Feel Like a Barbie, Be Like a Barbie
We have seen some pretty crazy obsessions before. People have gone out of their way to fulfill their ambitions to look like their favorite stars. One of the most common ones out there seems to be for Barbie dolls. More...
UniSols
There is good and bad use of all computer related technologies. A GOOD USE is artificial limbs for instance that can be run by the brain. The bad use is artificial killing machines coupled with human bodies. And More...
Lana Del Rey Living Doll
In a very short period of time, an enigmatic singer named Lana Del Rey went from complete anonymity to the front page of magazines, not to mention intense internet buzz and an SNL appearance. But along with this More...
Cyber Rats
Scientists in Israel have just installed a cybernetic brain into a rat. This was all done externally and the rat’s cerebellum was not harmed, only disabled through the use of electrodes. The “brain” More...
The Blade Runner
In his excellent article “When will we be transhuman? Seven conditions for attaining transhumanism” Kyle Munkittrick formulates seven indicators to benchmark if or when Transhumanism has arrived as part More...
This is your Meal
Intelligent vending machines are just one of the raw signs that we’re storming towards an either utopian of dystopian technocracy. Machines that make use of facial recognition to suggest what to drink or whether More...
The Day After
There’s a crowd arguing that today’s society is too much dependant on technology. That humanity enhanced with technology has nothing to do with evolution, or natural progress but all with extensive consumerism More...
The Internet as an Extension of Our Brain
According to a study done by Science Magazine reliable and constant access to online information is affecting how we use our memory. Instead of remembering facts ourselves we remember where we can find those facts. This More...
The Matrix Reality
It seems the sci-fi industry has done it again. Predictions made in novels like Johnny Mnemonic and Neuromancer back in the 1980s of neural implants linking our brains to machines have become a reality. Back then More...
What You Did Not Know About Carrots
It’s always smart – and telling – to focus on artists and designer’s visions on the ways humankind has displaced, manipulated or designed nature and how this affects and modifies our concept of ‘nature’. More...
Living Human Laser
Ever imagined firing laser beams from your body? Well, if you did, your imagination may come to life soon. Some Dr. Evil’s from Harvard have merged light-emitting proteins from jellyfish with a single human cell More...
We’re all Computers
The question of whether it is possible for machines to think has a long history, which is firmly entrenched in the distinction between dualist and materialist views of the mind. From the perspective of dualism, More...