Now
- A brain-scanner could be an instrument of explicit coercion
- Wearable device picks up neuromuscular signals saying words “in your head”
- From 3D Printing to Bioprinting and Precision Medicine
- An exoskeleton for athletes and older skiers
- MIT terminates collaboration with Nectome
- AR glasses further augmented by human assistants
Last Update: April 21, 2018
A New Mind
Artificial
Intelligence
- Wearable device picks up neuromuscular signals saying words “in your head”
- MIT terminates collaboration with Nectome
- MIT Intelligence Quest Launch Event Videos
- Nectome will preserve your brain, but you have to be euthanized first
- China accounted for 48 % of the world’s total AI startup funding in 2017, surpassing the US
- AI can predict a heart disease looking at eyes blood vessels with 70% accuracy
- MIT launches Intelligence Quest, an initiative to discover the foundations of human intelligence
- Ultimately we want a (neuromorphic) chip as big as a fingernail to replace one big (AI) supercomputer
- Undetectable mass social influence powered by artificial intelligence is an existential threat to humanity
- Self-doubting AI vs certain AI
- Man is to Computer Programmer as Woman is to Homemaker? Debiasing Word Embeddings
- What is consciousness, and could machines have it?
- AVA: A Video Dataset of Spatio-temporally Localized Atomic Visual Actions
- Mastering the game of Go without human knowledge
- Continuous Adaptation via Meta-Learning in Nonstationary and Competitive Environments
- “Be careful; things can be worse than they appear”: Understanding Biased Algorithms and Users’ Behavior around Them in Rating Platforms
- The hippocampus as a predictive map
- Why Does the Neocortex Have Columns, A Theory of Learning the Structure of the World
- PathNet: Evolution Channels Gradient Descent in Super Neural Networks
Research
On The Body
Augmented
Reality
- AR glasses further augmented by human assistants
- Eye Tracking For AR Devices?
- Why Augmented-Reality Glasses Are Ugly
- Police in China have begun using sunglasses equipped with facial recognition technology
- Our machines can very easily recognise you among at least 2 billion people in a matter of seconds
- AR glasses competition starts to get real
- Olympus EyeTrek is a $1,500 open-source, enterprise-focused smart glasses product
- BAE Systems working on eye tracking for military digital helmets
- AR glasses for surgical navigation reach 1.4mm accuracy
- Real-time people and object recognition for check-out at a retail shop
Bionic
Prosthetics
- What It’s Like Having to Charge Your Arm
- Improving brain-computer interfaces by decrypting neural patterns
- UK company pioneers tissue engineering with 3D bioprinters
- Tomorrow’s replacement skin could be 3D printed from a new ink embedded with living bacteria
- Limb reanimation through neuroscience and machine learning
- A deeper look into Kernel’s plan to create a brain prosthetic
- An implant to control the movements of a bionic hand and to communicate with his wife
- The first detailed neuroimaging investigation in patients with bionic limbs
- Bionic Prosthetics 101
- The Market for Bionic Prosthetics
- Upper limb cortical maps in amputees with targeted muscle and sensory reinnervation
- 149 research papers on brain augmentation
- Cardiac tissue engineering: from matrix design to the engineering of bionic hearts
- High-Performance Piezoresistive Electronic Skin with Bionic Hierarchical Microstructure and Microcracks
Research
Wearable
Technology
- A brain-scanner could be an instrument of explicit coercion
- Wearable device picks up neuromuscular signals saying words “in your head”
- An exoskeleton for athletes and older skiers
- Smart glasses designed to help dyslexic people to read words
- Self-healing and recyclable electronic skin
- Smart diapers for the elderly – when smart monitoring is too much monitoring?
- Ford testing exoskeletons for workers in final assembly plant
- Tomorrow’s replacement skin could be 3D printed from a new ink embedded with living bacteria
- Neurable has been working on developing brain-control systems for VR for over a year
- We don’t understand yet the brain coding for force
- A Textile Dressing for Temporal and Dosage Controlled Drug Delivery
- Inflammation-free, gas-permeable, lightweight, stretchable on-skin electronics with nanomeshes
Research
Inside The Body
Biohacking
- From 3D Printing to Bioprinting and Precision Medicine
- A biohacker injected himself with a DIY herpes treatment in front of a conference audience
- “There are people alive today who will live for 1,000 years”
- Infusions of blood plasma from young donors to rejuvenate the body
- It might be possible to treat diseases by giving aging tissues a signal to clean house
- A drink made of pure Ketone could boost the body more than carbs, fat and protein
- An implant to control the movements of a bionic hand and to communicate with his wife
- Gene therapy is “underrated” as a way to conquer old age
- There’s no scientific proof that today’s drugs can boost intelligence
- Biohacker Attempts Editing His DNA With CRISPR
- Nutritional Ketosis Alters Fuel Preference and Thereby Endurance Performance in Athletes
- Multi-functional Flexible Aqueous Sodium-Ion Batteries with High Safety
- Bioresorbable silicon electronic sensors for the brain
- 149 research papers on brain augmentation
Research
Genetic
Engineering
- CRISPR pioneers now use it to detect infections like HPV, dengue, and Zika
- Sequence your genome for less than $1,000 and sell it via blockchain
- A biohacker injected himself with a DIY herpes treatment in front of a conference audience
- CRISPR might be employed to destroy entire species
- “We have entered the age where the human genome is a real drug target” – CRISPR stopped mice from going deaf
- DARPA has become the world’s largest funder of “gene drive” research
- Defeating cancer costs $500,000
- CRISPR can be repurposed to enable target gene activation
- Google open source tool DeepVariant achieves unprecedented accuracy in human genome sequencing
- Sangamo Therapeutics attempts to edit a gene inside the body for the first time
- In Vivo Target Gene Activation via CRISPR/Cas9-Mediated Trans-epigenetic Modulation
- Cancer incidence increasing globally: The role of relaxed natural selection
- Development of an Intrinsic Skin Sensor for Blood Glucose Level with CRISPR-mediated Genome Editing in Epidermal Stem Cells
- RNA targeting with CRISPR–Cas13
- Elimination of Toxic Microsatellite Repeat Expansion RNA by RNA-Targeting Cas9
- Genome editing reveals a role for OCT4 in human embryogenesis
- U.S. attitudes on human genome editing
- Correction of a pathogenic gene mutation in human embryos
- Comparing sequencing assays and human-machine analyses in actionable genomics for glioblastoma
- The Slippery Slope Argument in the Ethical Debate on Genetic Engineering of Humans
Research
Nanorobotics
- Nanorobots have potential as intelligent drug delivery systems
- Nanochannelled device could “regrown” damaged organs with a single touch
- Scientists have developed nanomachines that can drill into cancer cells and kill them within minutes
- Researchers Find A Way To Move Tiny, Foldable Robots Without Batteries
- Ray Kurzweil on augmenting the human brain through AI, nanorobotics and cloud computing
- Nanoswimmers target brain tumors and deliver anticancer drugs to them
- What Does Nanotechnology Actually Mean?
- Nanorobotic agents can navigate through the bloodstream to administer a drug
- Topical tissue nano-transfection mediates non-viral stroma reprogramming and rescue
- Molecular machines open cell membranes
Research
The Big Picture
Transhumanism*
- The US Air Force has a division dedicated to human performance enhancement
- Cancer treatment is a ‘double-edged sword’ by allowing survivors to pass on their tumour-causing genes
- Levandowski founds a religion
- What does it mean to be a human?
- Fernand Léger and the Rise of the Man-Machine
- The Social Pressure To Become Transhuman
- Are You Living in a Simulation?
- The Spiritual Side of Transhumanism