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Scientists are reading minds using brain imaging techniques.

Adam Curtis's new series about how computers have not liberated us but distorted and simplified our view of the world around us. What do you think?

A micro-controlled device that stimulates correct hand postions for enhanced musical performance.

What would be the ideal ‘personality’ for a robotic vacuum cleaner? Via  Presurfer

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Episode One of Season Ten

A functional walking machine from 1969 who's only real flaw was that it's human operator would be exhausted trying to remember what leg was next in the sequence in about 15 minutes.

Australian researchers are teaching a pair of robots to communicate linguistically like humans by inventing new spoken words, a lexicon that the roboticists can teach to other robots to generate an entirely new language.

Researchers from Texas A&M University have created an inexpensive multi touch system made of infrared sensors that allows the user to draw and manipulate images in mid-air. It's called "ZeroTouch," and it allows for "zero-force, zero-thickness, completely transparent multi-touch sensing." While others strive to make thinner and more elegant touch-screens, are they missing the point? Is the future of touch surfaceless?

Computer immediately takes responsibility for a terrorist plot.

In the end, the word "Cloud" is an apt metaphor for what we're dealing with -- after all, Clouds move and dissipate with changes in the atmosphere.