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Showing posts with label Cyborg. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cyborg. Show all posts

Friday, January 30, 2009

News for Jan. 30th, 2009

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The Army's Remote-Controlled Beetle: The insect's flight path can be wirelessly controlled via a neural implant.

Brain Structure Assists In Immune Response: For the first time, a team of researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine have imaged in real time the body’s immune response to a parasitic infection in the brain.

Working Artificial Nerve Networks Under Development: Scientists have already hooked brains directly to computers by means of metal electrodes, in the hope of both measuring what goes on inside the brain and eventually healing conditions such as blindness or epilepsy. In the future, the interface between brain and artificial system might be based on nerve cells grown for that purpose.


Organic computing takes a step closer
: Computer processors may soon have one fundamental aspect in common with their owners – a structure composed largely of carbon, rather than silicon.

Wednesday, January 28, 2009

TechnoCalyps - Part I - TransHuman

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Part 1 gives an overview of recent technological developments (biogenetics, artificial intelligence, robotics, implants, nanotechnology,AI) and prognoses made by leading scientists about the impact of these developments in the near future.

Thursday, November 27, 2008

News: Cyborg leaf makes working solar power plant

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Gold leafs don't grow on trees, but they can now harvest power from the Sun. Engineers have extracted photosynthetic molecules from a plant and attached these molecules to thin sheets of gold, the result is a photosynthesizing cyborg. (Full Story)

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