CNN’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta shows you the latest in prosthetic technology: bionic hands controlled from an iPhone app. (from YouTube)
I’ll be home for Christmas Henry has Alzheimer’s and lives in a nursing home, and is mostly unresponsive and depressed, but watch what happens when he’s introduced to music. The part of the brain that recognizes music…
A rare byline article by Frank Holman, with editorial comment at the end The world of technology has changed beyond description in the previous decade. Consider the start of the year 2009. You grew up before…
By Janet Rae-Dupree, republished from Kaiser Health News with my comments Now that it’s upending the way you play music, cook, shop, hear the news and check the weather, the friendly voice emanating from your Amazon Alexa-enabled smart…
Failing the Third Machine Age: When [Caregiver] Robots Come for Grandma is a long and thought-provoking article by Zeynep Tufekci, published in 2014. It builds a case against “caregiver robots,” arguing that they are both inhumane…
Wearable Technology Market to Exceed $6 Billion by 2016 Northampton, 08 August 2012 – Increasing demand for actionable, real-time data in a range of applications is driving strong demand for wearable technology. 14 million wearable devices…
By Dr. Martin Kohn, Chief Medical Scientist for IBM Research Two years ago, IBM’s Watson computer shocked the world when it beat two past grand champions on the TV quiz show Jeopardy! Watson isn’t playing around…
