Google Glass may be pulling ahead with difficulty (the fate of the pioneer who rushes), but Apple seems to be stepping firmly into the wearables arena. Its watch (available next …
robot-pope
A small humanoid robot shows a public school in the Iranian city of Varamin, just outside Tehran, that even machines have souls: it prays, encouraging the little students to do …
actroids
Professor Hiroshi Ishiguro is the director of the Intelligent Robotics Laboratory at Osaka University in Japan. The laboratory deals with the construction of humanoid robots with particular emphasis on facial …
the myth of the machine
The Large Hadron Collider of CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) is a literally pharaonic research project on behalf of (initially) particle physics. It is an “uncompromising experiment,” uncompromising in …
“genetism”
The double helix of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) has become one of the most powerful representations of what life is: life is its chemistry (when it is not its electronics). The …
“smart” glasses
The “most promising” (so far) electronic device for enhancing everyday life, Google’s glasses (Google Glass), has encountered an unexpected obstacle. While residents of cosmopolitan cities live and move among millions …
cyborg runner
The latest achievement of South African sprinter Oscar Pistorius is the cold-blooded murder of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. He was charged with premeditated murder, and prosecution witnesses provided substantial evidence …
Songdo
The city of Songdo, 65 km southwest of Seoul, was built from scratch and is considered a model city in the field of smart cities. The project, which has the …
virtual touch
The ability, through microprojectors that are attached to various points of the body (the head, the arm), for the human skin to become “touchscreen” not has found its commercial utilization, …