Kurzweil writes that, due to paradigm shifts, a trend of exponential growth extends Moore’s law from integrated circuits to earlier transistors, vacuum tubes, relays, and electromechanical computers. He predicts that the exponential growth will continue, and that in a few decades the computing power of all computers will exceed that of human brains, with superhuman [...]
Health – Future Vision We have all imagined how the future will look like in one way or another. This movie is trying to show us how the medical and health will will look like. At the beginning of the movie we have a runner measures her performance using a small tablet. Arriving home, the [...]
Empathy The brain is made out of same type of neurons that act different. Some of these neurons are so called “mirror neurons” or “ordinary motor command neurons” and are found in the frontal brain or the frontal lobes. These neurons will fire when a person performs a specific action like grabbing something, touching something [...]
Scientists announced, about three weeks ago, that neutrinos travelling between France and Italy had been clocked moving faster than light. The experiment, called OPERA, found that the particles produced at CERN near Geneva arrived at the Gran Sasso Laboratory in Italy 60 nanoseconds earlier than the speed of light allows. The general feeling is that [...]
Researchers developed prosthetics that respond to stimulus from the brain and function just as the original appendage it is replacing. But ideally the prosthetic wouldn’t just respond to stimulus from the brain. It would also provide sensory stimulus to the brain. It would have a sense of touch. Duke University Medical Center runs a program where trained [...]
Scientists working in robotics know that nature holds the best ideas for making robots that can perform with speed, agility, and efficiency. At University of California, Berkeley, the Biomimetic Millisystems Lab created a new robotic creatures (CLASH), that moves vertically up cloth. Its lab mission is to harness features of animal manipulation, locomotion, sensing, actuation, mechanics, dynamics, and [...]
Eye display technology (a Jason Kennedy article for extremetech.com) Students at Washington University working with the IEEE released a paper showing that they could create a contact lens containing a LED and a wireless antenna that was powered through an RF-charged storage capacitor. This means that it’s a contact lens that can catch wireless signals [...]
Anti aging process could accelerated in the future Stem cells are biological cells found in all multicellular organisms, that can divide (through mitosis) and differentiate into diverse specialized cell types and can self-renew to produce more stem cells. In mammals, there are two broad types of stem cells: embryonic stem cells, which are isolated from [...]
The only problem with the artificial blood vessels was supplying the artificial tissue with nutrients that have to arrive via capillary vessels. According to BBC NEWS, a team at the Fraunhofer Institute in Germany has solved that problem using 3D printing and a technique called multiphoton polymerisation. This discovery will be presented Biotechnica Fair in [...]
Fuels of the future? Well… to transport something you need a vehicle that runs with some type of fuel, but how will the fuel look in the future? We have some ideas about potential fuel sources. 1. Perpetuum mobile. Perpetual motion describes hypothetical machines that operate or produce useful work indefinitely and, more generally, hypothetical machines [...]
HUMANITY TO 0-1 Modern science tries to create virtual models that are reacting like our body. Immagine that we will be able to test drugs, do surgery operations, do brain experiments or other types of experments on a virtual model that works just like our body. In the future, doctors, will be able to test [...]
Electric cars of the future More and more, the electric cars are taking position into the world market. Electric cars are not yet ready to fully replace a classic fossile propulsated car, in the future fossil combustion will be forgotten. We must sustain research for electric cars industry, because this could be the only way [...]