Lifeboat Foundation

193 posts by Bryan Gatton

• A Japanese doctor who studied longevity — and lived to 105 — reveals the key to living a long life – September 25, 2017
• Japan Unveils a Buddhist Funeral Robot – August 24, 2017
• The new Abraham Lincoln animatronic is so life-like the viewers will feel like they’re in Gettysburg in 1863 – August 19, 2017
• With genetic morph, a weird type of anthrax has emerged—and it’s on a rampage – August 6, 2017
• Chinese Chatbots Apparently Re-educated After Political Faux Pas – August 4, 2017
• This Self-Flying Drone Is a Taxi That Can Fly 30 Miles – June 17, 2017
• This Tattoo Changes Colors As Your Blood Sugar Levels Change – June 17, 2017
• Meet The World’s First Adult ‘Service’ Droid – June 8, 2017
• This mini-tank is the future of firefighting – May 31, 2017
• Robot Lifts And Parks Your Car – May 27, 2017
• Kniterate will print your next sweater – April 10, 2017
• The FDA Just Greenlit the First Consumer DNA Tests for Disease Risk – April 6, 2017
• Cubans Have Had a Vaccine for Lung Cancer Since 2011, and Now the U.S. Can Finally Use It – April 2, 2017
• Norway Gets a New Doomsday Vault That Stores Data – April 2, 2017
• This Little Girl Befriended A Water Heater – March 28, 2017
• Scientists find a low-cost way to build genomes from scratch – March 26, 2017
• Major Breakthrough Could Enable Mass Produced Artificial Blood – March 25, 2017
• Farmers of the Future Will Sit Behind Screens – March 25, 2017
• #ZoomVision – March 20, 2017
• Minitaur Has Never Met an Obstacle It Couldn’t Overcome – March 18, 2017
• IBM Has Devised a Way to “Grow” Computer Chips – March 14, 2017
• This could be the future of human burial sites – March 10, 2017
• These 12 Superbugs Could Wipe Out Humanity – March 3, 2017
• Robots are about to make your beer runs – March 3, 2017
• Forget Mammoths, We Could Bring Dinosaurs and Neanderthals Back to Life – March 1, 2017
• Do Robots Deserve Rights? – February 28, 2017
• #LiDARWearable – February 15, 2017
• Google’s “DeepMind‘ AI Understands The Benefits Of Betrayal – February 13, 2017
• Astronauts aboard the International Space Station remotely controlled robots on Earth this week – February 11, 2017
• DARPA’s Robotic Arm Snatches Drones From Mid-Air – February 11, 2017
• This creepy robot walks like a chicken and could someday deliver your groceries – February 10, 2017
• Japanese AI Writes a Novel, Nearly Wins Literary Award – February 7, 2017
• This could be revolutionary – February 3, 2017
• Boston Dynamics “nightmare inducing” wheeled robot “Handle”, presentation video close-up – February 2, 2017
• Printed human body parts could soon be available for transplant – January 31, 2017
• GM and Honda will mass-produce hydrogen fuel cells together – January 30, 2017
• Until we create replacement eyes – January 30, 2017
• Researchers create first viable hybrid human-pig embryo – January 26, 2017
• Scientists are making genetically modified cyborg dragonflies – January 26, 2017
• China Says Its World-First ‘Exascale’ Supercomputer Is Almost Complete – January 21, 2017
• Did You Know? – January 18, 2017
• Woman In The US Dies After Infection From Bacteria Resistant To 26 Antibiotic Drugs – January 16, 2017
• Designing Robots For Future Space Exploration – January 15, 2017
• Body-Pierced Gadget Turns You Into a Human Compass – January 14, 2017
• Pentagon Tests ‘Drone Swarm’ Super Weapon – January 13, 2017
• MEPs vote on robots’ legal status – January 12, 2017
• A little vaudeville to brighten the day – January 7, 2017
• AI could boost productivity but increase wealth inequality, White House says – December 21, 2016
• Google’s DeepMind develops creepy, ultra-realistic human speech synthesis – December 18, 2016
• New BMW motorcycle – December 17, 2016
• Aging May Be Reversible: Researchers Rejuvenate Older Mice – December 15, 2016
• Babies made from three people approved in UK – December 15, 2016
• UC Berkeley’s wall-jumping robot – December 11, 2016
• The future just arrived, first state legalizes driverless cars (5 Photos) – December 11, 2016
• Electronic utensil assists people with limited mobility – December 10, 2016
• A First-of-Its-Kind HIV Vaccine Will Move to Phase II Trials in 2017 – December 4, 2016
• Would you eat a pizza delivered by a drone? – December 4, 2016
• Mapping the Genes that Increase Lifespan – November 7, 2016
• The Artificial Pancreas Is Here – November 6, 2016
• Hexapod All-Terrain Robot – November 6, 2016
• Leaked Pentagon Video About The Future Of Megacities Is So Very Grim – November 1, 2016
• Who Will Be First To “Hack The Code” Of Aging? – October 31, 2016
• Michael Fossel on Aging and the Telomerase Revolution – October 31, 2016
• Tiny swarm bots form a queue – October 31, 2016
