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Feb 8, 2016

Now, Scientists Can Suture Wounds with Lasers

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, futurism

A new method of closing wounds has been discovered by researchers from University of St. Andrews and Harvard Medical School.

In the future, your wounds might not be closed by stitches or staples. Instead, they will be fixed with lasers.

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Feb 8, 2016

How to Never Forget a Name? In the Future, We’ll Just Google Our Brain

Posted by in categories: futurism, neuroscience

Have you ever walked into a room and forgot why you where there? Or while in the middle of conversation forgot a person’s name? Or briefing your boss on a project, only to stumble because a crucial factoid escaped your mind?

Yeah, me too.

“Tip of the tongue” syndrome haunts us all — that feeling where you’re close to remembering something, but just can’t seem to get there. But what if, at that exact moment, an AI-powered “cognitive assistant” pitches in and delivers that missing piece of information straight into your ear?

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Feb 6, 2016

Animated GIF — Find & Share on GIPHY

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Self balanced surface using PID Controller.


Discover & Share this Animated GIF with everyone you know. GIPHY is how you search, share, discover, and create GIFs.

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Feb 6, 2016

2016: The Year of “More Than Moore”

Posted by in category: futurism

When people say “More Than Moore,” they are referring to ways to increase the density and decrease the size of their designs via methods other than simply scaling the transistors.

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Feb 6, 2016

This futuristic fighter jet will probably be unveiled to America during the Super Bowl

Posted by in categories: futurism, transportation

https://youtube.com/watch?v=sGzhmVmuSTA

A thing of beauty!


They zip and dart across the sky in a three-jet formation, a six-second apparition in a 30-second commercial touting the achievements of defense contractor Northrop Grumman. Unlike modern jets, such as the F-22 Raptor or F-16 Fighting Falcon, they have no tail and are likely to be armed with lasers that are straight out of a science-fiction movie.

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Feb 6, 2016

Why former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is ‘pleased’ to own Twitter stock

Posted by in category: futurism

Hmmm,


Steve Ballmer says Twitter has a great brand and lots of room to improve the product and the company’s cost structure.

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Feb 6, 2016

Watch An Artificial Chameleon Change Color

Posted by in category: futurism

Chameleons are masters at rapidly changing the color of their skin to camouflage themselves or communicate with others. Scientists worldwide have long sought to mimic the skins of these reptiles to render people effectively invisible with chameleon suits.

Now a mechanical chameleon from China can change color to almost every hue in the visible spectrum with the aid of bumps made of gold and silver on its skin, researchers say. The scientists published their work this past month in the journal ACS Nano.

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Feb 5, 2016

Watch this guy control his Tesla from his Apple Watch

Posted by in categories: futurism, transportation

The future didn’t come with jetpacks, but it does have this.

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Feb 5, 2016

Will Retail Stores Of The Future Be Run By Robots?

Posted by in categories: futurism, robotics/AI

Will Retail Stores of the future include robots as service/ floor reps & cashiers as reps — I believe so.


SoftBank gives preview Of robotic retail with Pepper, its humanoid robot.

Is our new tech-savvy customer base ready for robotic sales associates? Japanese tech firm SoftBank says yes, and offers its humanoid robot, Pepper, as an example.

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Feb 5, 2016

Star Trek Philosophy: “I know you’re a computer-generated image, but you seem so real.”

Posted by in categories: computing, futurism

“I know that you’re a computer-generated image, but your smell, your touch, the way you feel, even the things you say and think seem so real.” — Commander William Riker.


Serious Wonder looks at various episodes of Star Trek to unlock their future-oriented humanist philosophy. — B.J. Murphy for Serious Wonder.

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