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Dec 7, 2015
China Aims to Retool Its Manufacturing Industry with Robots
Posted by Phillipe Bojorquez in categories: economics, robotics/AI
China needs advanced robotics to help balance its economic, social, and technological ambitions with continued growth.
Dec 7, 2015
Tiny dark matter stars would harbour particles that act as one
Posted by Andreas Matt in categories: cosmology, particle physics
A certain dark matter candidate could clump into stars where it would behave like the Borg race in Star Trek – and this might make it observable.
Dec 7, 2015
The PlayStation VR Games Sony Announced Today Look Amazing — By Drew Olanoff | TechCrunch
Posted by Odette Bohr Dienel in categories: business, virtual reality, wearables
“Sony unveiled some new information about the PlayStation VR and showed off some new titles. Unfortunately we’ve gotten no more information on dates aside from early 2016. However, the games we saw during today’s keynote look fantastic.”
Dec 7, 2015
Gene Editing Progress: Newly Engineered System Slashes Error Rate
Posted by Robert James Powles in category: biotech/medical
After recent good news regarding the accuracy of famed CRISPR-Cas9, a new form has been engineered that’s even more accurate than the original.
A string of positive developments
If you’ve been reading the news lately, you may know recent analysis of the gene editing system CRISPR-Cas9 has had a string of positive updates. We found out it’s surprisingly more accurate than we first believed, which bodes well as scientists across the world start thinking about the move into human models.
Dec 7, 2015
Life in the Robot Age: When We’re All Unemployed
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: futurism, robotics/AI
“You’ll never get a good job, son, if you’re smoking pot all the time!”
That’s a scolding you won’t hear in the future. Besides the fact that pot smokers can become president, the future will not require you to get a good job. The traditional motivation to keep your mind orderly and bourgeois will be gone, so let your mind fly its freak flag and wander the Technicolor pathways already cleared by St. John of Patmos, Salvador Dali, and Carl Sagan.
In the near future, we may all be unemployed. We are entering what is generally called the “second machine age.” And, optimistically speaking, it may become the best thing that ever happened to the human being.
Dec 7, 2015
Drivers Race In Virtual Reality Using Real Cars
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: transportation, virtual reality
We hear about virtual reality all the time, but what if your driving in *real life* actually controlled a virtual car? http://voc.tv/1P6L9zh
Bodycap develops innovative solutions, promoting new uses and is placed at the service of world players in the health and well-being.
Dec 6, 2015
60 Minutes On This Bicycle Can Power Your Home For 24 Hours
Posted by Matthew White in categories: energy, habitats
Would you exercise for an hour every day if the workout powered your home for twenty-four hours?
People often complain about the high costs of energy and the fact that they “never have time to workout.” This invention certainly solves both conundrums.
And, most importantly, this free power invention has the potential to lift the 1.3 billion people who presently live without electricity out of poverty.
