University of Pittsburgh researchers have demonstrated that a monkey can feed itself with a robotic arm simply by […]
Environmental sensors and handheld devices able to detect and identify viruses would provide early warning of infections in […]
The favourite toys from the last 100 years, from classics like the teddy bear to the best sellers […]
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The American section of the Saint-Etienne International Design Biennale –to be held on November 6 to 14– asked […]
Some British amateurs are keeping the morse code system alive. The Morse Code Preservation Society is attempting to […]
According to ZDNet, robots for the elderly were much discussed at the RoboNexus conference. The next generation of […]
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A snooping software is being offered to investment banks and other large companies who fear being hit by […]
Germany’s cabinet is due to discuss a law that would regulate limited genetic testing for employees in jobs […]
Alexander and Elena Libin from Georgetown University are looking at the possible health benefits of a robotic cat. […]
Evolution Robotics, the company providing the recognition software that helps Sony’s AIBO see and find its charging station, […]
iRobot Corp. plans to adapt the artificial intelligence technology used in its Roomba vacuums and portable PackBot military […]
In the “Massive Change” exhibition that opened at the Vancouver Art Gallery, Bruce Mau shows how design promises […]
I’m back from Metamorph, the architecture exhibition in Venice, where I tested Ron Arad’s ‘Lolita’ crystal (by Swarowsky) […]
French startup Dentalax has launched an RFID-based system to reduce errors and improve productivity in the development of […]
COEX in Seoul will host Korea’s first wearable PC fashion show on Wednesday. The “EveryWhere Technology, Every Wear(s) […]
The Korean government plans to install next year two kinds of network-based robots to greet customers of post […]
The Lokomat walking robot, developed by Swiss company Hocoma , wraps around semi-paralysed patients and stroke victims’ legs […]
Nintendo of America imposes a rather strict policy of “censorship” over video games. Japanese versions are purged from […]
I finally found a picture of the “many-legged robot that crawls through intestines” and makes pictures of what […]
A video of the Sky Cutter. Via Slashdot. Picture.
Saint-Louis based AI company Imagination Engines Inc claims to have developed a robot able to learn and dream. […]
Disney’s reservation agents are already using new technology to create a sales process “that satisfies guests while significantly […]
Thomas DeMarse, a University of Florida biomedical engineer, has grown a living “brain” with 25,000 living neurons, or […]
Next spring, Germany’s version of the Big Brother reality TV show will be aired from a small town […]
Military scientists are designing pilotless combat helicopters capable of carrying out air strikes with minimum input from their […]
San Francisco art critic and artist Jonathon Keats (who, last year, put his brain for sale) is developing […]
Tomorrow will be launched the bluepulse location-based service which enables people within a Sydney shopping centre get on […]
I Heard It On the Web media group in Hartford, has launched WIZ RADIO, a pre-recorded audio production […]
Art designer Mark Simonson is working on the revival of some of Phil Martin’s display typefaces from the […]
The Object-Based Media group at the MIT is developing a revolutionary system of computerised fabric patches called BYOB […]
Art*o*mat, created in 1997, are retired cigarette vending machines selling original works of art. Currently some 400 contributing […]
A video of ‘wearable computers’ on show at WPC expo in Tokyo. Some of them seem amazing: – […]
Transparency International, a non-governmental organisation fighting corruption worldwide, has just released its Corruption Perceptions Index that ranks countries […]
Maisonneuve has a fascinating story about ethnoburbs, the new suburbs for middle-class immigrants where strip malls are filled […]
The NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts funds cutting-edge technologies and concepts, some of them sound crazy but might […]
Brand Marketers had created the T-shirts with built-in television sets. Now, there is Chibi Vision, a U.S.-patented brand […]
Japanese company CITIZEN has developed a “wearable security tool” called CertifGate, which looks somewhat similar to the Active […]
Video game Urban Resolve, developed by a division of the U.S. Department of Defense, is a combat simulation […]
The Patriotic Art series by Your Art Here are four art billboards displayed on privately-owned buildings in Indianapolis. […]
Vagamundo is a mobile public art project, designed by Ricardo Miranda Zuñiga, for on the street interaction to […]