In a modern technological society such as ours we as people rely heavily on the digital technology known as computers. Many decisions in life are often allowed to be made by computers based on the data gathered by the computer. These decisions can range from business transaction to medical surgery in an operation room. Having this much of an impact on human lives it is no wonder it's b...
Remember the Wireless Display tech that leaked last week? Well, as of tonight’s keynote it’s official -- and it’s officially called WiDi. This bad boy connect your laptop to your HDTV via WiFi, streaming video and audio with to your heart’s content. Apparently, you need a Core i3 or i5 laptop, and the adapter box will set you back $100. The first WiDi devices will go on sale at Best Buy st...
George Orwell's 1984 is at the front door with our ability to place a microchip in a syringe then injected this chip just beneath the skin at which point the subject or subjects can be tracked globally. Today's technology goes beyond mere tracking. We now have the capacity to have this chip identify us eventually worldwide. We will be able to buy and sell simply by being in close proximity to...
The Olds -- they’re never happy, are they? Just look at this study conducted by the feared and respected Zogby International. According to a poll, those aged 35-54 are most disappointed by how far technology has come by 2010, having grown up with the concept of that Jetsons robot that automatically brushes your teeth and the promise of Sleeper’s Orgasmatron. Still, 21 percent of Emperor Zogbyâ...
We really can’t get enough of these humanoid robots. Researchers collaborating from the Nippon Institute of Technology, Harada Vehicle Design, ZMP and ZNUG Design have just taken the wraps off another addition to the crew. The newest version of the e-NUVO walk bot stands about 4 feet tall, making it roughly the size of an elementary school aged child, and will be incorporated into classes to tea...
We’ve seen UAVs that hover in the past, but if you’re looking for something that eschews rotors for nearly silent ducted fans, you’ll need to get your hands on the cyberQuad by Cyber Technology. The fans don’t produce sparks (which is why this thing was recently tested with much success in an extended survey of an offshore drilling platform / oil rig damaged by fire), and its "perch and st...
Lucid came along last year and promised to let any motherboard chipset work with any combination of GPUs; to enable you to pair an ATI Radeon HD 5870 with an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 295 and get 100 percent the performance out of both -- assuming you have a suitably gluttonous power supply. We were naturally a bit skeptical and so when the company largely disappeared for a year we figured they’d pulle...
The University of Utah research team, whose work is explored in the July 1 online edition of Neurosurgical Focus, hope their microelectrocorticography, or microECoG, devices also eventually allow people who have lost the power of speech to speak again via computer. "The unique thing about this technology is that it provides lots of information out of the brain without having to ...