• We still don’t have energy-positive fusion yet, but MIT just got close – October 30, 2016
• Google AI invents its own cryptographic algorithm; no one knows how it works – October 28, 2016
• Elon Musk’s Mars colony would have a horde of mining robots – October 23, 2016
• This artificially intelligent camera drone can follow its subjects around – October 23, 2016
• Tokyo’s underground bike vaults – October 19, 2016
• Will you become a citizen of Asgardia, the first nation state in space? – October 12, 2016
• ‘Smart clothing’ could someday power cell phones with the sun’s rays – October 5, 2016
• It’s the Hotel Snack Bot – September 30, 2016
• NewWind Turbines – September 25, 2016
• This In-Ear Device – September 24, 2016
• EcoHelmet: This foldable bike helmet is made from paper – September 17, 2016
• This robot has learned how to balance itself on one leg like a real human being – September 16, 2016
• Would you eat pizza made – September 14, 2016
• Uber’s Self-Driving Cars Hit The Road Today – September 14, 2016
• Whoa! What a cool way to transfer energy into electricity! – September 9, 2016
• Rocket Baby – September 5, 2016
• How Elon Musk Plays With His Kid – September 5, 2016
• This robotic kitchen has dinner covered – September 4, 2016
• Survival Capsule – August 31, 2016
• Melting Permafrost Could Thaw A Smallpox Graveyard In Siberia – August 22, 2016
• Now you can explore for yourself, if life really is better under the sea – August 20, 2016
• Futurism Photo – August 8, 2016
• Liquid Fire Ants – August 4, 2016
• Researchers have made a prosthetic arm based off Luke Skywalker’s – July 30, 2016
• Biodegradable Smart Implant – July 30, 2016
• Anti-Drone Rifle – July 27, 2016
• PlayGround + – July 23, 2016
• YOO — Timeline – July 22, 2016
• This Swedish Grocery Store Has No Employees – July 21, 2016
• Facebook’s flock of drones – July 21, 2016
• I-Road Motorcycle-Car Hybrid – July 17, 2016
• Virtual Reality Food – July 15, 2016
• SpotMini Robot Dog – June 23, 2016
• Solar Impulse 2 completes world’s first solar-powered Atlantic flight – June 23, 2016
• Humans With Amplified Intelligence Could Be More Powerful Than AI – June 11, 2016
• The Pentagon is building a ‘self-aware’ killer robot army fueled by social media – June 1, 2016
• Thailand Creating Forests – May 28, 2016
• US biochemist wins award for rewriting DNA to mimic evolution – May 24, 2016
• Scientists just got a step closer to creating a universal allergy treatment – April 21, 2016
• Plastic Eating Mushrooms! – April 21, 2016
• That’s Awesome ( Credit: DIY Laser Guy ) – April 12, 2016
• DNews — Cotton Candy Capillary – February 27, 2016
• Robotic cockroach – February 20, 2016
• Scientists Have Created Miniature Versions of the Human Brain Using Skin Cells – February 18, 2016
• Check Out DARPA’s Newly Completed Robot Ship – February 16, 2016
• Interesting Futurism Animation 21 – February 13, 2016
• ViaSat to Launch Satellite to Provide 1 Terabit Internet Connection – February 11, 2016
• Low B12 Seen in Aging, Autism and Schizophrenia – February 11, 2016
• A friendly reminder: Technology, like science, is neither good nor bad – February 10, 2016
• Microbiologists discover caffeine-adapted bacteria living in the sludge in their office coffee machine – February 6, 2016
• How do you think technology will change the school (and the education) of the future? – February 4, 2016
• A new budget exoskeleton could help paraplegics walk at a drastically lower price – February 4, 2016
• Homo Sapiens May Evolve into Homo Optimus – February 3, 2016
• Physicists Propose the First Scheme to Teleport the Memory of an Organism – January 22, 2016
• This Man Controls His Bionic Arm With His Brain – January 21, 2016
• Mind Blowing Facts Photo – January 21, 2016
• Ever wonder what lies underneath animatronic heads? – January 17, 2016
• How the GyroGlove Steadies Hands of Parkinson’s Patients – January 17, 2016
• RFID Tagging Chip is Here for the Human – January 14, 2016
• First Dengue Fever Vaccine Gets Green Light in Three Countries – January 3, 2016
• The bionic pancreas: harbinger of a new era in organ replacement? – December 26, 2015
• Jack Horner wants to retro-engineer a pet dinosaur from a chicken. THIS IS NOT A DRILL – December 25, 2015
• Engadget: Happy Holidays! – December 23, 2015
• We are lucky to be alive – December 23, 2015
• Updated: Budget agreement boosts U.S. science – December 17, 2015
• Could RoboBees Ever Take the Place of Real Bees? – December 6, 2015
• Researchers Working on Technology to Bring Dead Back to Life – November 27, 2015
• Just a couple of days ago, SpaceX has officially received the green light from NASA to launch manned space missions to the ISS by 2017 – November 22, 2015
• Your Gut May Be Home to an Entirely New Form of Life – November 12, 2015
