aren’t content with simple robotic Meshworms and artificial jellyfish.…
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Disney Could Clone Your Face And Put It On A Robot (If They Wanted To)
Theme park animatronics aren’t new. I mean, I’ve been watching dirty animatronic pirate feet dangle over my head in Pirates…
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