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Come Alive With Music And Memory’s iPod Program

Matt Algren — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 20:25:22 +0000

Director Michael Rossato-Bennett of Ximotion Media has announced the release of a fascinating new documentary Alive Inside next week in New York. Alive Inside investigates these questions and the power music has to awaken deeply locked memories. The film follows Dan Cohen, a social worker, who decides on a whim to bring iPods to a […]

Great Scott! Someone Made A Hoverboard!

Jeremy Goldstone — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 20:04:49 +0000

Back to the Future 2 has become the litmus test for whether or not we’ve actually entered “the future.” It looks like we may be one step closer to entering that reality — a team in France has made a hoverboard. That said, the device doesn’t have “the POW-ah” to float more than 2cm off the […]

Putting Your Robot Pants On One Leg At A Time

Kacey Samiee — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 18:11:27 +0000

Why the heck would I go shoe shopping when I can buy a sexy pair of robot pants instead? I recently did some YouTube surfing to catch up on the latest development in robotics and was surprised to find how far we’ve come in the development of exoskeletons. As of 2007, Berkeley Bionics had created […]

I Don’t Need To Quit Smoking, I’ll Pick Up New Lungs On The Way Home

Kacey Samiee — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 15:06:00 +0000

Apparently, while I wasn’t paying attention, the world got real Syfy on me. I recently found out that we’ve successfully grown and implanted a trachea grown from stem cells. Somehow, I missed the entire evolution of this process, but it’s pretty damn amazing, nonetheless. I know we’ve been trying to grow bits and pieces of […]