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iCub Learns About Rolling Objects

33rdsquare@gmail.com — Fri, 25 May 2012 14:10:33 PDT

Robots The humanoid robot iCub is now being taught how to play with rolling objects. By using kinematic control, the robot is able to correctly roll toys that are placed on a...

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SpaceX Dragon Module Successfully Berths To Space Station

33rdsquare@gmail.com — Fri, 25 May 2012 12:42:38 PDT

Space SpaceX, owned by entrepreneur Elon Musk, has now reached the climax of its test mission to become the first privately owned craft to reach the space station, restoring U.S. access to...

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Researchers Turn DNA Into Biological Flash Drive

33rdsquare@gmail.com — Fri, 25 May 2012 10:34:24 PDT

Biotech A technique for repeatedly encoding, storing and erasing digital data within the DNA of living cells, using natural enzymes adapted from bacteria has been developed by Stanford...

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THNKRTV Coming Soon To YouTube

33rdsquare@gmail.com — Fri, 25 May 2012 07:37:14 PDT

Ideas On July 2nd, @radical media will commence broadcasting on the THNKRTV YouTube channel. THNKR is an exciting new YouTube channel giving you extraordinary access to the ideas,...

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First Video Shot With Google Project Glass Released

33rdsquare@gmail.com — Fri, 25 May 2012 05:32:18 PDT

Gadgets Google has released a sample video from its Project Glass device — providing an early look at how the glasses can capture video and photos. The video, just 15 seconds long and...

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Transhumanism Student Film Explores The Issues

33rdsquare@gmail.com — Thu, 24 May 2012 21:28:29 PDT

Transhumanism Transhumanism is a philosophical movement that strives to move intelligent life beyond the limitations of its current human form with the use of science and technology. The...

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Samsung Patent Application Involves Speech Recognition For Robots

33rdsquare@gmail.com — Thu, 24 May 2012 20:51:27 PDT

Robots Samsung recently applied for a patent that hints at new speech recognition engines that will be able to single out speakers in crowded and noisy environments. Conceivably the...

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Canadarm2 Will Grab SpaceX's Dragon Module Tomorrow

33rdsquare@gmail.com — Thu, 24 May 2012 10:33:17 PDT

Space When the SpaceX Dragon module passes all of its demonstration tests, The Canadarm2 (Space Station arm) will grapple the capsule and dock it to the Station. An animation from the...

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Researchers Delaying Stem Cell Ageing May Unlock Key To Immortality

33rdsquare@gmail.com — Thu, 24 May 2012 09:21:50 PDT

Immortality Researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have uncovered a series of biological events that implicate stem cells’ “niche” (surroundings) as the culprit in loss...

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Researcher Uses Supercomputer To Track Viruses

33rdsquare@gmail.com — Wed, 23 May 2012 11:36:53 PDT

Genomics Biomedical informatics researcher, Daniel Janies tracks dangerous viruses as they spread around the globe. He has restructured his innovative tracking software to promote even...

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A New X Prize Challenge Will Be Announced Tomorrow

33rdsquare@gmail.com — Wed, 23 May 2012 09:22:58 PDT

X PRIZE The X PRIZE Foundation will launch a new X CHALLENGE tomorrow, Thursday May 24th, at the Wireless Health Convergence Summit. X PRIZE will launch a new X CHALLENGE...

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SETI Research Progressing Exponentially

33rdsquare@gmail.com — Wed, 23 May 2012 09:08:13 PDT

SETI In a recent TED presentation, SETI researcher Seth Shostak describes how advances in astronomy and technology have now put the search for extraterrestrial intelligence on an...

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Larry Page Looks At The Future Through Google Glasses

33rdsquare@gmail.com — Wed, 23 May 2012 07:41:39 PDT

Gadgets While presenting at the Zeitgeist 2012 Beyond Talk session in London, Google CEO Larry Page showed off his Project Glass glasses, the augmented reality glasses that Google is...

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DARPA Kicks Off Assembly Line Project For Genetic Engineering

33rdsquare@gmail.com — Wed, 23 May 2012 07:18:07 PDT

DARPA DARPA has awarded funding to multiple organizations as part of the Living Foundries project that will invest in and develop synthetic biology projects. The goal, according to the...

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Hans Rosling Predicts Human Population to Level Off At 10 Billion

33rdsquare@gmail.com — Tue, 22 May 2012 12:27:47 PDT

Demographics In Hans Rosling’s hands, data sings. Global trends in health and economics come to vivid life. And the big picture of global development—with some surprisingly good...

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Nerve Transfer Surgery Restores Hand Function

33rdsquare@gmail.com — Tue, 22 May 2012 09:05:51 PDT

Medicine Surgeons at the Washington University School of Medicine have reported the successful rerouting of working nerves in the upper arms of a quadriplegic patient, restoring some hand...

