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Sunday, December 13th 2009, 1:40 AM In this video the surgeon and inventor Catherine Mohr have a very fascinating speech about surgery in the past and in the future. She starts from the time when there was no pain killer, ouch! The main part is about surgery robots performing micro-surgery in places where humans just can’t. This quote (not verbatim), made [...] The paper-less society is near! Picture by Sarah G…
The next generation of eReaders have a great potential for saving paper and the next step some years later is digital paper or ePaper that eventually will replace eReaders. One thing that is so interesting with ePaper is that it’s flexible and bendable. The dream [...] Maglev is short for magnetic levitation trains. These trains use electricity to power up magnets in order to float on a cushion of air over the ground. They reach 500 km/h and are really interesting alternatives to trains and [...] The future is already here – it is just unevenly distributed The best example of a cyborg is, in my opinion, people with a pacemaker. Helping such a vital organ as the heart with a machine is really an example of human and machine in symbiosis. Pacemakers have been around for more than [...] I have my breakfast right now, a cup of red tea, fruit, some bread and butter and corn flakes. I also take an Omega-3 pill. It is not very different from what I had 10 years ago except from the Omega-3 pill. 10 years ago I wouldn’t touch a pill if I was not ill. [...] We have something about robots in the western world. Robots are dangerous. We can accept that they will do the boring and maybe difficult jobs that humans can’t do or avoid to do. Robots are a threat and they will eventually take over. The Terminator! This is not at all the case in the developed Asian countries.The perception of the robots is much more playful and there is even a strong belief in the future of robots. This playful interest in robots is likely to give Asia’s robot development an even greater [...] I read about the next “big” thing, namely 3D TV: The future 3D TV – we look at some of the best angles When Manfred Clynes and Nathan Kline coined the term “cyborg” 50 years ago they were talking about people living in the outer space. Today we can define a cyborg as a human (or other organism) that get increased capabilities with the help of technology. With a passive definition like this most of us are cyborgs [...] Two links about future possibilities and threats. Interpret brain signals and grow [...] |
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