• NASA is now hiring astronauts to head up Mars mission – November 8, 2015
• What an abomination! – November 4, 2015
• Phenylpiracetam: The Effects, Usages and Dosages – November 2, 2015
• New artificial skin can detect pressure and heat simultaneously – November 2, 2015
• Scientists Have Genetically Engineered Dogs To Make Them More Muscly – October 21, 2015
• Cops are asking Ancestry.com and 23andMe for their customers’ DNA – October 18, 2015
• Anti-drone rifle shoots down UAVs with radio waves – October 15, 2015
• Gene-Edited “Micropigs” to Be Sold as Pets – October 3, 2015
• Scientists pioneer 3-D-printed drug delivering micro-needles – September 29, 2015
• NASA Finds “Strong” Evidence For Water On Mars – September 28, 2015
• This is world’s first biolimb, a rat forelimb grown in the lab – September 27, 2015
• Zuckerberg, Gates make bid for universal Internet access – September 26, 2015
• Humanity makes first ever withdrawal from the doomsday seed vault – September 22, 2015
• TF-X Flying Car IDEA GI Page – September 21, 2015
• Japan’s Friendly Robot Is Getting a Snarky Attitude Adjustment For Americans – September 17, 2015
• Paralyzed Man Successfully Given Prosthetic Hand That Can ‘Feel’ – September 14, 2015
• Frankenvirus emerges from Siberia’s frozen wasteland – September 9, 2015
• Gene Editing Is Now Cheap and Easy—and No One Is Prepared for the Consequences – September 8, 2015
• Will Your Car Obey You or the Police? – September 3, 2015
• AI Robot Learns Words In Real Time & Tells Human Creators It Will Keep Them In A “People Zoo” – September 2, 2015
• The Air Force Wants You to Trust Robots–Should You? – August 26, 2015
• Scientists Get One Step Closer to a Universal Flu Vaccine – August 24, 2015
• Computer scientists have found that robots evolve more quickly and efficiently after a virtual mass extinction modeled after real-life disasters such as the one that killed off the dinosaurs – August 23, 2015
• Miniature brain-in-a-dish could help advance Alzheimer’s research – August 19, 2015
• Is Solar Power Right for You? Have Google’s “Project Sunroof” Help You Decide – August 18, 2015
• The UK is testing out roads that charge electric cars as they go – August 17, 2015
• Body-hackers: The People Who Turn Themselves into Cyborgs – August 16, 2015
• Computers are really, really good at recognizing faces… – August 15, 2015
• Robot builds its own children, mimics evolution – August 12, 2015
• WATCH: The dawn of the bionic man – August 9, 2015
• Ban Killer Robots before They Become Weapons of Mass Destruction – August 7, 2015
• Warforged are robots right?? Who cares, sharing is caring. – August 5, 2015
• A psychologist thinks it’ll be normal to have sex with robots – August 5, 2015
• The latest facial recognition technology works in the dark – August 2, 2015
• WHO: Trials show new Ebola vaccine is ‘highly effective’ – July 31, 2015
• Can a baby have three biological parents? – July 31, 2015
• Researchers design first artificial ribosome – July 29, 2015
• ‘What Do Machines Sing Of?’, A Robot That Endlessly Performs Hit Ballads From the 1990s While Adding Emotion – July 28, 2015
• Switzerland Begins Trials of Expensive Postal Drones – July 7, 2015
• Japan’s population is so old that elderly workers are getting robot exoskeletons so they never have to retire – July 7, 2015
• Bioengineers develop highly elastic biomaterial for better wound healing – July 2, 2015
• How to soar on Venus – July 2, 2015
• World’s first underground urban farm opens for business in London – June 30, 2015
• Africa Is Going To Be Polio-Free Soon – June 29, 2015
• Elon Musk’s SpaceX rocket explodes – June 28, 2015
• California Assembly passes mandatory vaccine bill – June 28, 2015
• 17 Legal Brain Enhancing Drugs That Will Expand Your Consciousness – June 27, 2015
• Paper-thin printed solar cells could provide power for 1.3 billion people – June 26, 2015
• DARPA: We Are Engineering the Organisms That Will Terraform Mars – June 25, 2015
• Google wants to bring free wifi to the world.… and it’s starting NOW – June 25, 2015
• 3 New Kinds of Battery That Just Might Change the World – June 24, 2015
• How facial recognition will change shopping in stores – June 23, 2015
• The ‘smart’ insulin patch that might one day replace injections for diabetic patients – June 23, 2015
• Brain–Brain Interface Allows Humans To Control Cockroaches With Their Minds – June 21, 2015
• Artificial Neural Networks Can Day Dream–Here’s What They See – June 18, 2015
• Drone 360 – June 16, 2015
• Never Sleep Again, Using This Drug – June 16, 2015
• A Smartphone App Turns a Land Rover Into a Giant RC Car – June 16, 2015
• Genetically Modifying Mosquitoes to Eliminate Disease – June 13, 2015
• DARPA Robots Can’t Stay Standing – June 13, 2015