The Energetically Autonomous Tactical Robot (EATR) is a vehicle that can forage for biomass to fuel itself. The researchers claim that the robots get their energy by foraging – engaging in biologically-inspired, organism-like, energy-harvesting behavior which is the equivalent of eating. Combustion is external so the engine is extremely fuel-flexible and can run on any fuel (solid, liquid, or gaseous), including:… Read more →
We are a generation of mouse clicking, texting, browsing, and constantly staring at TV, computer or phone screen Cybernauts, but will we be soon transformed into Cyborgs? Kevin Warwick, a Professor of Cybernetics at the University of Reading in Berkshire, UK, is convinced that it’s already happening. He is involved in research with artificial intelligence, robotics and cyborgs. He even wrote… Read more →
According to Georg Lichtenberg, a German scientist (1742 –1799), “knowledge is a tool, not a purpose.” People try to understand God, birth, death, eternity, reincarnation, spirit, and meaning of life, but these things are not open for understanding. “People know so little because they spend time on insignificant things such as how water becomes frozen, or a new theory of numbers,… Read more →
How do we perceive blind people? We usually imagine them confined in a pitch-black universe, but as Jorges Luis Borges writes, “the world of the blind is not the night that people imagine” (a lecture “Blindness” from “Everything and Nothing”). The blind people perceive the whole symphony of sounds and able to “see” with their ears and hands. The latest developments… Read more →
Ajit Kambildefines five stages in development of the online applications: Web 1.0 – The Basic Publishing and Transaction Medium;Web 2.0 – The Social and Co-created Web; Web 3.0 – The Semantic and Intelligent Web; Web 4.0 – The Mobile, Machine and Object Web, and Web 4.0 – the Sensory-Emotive Web. Today I would like to discuss the Sensory-Emotive Web which represents the… Read more →
Why are we praying or meditating? Why are we looking for spiritual teachers, gurus, and enlightened beings? Science tries to convince us that all our religious experiences are controlled by several areas of the brain that form the biological foundations of religious belief. Michael Persinger, a neuroscientist at Laurentian University in Canada created a “God helmet,” an experimental apparatus that… Read more →
