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Digital Tattoos Will Alert You to Incoming Calls and Diseases Too

28 February 2008
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Perhaps you’ve had too much to drink, or maybe you’ve contracted malaria — it’s hard to tell, since the human body has no built in diagnosis system.

But that may change with a bit of help from digital tattoos. Everything from mobile phone calls to blood analysis could be displayed from just under your skin. Think of it as a "Check Engine" light for the human …

Controling Machines Using Nothing But Your Mind

21 February 2008
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Have you been longing to move objects with your mind? Yeah, me too.

Well now you can: Emotiv has released a commercial (yes, you can buy one for US$299) version of their mind-machine interface the Epoc Neuroheadset. You can control any game on your PC with the power of thoughts, emotions and expressions [via ubergizmo and The Beeb]

Robots Will Do Interpretive Dances to Your Dream Recordings

18 February 2008
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Robot companions are always looking for new ways to entertain us — lest we grow tired of their antics and banish them to the junk-heap hell of Furbies, Aibos and Tamagotchis.  The newest trick is to "play-back" your dreams in a little dance routine called "Sleep Waking" [via WMMNA]:

How does Sleep Waking work exactly?
I spent a night at The Albany Regional Sleep Disorder …

Year of the Ratbot

13 February 2008
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In the mega cities of the future, we won’t need rats anymore. No, they will be replaced with upgraded models: cyborg-rats [via IO9]

While we’re celebrating the Year of the Rat, we should also take time to celebrate all the groovy developments in robotic rats we’re likely to see this year:

A group …

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    Friday Frivolity With Topless Power Rangers (NSFW)

    Friday Frivolity With Topless Power Rangers (NSFW)

    Because Japanese pr0n is just so wierdly futuristic — it doesn’t matter that this video is ancient and has been making the viral rounds longer than the Bird Flu. Warning: bare breasts! Not safe for work.

    Are you at home? Good. Enjoy Topless Power Rangers.

  • World AIDS Day: Sharing Your PC Will Save Humanity

    World AIDS Day: Sharing Your PC Will Save Humanity

    With the recent media overkill concerning a remotely possible pandemic, it’s easy to lose sight of the real pandemic–HIV/. While the immune-system disease will continue to claim many lives, international disagreement over how to fight the global HIV/Aids pandemic has persisted on World Aids Day. So …

  • TV Will Destory Your Mind (if it hasn\'t done so already)

    TV Will Destory Your Mind (if it hasn’t done so already)

    It’s once again Web Wednesday in Hong Kong tonight. This week’s special guest is from television — no she’s not famous. She’s Ivy Wong, COO for TVB.com (one of Hong Kong’s local broadcasters — Warning: …

  • Friday Frivolity With Robotic Breast Massage

    Friday Frivolity With Robotic Breast Massage

    Science fiction can’t make up stories this crazy: [via Gizmodo]

    Yes, this miracle of modern science is designed for all sorts of women, from “girls who are reaching or having …


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