"Swing like a dolphin and challenge gravity like Iron Man." That’s what Flyboard Magazine promises for new flyboarders. Invented in 2011, by Franky Zapata, Flyboarding is a sport that allows you to fly above the water, doing flips and turns (once you’ve mastered the throttle and gathered your balance), and dive down into it only to thrust yourself out again back into the air. Sounds awesome, huh? Here are the details…
It’s been a few days since the 2014 Game Developer’s Conference in San Francisco drew to a close. It was a big year this time around, with a whole host of awesome announcements, keynotes, and revelations. Now that we’ve all had a few days to process the conference, why not take a look back?
Xprize – known for awesome projects like a working Star Trek Tricorder – has set its sights on an entirely new frontier: artificial intelligence. The outfit is teaming up with TED in order to produce a TED talk presented entirely by an artificial intelligence. That’s not all – they want your help.
Perhaps you’ve read that the American College of Cardiology (ACC) and
the American Heart Association (AHA) issued new guidelines on which
persons should take statin drugs for the prevention of heart disease
and stroke. On March 19, 2014, in the New England Journal of Medicine,
the AHA presented these guidelines, including age, gender, and race, as
well as various pre-existing health conditions that might call for
statin intervention. But what do the new guidelines mean for you?
If you’re looking for a heart rate monitor, stop going through chest straps and watches. Instead grab a headset. Grab an iriverOn. This wireless headset has a built in biometric sensor that gives real time heart rate measurements. Just connect to your smartphone and get exercise data while you listen to music.
The Glowfaster smart jacket is the latest contender in ‘health
conscious’ wearable technologies. This innovative idea utilizes health-tech features (heart rate sensor, GPS tracking) and presents them in a new,
motivational, way. With other wearable technologies on the horizon, how will the Glowfaster stack up?
Who wouldn’t love to see in the dark? An idea best remembered
from the rainy Tyrannosaurus Rex scene in the original Jurassic Park
movie in 1987, night vision, without clunky technology, is finally getting closer to reality. Researchers at University of Michigan have developed a prototype using graphene to embed into a contact lens or smart
phone camera lens.
With all the controversy of Zohydro
(a painkiller that is about to receive FDA approval despite an 11-2
vote against it by independent experts), the field of electroceuticals
has been launched back into the news: the field of bioelectronics to develop alternatives to
drugs to manipulate the nervous system.
For a Prime Minister who’s embraced technology more so than other national leaders of sovereign states, one’s hard pressed to sympathize with a man who chose to ban Twitter to cover up a political scandal. The disruption and "going dark" incident sparked public fury and outrage. . .
There are two primary challenges facing the world of robotics at the moment: the navigation of complex environments, and the ability to collide safely with humans. MIT’s Computer Science And Artificial Intelligence Laboratory appears to have overcome both, with a robotic fish made of silicone.
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