https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEdr6iY6F-w The glove looks humdrum, like a garment you might pick up at a sporting-goods store. It’s made of soft black leather and fingerless, like a cyclist’s or weightlifter’s glove. The similarity is, however, deceiving. “I have a glove that can teach you how to play a piano melody,” Thad Starner declares when I call... Continue Reading →
Heeeeeere’s Jimmy: Intel’s 3-D Printed Robot Will Hit the Market Later This Year
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRZn7_lpD2U Intel plans to bring its fully customizable, 3-D printable robot kit to market by the end of the year, with a consumer version starting around $1,600. The hardware designs will be freely available online, allowing anyone with access to a 3-D printer to generate and assemble the basic parts. The kit, which will go... Continue Reading →
Citizen Scientists Hope to Revive Old NASA Probe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AtVPGgA7BQ A group of crowd-funded amateurs, students, and NASA retirees are on the cusp of resurrecting—and possibly taking control of—a disused NASA spacecraft that has been coasting around the solar system since the days of disco. On 21 May, NASA said it would allow the group to contact the International Sun-Earth Explorer-3 (ISEE-3), which studied... Continue Reading →
Google Builds a Self-driving Car from Scratch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqSDWoAhvLU Google has made a major breakthrough in its self-driving car project. The tech giant has now started building its own prototype vehicles from scratch, rather than retro-fitting existing commercial models such as the Toyota Prius. This has enabled some interesting design modifications such as, well, no steering wheel — for a start! Google is... Continue Reading →
3D Printed Fruit is Here, Thanks to Cambridge Company Dovetailed
http://vimeo.com/96510739 The 3D printing of food is certainly a futuristic concept, but it’s also something that, at this point, not too many people are all that excited about. Sure, it’s awesome for making customized candies like the ChefJet does, or for adding a bit of flair to a cake, but the idea of one day... Continue Reading →
Humanity Is Now Officially Ready For Suspended Animation
http://youtu.be/NjfmP8JqM-w Humanity Is Now Officially Ready For Suspended Animation Surgeons from the UPMC Presbyterian Hospital in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, are set to begin suspended animation trials by dramatically cooling down trauma victims in an effort to keep them alive during critical operations. Twenty years ago, Peter Safar and Ron Bellamy proposed that the rapid induction of... Continue Reading →
The Future of Work and Death
http://youtu.be/4FO-107eeq0 A documentary feature concerning the future of two ‘inevitable’ parts of the human condition; WORK and DEATH. The film focuses on how future technology could significantly change two major facets of human life; work and death. It explores how AI and technological singularity could be achievable in the next 30 years - how job... Continue Reading →
This Video Made Me Understand My Unity With The Universe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zORy9nDsF18#t=21 This 5 minute video shows a compilation of a great deal of human knowledge, and does so efficiently, artistically, and impressively. If you didn’t know: you will better understand. Anything you did know, will be refreshed and become more accessible to you. It helped me add to my understanding of our common unity with... Continue Reading →
More than 40% of domestic violence victims are male, report reveals
http://youtu.be/FM7ZIIuYLao About two in five of all victims of domestic violence are men, contradicting the widespread impression that it is almost always women who are left battered and bruised, a new report claims. Men assaulted by their partners are often ignored by police, see their attacker go free and have far fewer refuges to flee... Continue Reading →
Guaranteed Annual Income Could End U.S. PovertyMost Americans are familiar with Martin Luther King, Jr’s dream of ending racial segregation in the United States. However, Martin Luther King Jr. had another dream that is less well known. Before King was assassinated, he advocated a guaranteed annual income for every American, so that nobody would have to live in... Continue Reading →
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