Category: Invention

Google’s Project Glass could change our views

Google’s Project Glass could change our views

May 10, 2012

Every time there is a new smart phone put on the market, millions of people flock to the release in...

Driverless technology: Google gets behind the wheel

Driverless technology: Google gets behind the wheel

June 30, 2022

The future is now. At least, that is what we will be saying when the driverless automobile takes to the...

BRAD: The ridiculously automated dorm room at Berkeley is much cooler than yours

BRAD: The ridiculously automated dorm room at Berkeley is much cooler than yours

May 4, 2012

The dorm rooms that are often the most visited by friends are the ones with a fridge, a Playstation, and...

Google’s driverless car comes with (satirical) consequences

Google’s driverless car comes with (satirical) consequences

March 30, 2012

With California having major financial woes, the Google Driverless Car may be enough to tank the entire state since ID...

Google’s self-driving car user #0000000001

Google’s self-driving car user #0000000001

March 29, 2012

Steve Mahan is just like everyone else with a car. He likes to hop in the driver's seat on a...

Can robotic supports replace wheelchairs for many?

Can robotic supports replace wheelchairs for many?

November 18, 2022

  The Tek Robotic Mobilization Device developed by Istanbul, Turkey-based AMS Mekatronic, bridges the gap between bulky wheelchairs with the...

The DARPA “Cheetah” is fast and freaky

The DARPA “Cheetah” is fast and freaky

March 8, 2012

There have been many innovations in recent months that have blown us away from the world of robotics. If there's...

Is this creepy android mannequin the future of retail merchandising?

Is this creepy android mannequin the future of retail merchandising?

February 11, 2012

If this is the future of retail, I'll be shopping online more often. Takashimaya, a department store in Tokyo, is...

Autonomous nano quadrotors amaze (and terrify) with complicated formation runs

Autonomous nano quadrotors amaze (and terrify) with complicated formation runs

February 1, 2012

Quadrotor technology developed at the General Robotics, Automation, Sensing and Perception (GRASP) lab at the University of Pennsylvania is able...

Ericsson’s vision of a “Networked Society” is beautiful, terrifying

Ericsson’s vision of a “Networked Society” is beautiful, terrifying

January 6, 2012

There's a fine line between technology that enables a better world and technology that makes us head in the wrong...

Flying robots that build things open doors to automated architecture

Flying robots that build things open doors to automated architecture

December 29, 2011

In the movies, it always start innocently. They are designed to help humans, to do the mundane or difficult tasks...

Minority Report (in real life)

Minority Report (in real life)

December 7, 2011

The Tom Cruise-driven vision of a future (almost) completely without murder worked with the concept that if we could use...