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May 30, 2016
Media mogul Dmitry Itskov plans to live forever
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: internet, life extension, robotics/AI
Money can buy you immortality, according to the Russian internet multi-millionaire who is ploughing a fortune into a project to create a human that never dies.
May 30, 2016
The Queen of the Social Sciences is Dying — By Graeme Maxton | The Club of Rome
Posted by Odette Bohr Dienel in category: economics
“The era of modern economics is thankfully waning and it is time for us all to look ahead, to discover something better.”
May 30, 2016
Bionic Power — Wearable technology for charging batteries
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: cyborgs, energy, military, transhumanism, wearables
Bionic Power makes wearable technology for charging batteries. Today, we are focused on developing our PowerWalk® Kinetic Energy Harvester for military use and will begin multi-unit field trials with the U.S. Army and U.S. Marine Corps next year. In the future, we see our walk-recharge technology being used in disaster zones and remote worksites, and by consumers in recreational, emergency preparedness and backup applications.
May 30, 2016
Fast, stretchy circuits could yield new wave of wearable electronics
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: computing, electronics, internet, media & arts, wearables
The consumer marketplace is flooded with a lively assortment of smart wearable electronics that do everything from monitor vital signs, fitness or sun exposure to play music, charge other electronics or even purify the air around you — all wirelessly.
Now, a team of University of Wisconsin—Madison engineers has created the world’s fastest stretchable, wearable integrated circuits, an advance that could drive the Internet of Things and a much more connected, high-speed wireless world.
Led by Zhenqiang “Jack” Ma, the Lynn H. Matthias Professor in Engineering and Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor in electrical and computer engineering at UW–Madison, the researchers published details of these powerful, highly efficient integrated circuits today, May 27, 2016, in the journal Advanced Functional Materials.
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A device the size of a matchstick, implanted next to the brain’s motor cortex, could one day help paralysed people move their limbs.
May 30, 2016
The Sad Tragic Truth About Our Relationships
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: life extension
The Search For Immortality … https://www.facebook.com/jasonlsilva/videos/1627219640875648/
What do we do when we know everything — including our love for one another — will pass?
A drone that can fly AND go underwater https://www.facebook.com//videos/572388199607050/
A drone that can fly AND go underwater?
Yes, please.
May 29, 2016
Crowdfunding Senescent Cell Clearance Therapies
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: biotech/medical, finance, life extension
The race is on to develop the first senescent cell clearance therapies (a.k.a., “senolytics”) to reverse the aging process and treat age-related diseases.
May 29, 2016
Bottle that always pours out all the ketchup
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: futurism
MIT scientists invented a coating that makes sure all the ketchup comes out of the bottle.