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September 11, 2010

LifeNaut’s First Competitor?

Bruce Personality Archiving DNA Storage, Personality Archiving 3

As unique, futuristic, and outside-the-box as The LifeNaut Project is, believe it or not we seem to have our first Competitor! A fairly new company, Swiss DNA Bank is offering a service analogous to our Mindfile and Biofile projects– like LifeNaut they offer super secure storage of your memories and your DNA. So then what is the biggest difference between Swiss DNA Bank and the LifeNaut Project? Participation in the LifeNaut Mindfile and Biofile programs is 100% FREE

August 26, 2010

Inside Neurosurgery’s Rise

Bruce News Current Trends, Medical, News, Surgery 1

Terry Dagradi/Yale University HISTORY’S PANTRY Most of the jars now at Yale’s Cushing Center contain a single brain; a few hold slices of brains from several patients. They were collected by Dr. Harvey Cushing, a Yale professor and one of the first neurosurgeons in the United States. More Photos » By Randi Hutter Epstein, M.D. […]

August 16, 2010

Chatting With Bina 48, A Robot

Bruce News Coverage Bina48, News, Robotics 4

By Virginia Prescott on Tuesday, July 27, 2010. A Word Of Mouth first: an interview with a robot. Not your typical movie star robot with an all-knowing brain or one that talks in squalks. Bina 48 isn’t made of gleaming metal, and has no body. Just a neck and head that looks uncannily human; with […]

August 1, 2010

Robots Performing Surgery With Full Autonomy

Bruce Robotics Autonomy, Robotics, Surgery 1

LifeNaut Notes: Here’s a really cool article from Smart Machines that includes a brief video of a medical robot undergoing trail tests. Some pretty cool stuff to think that a robot could be automated to operate on the human body. Source: “Robots performing surgery with full autonomy” Robotic arms have been used in medical procedures […]

July 20, 2010

Rex Bionics Exoskeleton To Help Paraplegics Improve Their Quality Of Life

Bruce Bionics Avatar, Bionics, Robotics 0

LifeNaut Notes: A bionic device by definition is the mix of biology and electronics. The Rex Exoskeleton attached to the both to help paraplegics move about in a normal manner. It would seem in this example that the human element is teaching the mechanical element, but who’s to say it’s not the other way around? […]

July 13, 2010

Thermal-Powered, Crawls Into Microrobot Contenders’ Ring

Bruce Human Avatars Microbots, Power, Robotics, Technology, Thermal 1

LifeNaut Notes: One of the questions people think about when contemplating human avatars in the future is power. If there is a substitute to the human body, presumably robotic in some fashion, it will need a source of power. Here’s a great article from Science Daily about a new technology that uses a series of […]

July 5, 2010

Making Friends With A Robot Named Bina48

Bruce News Coverage Artifical Intelligence, Bina48, New York Times, Robotics 5

Source: “Making Friends With A Robot Named Bina48” on the New York Times Published: July 4th, 2010 by Amy Harmon The reporter Amy Harmon talking to Bina48. Bristol, VT. — Ten minutes into my interview with the robot known as Bina48, I longed to shut her down. She was evasive, for one thing. When I […]

June 17, 2010

The Avatar Revolution: Here Come The New Humans

Bruce Human Avatars Avatar, Science, Technology 0

Source: “The Avatar Revolution: Here Come The New Humans” When it was unveiled in June 2000, the first draft of the human genome marked a new stage in our understanding of who we are. Ten years later and our view of human identity may be changing again. Thanks to the plethora of personal information about […]

June 10, 2010

LiminAR Robot Integrates Advertising Into Your Reality

Bruce Augmented Reality Advertising, Augmented Reality, Integration, Robotics, Video 1

Lifenaut Notes: Human integration into the brain of a computer has, and continues to be a hotbed for innovation. This is a great example of how current technologies can be programmed to integrate information into the world around us. Imagine picking up a book at the bookstore and seeing reviews from five of your closest […]

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