Accelerating Future » Top 10 Transhumanist Technologies. Transhumanists advocate the improvement of human capacities through advanced technology. Not just technology as in gadgets you get from Best Buy, but technology in the grander sense of strategies for eliminating disease, providing cheap but high-quality products to the world’s poorest, improving quality of life and social interconnectedness, and so on. Technology we don’t notice because it’s blended in with the fabric of the world, but would immediately take note of its absence if it became unavailable. (Ever tried to travel to another country on foot?) Glass - What It Does. Scientists Read Dreams. Augmented Reality Contact Lenses. Robot Drugbot Delivers Meds In the Middle Of the Night. Scientists Create 'Cyborg' DNA. Researchers Develop DNA Neural Network that Thinks. A team at Caltech has developed an artificial neural network The world’s first neural network, built from DNA molecules with the power to think, has been developed by researchers, at the California Institute of Technology.
Postdoctoral scholar, Lulu Qian, and fellow workers explained, “how molecular systems can exhibit autonomous brain-like behaviors”, in a paper that was made public, containing details about their research, on July 21. Taking the example of the unicellular organisms that display very limited intelligence, the researchers created four neurons, based on 112 specific DNA strands from the 100 billion neurons, present inside the human brain. The simple neural network functions on the basic input-output device, is known as a strand displacement cascade. Speech-Jamming Gun Unveiled By Japanese Researchers (Video)
GM cars getting a little more creepy. September 22, 2011.
Chemists Create Bipedal, Autonomous DNA Walker. Chemists at New York University and Harvard University have created a bipedal, autonomous DNA "walker" that can mimic a cell's transportation system.
The device, which marks a step toward more complex synthetic molecular motor systems, is described in the most recent issue of the journal Science. Computer Used To Decode Brain Activity. Scientists believe they have found a way to read people's minds in what could be the first step towards helping brain-damaged patients who cannot speak. US researchers used a computer programme to decode brain activity and put it into words using a form of electronic telepathy.
Experts described the breakthrough, unveiled in the journal Public Library of Science Biology, as "remarkable" and believe it could ultimately be possible to decipher people's thoughts. Researchers at the University of California in Berkeley used the programme to predict what spoken words volunteers had listened to by analysing their brain activity. Previous research has shown imagined words activate similar brain areas as words that are said aloud, raising hopes they can also be uncovered by "reading" brain waves. Top 5 Scary Modern Technologies" Scientists Read Dreams. Mind-Reading Experiment Reconstructs Movies in Our Mind. The approximate reconstruction (right) of a movie clip (left) is achieved through brain imaging and computer simulation.UC Berkeley It sounds like science fiction: While volunteers watched movie clips, a scanner watched their brains.
Creepy Technology: An Anthology of Unusual Data Theft Techniques. Two intersecting trends are challenging the very concept of privacy: the first is the enormous amount of digital information transmitted every day; the second is the growing number of techniques being developed to capture, search and analyze that data.
Here is a short anthology of some interesting and inventive methods that may be used to steal your data and identity. Creepy This aptly named "geolocation aggregator" gathers location data from social networking sites and image hosting services. Digital image files contain EXIF tags which record the image's date and time stamp information. Some cameras and smart phones can also provide GPS data along with the time stamp.
Nokia Patents Vibrating Tattoo, Lets You Feel Alerts. Mar 20, 2012 11:32am (Image credit: United States Patent and Trademark Office) Finnish cell phone maker Nokia has filed a U.S. patent application for a magnetic vibrating tattoo that could wirelessly connect to a mobile device and alert users of phone calls, texts and battery status–all via vibration.
Darpa Wants You to Transcribe, and Instantly Recall, All of Your Conversations. Remote Control of Brain Activity Using Ultrasound Dr.
William J. Tyler is an Assistant Professor in the School of Life Sciences at Arizona State University, is a co-founder and the CSO of SynSonix, Inc., and a member of the 2010 DARPA Young Faculty Award class. Every single aspect of human sensation, perception, emotion, and behavior is regulated by brain activity. Thus, having the ability to stimulate brain function is a powerful technology. Recent advances in neurotechnology have shown that brain stimulation is capable of treating neurological diseases and brain injury, as well as serving platforms around which brain-computer interfaces can be built for various purposes. Could Brain Imaging Replace The SAT?
Imagine it's the year 2032.
You are a high school student. You are at a center where a visual scanner confirms your identity so you can enter a room where you are about to receive a brain scan. A robot attendant with a soothing voice recommends that you should relax and that you are welcome to take a nap. As you lie down in the scanner and earphones playing your favorite music block out ambient noise, you find yourself drifting off to sleep .