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Dec 072012
Researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine in November surgically implanted a pacemaker-like device into the brain of a patient in the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease, one of the first such operations in the United States. 
The device, which provides deep brain stimulation and has been used in thousands of people with Parkinson’s disease, is seen as a possible means of boosting memory and reversing cognitive decline...hopkinsmedicine.org
Nov 252012
Ready for the next generation of robot combat? Syfy has greenlit and
shot the first season of a new show where eight-foot-tall state-of-the-art humanoid robots will rock ‘em and sock ‘em in a boxing cage until one is defeated..insidetv.ew.com
Jul 142012
Mar 062012
In his lab at Penn, Vijay Kumar and his team build flying quadrotors,
small, agile robots that swarm, sense each other, and form ad hoc teams — for construction, surveying disasters and far more.
Dec 042011
Few things are less flattering than puttering around the local Walmart on an electric mobility scooter. 
But that could soon change if these urban concept vehicles make it into production… dvice.com
Oct 112011
Move your butt over, Prius. Japanese toilet manufacturer Toto has a new take on a green driving machine. 
The Toilet Bike Neo combines a three-wheel motorcycle with a latrine. The kooky contraption runs on biogas… news.cnet.com.
Aug 302011
Cornell’s Creative Machines Lab decided to see what would happen if they put two chatbots face to virtual face and got them started talking to one another. Things didn’t go quite as crazy as might have been expected, but a fair amount of pointless argument, passive aggression, and random hilarity did ensue… spectrum.ieee.org
Aug 192011
Researchers at IBM on Thursday unveiled a new generation of 
experimental computer chips “designed to emulate the brain’s abilities for perception, action and cognition”… globalpost.com Continue reading »
Aug 152011
Sometimes technology just gets a little too creepy for its own good. This robotic singing head, created by researchers
at the National Taiwan University of Science and Technology in Taipei, is the perfect example…geekosystem.com
