Earlier this month at this year’s TED conference, Bill Gates gave an informative talk on his vision of eliminating CO2 emissions.  You can watch it online now at TED.
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Carol Kasyjanski is certainly connected.  She is the first person in the United States to be implanted with a wireless pacemaker.  The wireless pacemaker sends information to a wireless home monitoring system that transmits information …

Toyota’s recent prototype humanoid robot is able to run an average speed of 7 km/h.  The robot is able to remain balanced if pushed when in motion.
Check out the video below to see the robot …

About 1260 AD, Ibn Khallikan, a Kurdish historian living in the Abbasid Empire (modern Iraq), wrote an encyclopedia with biographies of many famous men (though no women). One of the biographies includes a story about …

Solar Impulse is the first 100% solar-powered airplane.  The project began on November 28, 2003 and the plane is going to fly around the world.
The plane will travel at an average speed of 43.5 mph …

Gerrit Blank was hit by a meteorite traveling at 30,000 mph.  This 14 year-old boy story was confirmed by scientists at Germany’s Walter Hohmann Observatory.
“At first I just saw a large ball of light, and …

Australian scientists restored the sight of three patients in less than a month.  Using contact lenses cultured with stem cells.
All three patients were blind in one eye.  The researches extracted stem cells from the patients …

Here is an interesting video with a lot of futuristic concepts imbedded. It is very creative and also tells a story. Pretty cool.

The University of Zaragoza in Spain has developed and built a brain-controlled wheelchair.  The wheelchair is controlled using an EEG cap worn on the head.  Along with using a P300 neurophysiological protocol and automated navigation. …

A humorous perspective on technological progress. To some degree, we are a little spoiled and need to chill a little. I love tech progress, but lets stop and smell the flowers… seriously.
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