For a measley $15K elder Boomers can now repair another symptom of aging; “macular degeneration, a disease that…is a leading cause of vision loss for people over 60″. CBC News has more:
Two…
FDA approves telescopic eye implant
Read more "FDA approves telescopic eye implant"From the UK’s Science Museum’s History of Medicine:
Made from steel and brass, this unusual prosthetic arm articulates in a number of ways. The elbow joint can be moved by releasing a…
Late 19th/Early20thC Prosthetic Arm
Read more "Late 19th/Early20thC Prosthetic Arm"Read more "don kenn"He draws monsters on post-its, then posts them on his blog. Oh, and he’s incredible.
I love this new ecology of bio-mimiced robots.
From Wired UK:
The gecko’s toe hairs interact with the wall in a molecular attraction called “van der Waals force“. Using this force, a…
Stanford University engineers mimic geckos to create StickyBot
Read more "Stanford University engineers mimic geckos to create StickyBot"Some might say it’s a bit late, but MIT’s SENSEable have at least got a solution for the next big horrible oil spill. Seaswarm is a cutting-edge, 21C design; just the sort of thing we need…
Read more "Seaswarm"Further proof we’re living in the Future. From IEEE Spectrum:
Chauncey Graetzel and colleagues at ETH Zurich’s Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Systems started by building a miniature…
Cyborg fly pilots robotic vehicle through a simple obstacle course
Read more "Cyborg fly pilots robotic vehicle through a simple obstacle course"In happy news, it seems the returning vets from OS wars are owning their prostheses; far from hiding them, they are doing everything to ‘pimp them out’.
Which this Doonesbury strip captures:
Read more "Pimp My Gimp"I was very disappointed with the recent Futurama ep Lethal Inspection, in which Bender learnt he was created without the online backup unit that made all other robots immortal. To me, this…
Futurama and Orkut – mind-swapping and projected identities
Read more "Futurama and Orkut – mind-swapping and projected identities"Another great Augmented Reality concept video from Keiichi Matsuda, the maker of Domestic Robocop.
Note: requires old school blue/red 3D glasses for optimal viewing pleasure.
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The Committee to Nuke Elysium 