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Piezoelectric Nanogenerator Created By Korean Researchers

33rdsquare@gmail.com — Tue, 22 May 2012 07:29:07 PDT

Nanotechnology Researchers at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) have created a new piezoelectric nanogenerator that promises to overcome the restrictions...

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SpaceX Sucessfully Launches NASA Demonstration Mission

33rdsquare@gmail.com — Tue, 22 May 2012 05:36:47 PDT

Image Source: Robert Pearlman/collectSPACE.com SpaceX A private space capsule called Dragon soared into the predawn sky Tuesday, riding a pillar of flame like its beastly...

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MIT's Robot Cheetah Goes For A Stroll

33rdsquare@gmail.com — Mon, 21 May 2012 22:16:09 PDT

Robotics DARPA's Maximum Mobility and Manipulation (M3) program seeks to create and demonstrate significant scientific and engineering advances in robot mobility and manipulation...

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The Amazing Robots At ICRA 2012

33rdsquare@gmail.com — Mon, 21 May 2012 21:54:17 PDT

Robotics The 2012 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) attracted more than 1,700 people to the River Centre convention center in St. Paul, Minnesota, last...

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Purdue Researchers Create Robotics Inspired by Origami

33rdsquare@gmail.com — Mon, 21 May 2012 21:55:13 PDT

Robotics Researchers have shown how to create morphing robotic mechanisms and shape-shifting sculptures from a single sheet of paper in a method reminiscent of origami, the Japanese art...

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Probing Phineas Gage's Connectome

33rdsquare@gmail.com — Fri, 18 May 2012 06:48:36 PDT

Neuroscience Anyone familiar with psychology or neuroscience will be familiar with the incredible case of Phineas Gage, the railroad worker who had a metre-long iron rod propelled...

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Coffee Drinkers Have Associated Lower Death Risk

33rdsquare@gmail.com — Fri, 18 May 2012 06:12:17 PDT

Longevity Coffee seems to be good for you. Or at least it’s not bad, say researchers who led the largest-ever study of coffee and health. They found that coffee drinkers seemed a...

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Speaker Capable Of Recreating Dolphin Sounds Underwater Developed By Japanese Scientists

33rdsquare@gmail.com — Thu, 17 May 2012 21:58:45 PDT

Human-Animal Communications Japanese scientists have created an underwater speaker that’s capable of playing back the creatures’ entire acoustic range. The next step - see how they...

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The Third Industrial Revolution

33rdsquare@gmail.com — Thu, 17 May 2012 21:35:11 PDT

Digital Manufacturing From the year 2000 to 2010 the number of manufacturing jobs in America fell by about a third. The rise of outsourcing and offshoring and the growth of sophisticated...

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Tue, 08 May 2012 00:00:00 PDT

The Office Of The Future
The office a few years from now will in most ways physically resembles the office of today. People will still sit at desks and meet in conference rooms and get food from the cafeteria. There will be some new gadgets: more tablet computers, for example, and 3D printers capable of spot-manufacturing small three-dimensional objects. The big changes to the way we work will be in the gadgets - they will be as powerful as mainframes, allowing workers to do heavy computing work, like product design, on the go. Tiny sensors will monitor your movements and, based on the departments you visit, recommend potential co-workers to meet and work with.

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Fri, 04 May 2012 00:00:00 PDT

33rd Square | Quadrotors Fly Independently Outdoors
Most of the demonstrations of autonomous quadrotors, such as the famous University of Pennsylvania presentation at TED by Vijay Kumar, so far have been in controlled, indoor environments. The sFly project is working to make the amazing technology available for outdoor autonomous operations.

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Wed, 02 May 2012 00:00:00 PDT

Funny Stuff for Your Day: Say NO to Crack, Say YES! to Roller Skating
Say NO to Crack, Say YES! to Roller Skating

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Sat, 28 Apr 2012 00:00:00 PDT

33rd Square | Robot Companions For All Europeans?
As part of the Future and Emerging Technologies Flagship initiative in the EU, Robot Companions for Citizens is being launched. The program aims to give a robot.

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Fri, 27 Apr 2012 00:00:00 PDT

Founders Of SMART Technologies Stepping Away From Executive Roles
Nancy Knowlton, co-founder, president and chief executive, and David Martin, co-founder and executive chairman of SMART Technologies announced they are leaving their executive management roles as of Monday. SMART Technologies is the world's biggest supplier of interactive whiteboards.

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Thu, 26 Apr 2012 00:00:00 PDT

33rd Square | Big Think Interview With Peter Diamandis
In a Big Think conversation with Peter Diamandis provides a background on the dynamic visionary behind the recently announced Planetary Resources, the X Prize, Singularity University, Space Adventures and many more ventures that are helping to shape our future.

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Sat, 21 Apr 2012 00:00:00 PDT

Funny Stuff for Your Day
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Funny Stuff for Your Day: Princess Leia Dude
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