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Kevin Warwick with his second cyborg impant. This implant, connected to the median nerve in his arm, allowed him to send and receive signals by computer. Image credit: University of Reading

“I think it very likely — in fact inevitable — that biological intelligence is only a transitory phenomenon, a fleeting phase...

H1N1 Virus

Pathogens like the pandemic H1N1 flu virus can now be as easily tracked as the weather using...

Boredom is a Killer

Please, readers! If you experience disinterest, apathy, ennui, malaise, dysthymia, lassitude, or neurasthenia as you peruse this essay... click...

Bio

Brain DNA

When the sequence of the human genome was declared essentially complete in 2003, all biologists (except perhaps Craig Venter) heaved a sigh of...

MIT Personal Robots Group. Photo: expo21xx.com/

You no longer need to contend with crowds, parking, lousy food, or noise to visit the halls of a conference center....

Augmented reality puts the squeeze into virtual hugs. Photo: cdn.physorg.com/

Dzmitry Tsetserukou, an assistant professor at Toyohashi University of Technology in Japan, was the big winner at first Augmented Human...

Richard Kaufman

with Dr. Richard Clark Kaufman of NEURVANA

Let’s start by petting (or shooting) the elephant in the room. All the snarksters will assume that I’m interviewing Dr. Richard Clark...

Mescal

“Beholding beauty with the eye of the mind, he will be enabled to bring forth, not images of beauty, but realities....”...

Neurophone. Photo: sensorlab.cs.dartmouth.edu/

Don your telepathic headset and plug into your iPhone. Want to call your friend? Just look at her picture and think about her.

Robot. Photo: wired.co.uk/

It’s not just the Japanese and Americans who are building humanoid robots. An ambitious coalition of researchers from German, French, and...