The Merge of Man & Machine (Ray Kurzweil)

MSNBC.com video -- (Futurist author Ray Kurzweil on understanding the human mind) :

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Singularity Watch 2012

New Fiber-Optic Technology

Fiber optic technology meets 21st century: Light waves jump from one fiber-optic
to another depending on the adjustment of the distance between them.

Dual-Core Optical Fiber (opli.net)

NanoTech Updates 2012

LEARN MORE:
ALL ABOUT NANOTECHNOLOGY






SEE ALSO: New Nanomaterials (sciencedaily.com)


Nanotube Transistors: Carbon Nanotube Transistors (IBM.com)

Nanocrystal Circuits: Flexible, low-voltage circuits made from nanocrystals (Phys.org)

Graphene 'flexi-electronics' Superelastic 3-D form of Graphene (nature.com)

Silicon Nanophotonics: IBM's light chips (venturebeat.com)

Cloud Computing

Can't Define "The Cloud"? Who Cares? (popsci.com)

Hacking the Cloud (arstechnica.com)

Singularity Watch 2012

LEARN MORE:
ALL ABOUT THE SINGULARITY



Artificial Intelligence: AI knows when people are tweeting about you (forbes.com)


Artificial Intelligence:AI machine named 'Angelina' creates computer games (arstechnica.com)





IBM researchers have used the world's most powerful supercomputer to simulate a virtual brain comparable in complexity to that of a human.
SEE THIS ARTICLE IN GIZMAG.COM (IBM Supercomputer Used to...)

Included in the gizmag.com article is the following video from IBM:



Chris Eliasmith, author of soon to be released book 'How to Build a Brain', and colleagues from the University of Waterloo in Canada have built Spaun (Semantic Pointer Architecture Unified Network) -- a complex computer model simulation of a functioning brain.
SEE THE ARTICLE IN (popsci.com)

Included in the popsci.com article is the following video about Spaun:




SEE ALSO: Scientists See Advances in Deep Learning AI (nytimes.com)
SEE ALSO: Cambridge to open 'Terminator centre' (dailymail.co.uk)
SEE ALSO: How to Code a Life (buzzfeed.com)

The Emergence of Microbots

A 2011 CNN report describes the first microbots:

The Robot Dragonfly from TechJect Dragonfly on Vimeo.

SEE ALSO:Tiny Robots Combine Origami and Insects (news.discovery.com)
SEE ALSO: Micro Petrol Engine (Interesting Engineering on Google+)
SEE ALSO:Swarm of Microbots (sciencedaily.com)

Smartphones Get Smarter

LENR --Low-Energy Nuclear Reaction-- Research

Popular Science reviews modern 'cold-fusion' research (starting with Italian inventor [and former scam artist] Andrea Rossi). These days it's called LENR -- Low-Energy Nuclear Reaction -- research.

ReadAboutIt (PopularScience at: popsci.com)

3-D Printing Review 2012

What is 3-D "printing" ? It's a new way to design plastic toys, jewelry, etc.





Cubify's 3D printer in action:



SpiderBot 3D printer:



Object1000 3D printer:




SEE ALSO:
Printing 3D Firearms: Cody Wilson of the Wiki Weapons Project (popsci.com)

Robotics Review 2012

KURZWEILAI.NET - Advanced humanoid Roboy to be ‘born’ in nine months








Kenshiro: Japanese bio-inspired robot (spectrum.ieee.org)
Included in this article (by spectrum.ieee.org) is the following video:



Human-Like Robot:



kurzweilai.net - Advanced humanoid Roboy to be ‘born’ in nine months

Military Robotics:



The BIGDOG Robot:






The guys at MadLabIndustries have been busy combining a hexapod robot with a RC helicopter kit.
Part 1:

Part 2:













ALSO SEE: ROBOTS AT WORK AND PLAY (theatlantic.com)


ALSO SEE: DARPA's Robotics Challenge (gizmag.com)


ALSO SEE: A Future Full of Robots: How the Japanese view robotics(Phys.org)

ALSO SEE: Telepresence Robots Invade Hospitals (singularityhub.com)

New Technologies From 2012

Alltime 10s presents:




SEE ALSO: 27 science fictions that became science facts in 2012 (buzzfeed.com)

SEE ALSO: 10 World-Changing Innovators for 2012 (Popular Mechanics.com)

SEE ALSO: 10 Science and Technology Advances (SciTech Digest)

SEE ALSO: The 25th Annual Best Of What's New (Popular Science)

SEE ALSO: 7 Amazing Ways Nanotechnology is Changing The World (Popular Science)

SEE ALSO: 6 Electronic Thought-controlled Devices (ScientificAmerican.com)

SEE ALSO: Mobile Videochat Review (PopularMechanics.com)
SEE ALSO: Low-cost Mass-produced Satellites (PopularMechanics.com)
SEE ALSO: 311mph Japanese Maglev Train (geeky-gadgets.com)
SEE ALSO: Stealth Drone passes major test (navair.navy.mil)
SEE ALSO: Taiwan Engineers Defeat Flash Memory Fade (Phys.org)
SEE ALSO: 339 Gigabytes per sec Data Transfer (Phys.org)
SEE ALSO: Smartcards: MasterCard's 'Display Card' (mashable.com)

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Google at Work

Ever been curious about how Google does its work?
ReadAboutIt at: Wired.com


TAKE A WALK THROUGH A GOOGLE DATA CENTER


Google Spanner, the largest single database on Earth is capable of storing information across multiple data centers AND keeping that information consistently accurate from one side of the world to the other.
ReadAboutIt at: Wired.com

OPOC engine technology

Anyone interested in reducing greenhouse-gas emissions world-wide should be interested in OpposingPistonOpposingCylinder technology at EcoMotors International.
ReadAboutIt at: EcoMotors.com



For an in-depth video explanation of opposing-piston technology see:

Cray supercomputer named Titan

Titan steals No. 1 spot on Top500 supercomputer list :
ReadAboutIt at: CNET.com

SeeTheOfficialIntroduction at: ornl.gov

Quantum Computing Updates 2012

LEARN THE BASICS:
ALL ABOUT QUANTUM COMPUTING



The D-WAVE 1 quantum computer :

Visit: The D-Wave Quantum Computing Company website





A landmark in quantum computing: a single atom qubit in a silicon chip:



SEE ALSO: Quantum Computing (MIT News Office)

SEE ALSO: How to Build a Million Qubit Quantum Computer (kurzweilai.net)