If you’ve ever wondered about the future of social media or where the web is headed, and your role in the grand scheme of things, watch the video below. The implications are staggering.

[Source: Youtube Via: The Blog Herald]

New Scientist is reporting on a robot, Darwin VII, that has 20,000 brain cells and actually learns!
Researchers at the Neurosciences Institute (NSI) in La Jolla, California have developed ‘Darwin VII’, a trashcan shaped robot that has 20,000 brain cells. The Darwin VII Robot operates on biological principles and without any pre-specified instructions. Essentially, it ‘thinks’ […]

Ok, this one was just too cool to pass up - A company called DeLaval, who’s been in the automatic cow milking machine business for over 100 years, is using Linux embedded technology to run robotic VMS (Voluntary Milking Systems). Here’s a few details from Linuxdevices.com:
When a cow decides to be milked, it enters an […]

I’ve watched science fiction shows on TV and read sci-fi books and magazines since I was knee high to a grasshopper, but reading the news story over at Nature.com about how scientists have successfully melded living organisms and electronic circuits made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up. Here’s a snippit from […]

Ok, you’ll see why I’ve added this one to the Artificial Intelligence category in a second. This ultra cool (hot) coffee travel mug keeps your coffee at the optimal drinking temperature by heating up and releasing a small amount of coffee every time the mug is tilted to take a sip. From the BruGo product […]

To boldly go where no kids wagon has gone before. It appears NASA is readying their next generation robot to search for life on the red planet.
A 3-year NASA project to test a “search-for-life” robot will soon come to an end, but not before one last trip to the Chilean desert. “Zoe,” a solar-powered rover […]

Although it’s probably not as versatile (or potentially enjoyable) as the Repliee Q1, the ZMP home robot from Nuvo IS available in limited quantities in North America. From the product page:
“nuvo” is the first-home-use-type humanoid robot in the world, which means “the humanoid robot for everyone”, not in the movie, drama, or novel, but in […]

I’m a self proclaimed robot freak and while Googling for homemade gadgets, this is what I found. It’s a Dragonfly robot. There are no specs on the site I found it on so no word on whether it actually flies or not, but it would be scary if it did. Enter: Nightmares about swarms of […]

The annual hacker conference DefCon in Las Vegas this weekend has spawned some pretty innovative stuff, not the least of which is the Kegbot. DefCon attendee Phillip Torrone of Make Magazine writes:
One the coolest projects I’ve seen so far at DEFCON was the kegbot, a linux based keg that dispenses beer as long as you […]

Every alien fossil sniffing gadget obsessed space geek needs one of these in their bag of tricks. According to ScienceDaily.com:
Astrobiologists, who search for evidence of life on other planets, may find a proposed Neutron/Gamma ray Geologic Tomography (NUGGET) instrument to be one of the most useful tools in their toolbelt. As conceived by scientists at […]