What: Automotive X Prize Who: Eric Boyd Where: TBD When: Friday April 10 6:30-8:30pm Please RSVP for the April Future Salon hosted at the home of Gilda & Mike....
Robot scientists can think for themselves ... LONDON (Reuters) - Two teams of researchers said on Thursday they had created machines that could reason,...
Overview An X PRIZE is a $10 million+ award given to the first team to achieve a specific goal, set by the X PRIZE Foundation, which has the potential to ...
April 3, 2009 Heart Muscle Renewed Over Lifetime, Study Finds By NICHOLAS WADE <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/w/nicholas_w\ ...
Do you have old computers, computer monitors, printers, laptops, etc that are obsolete? Are they in your garage collecting dust? Do you know old batteries...
2030s: disease-free life, thought-talking, intelligent robots By Dick Pelletier Imagine living in a body fashioned from "designer cells" that can never age or...
This Friday: April 10, 2009 is the regular Future Salon Meeting: What: What the Automotive X Prize means to us Who: Eric Boyd Where: The Home of Michael Gilda...
Stem cell therapies promise healthcare revolution in next decade By Dick Pelletier The surge of innovation that has given the world everything from iPods and...
How do you incentivize advances in automotive technology? One way is to offer a $10Million X-Prize. The Progessive Insurance Automotive X-Prize will encourage...
Fascinating article… if, for no other reason, its examination of ‘future’ technology that really is not so future after all. David  Terminator Planet ...
Driverless cars everywhere by 2020, pilotless air-cars in skies by 2030 By Dick Pelletier In the sci-fi movie Minority Report cars drive themselves while...
The Future of Health – `Human Body version 3.0' Ageless, forever-healthy bodies that can change shape and color on our command By Dick Pelletier Imagine...
Hi Gilda: Thanks much for the meeting, very nice. This may be of interest in light of the "NoLie MRI" and other imaging devices that can see what's happening...
Voice-enabled ID chips promise more efficient life, by Dick Pelletier You enter the supermarket, grab an electronic cart that recognizes you from your touch,...
The Las Vegas Future Salon thanks Eric Boyd for giving us the latest scoop on the Progressive Insurance Automotive X-prize. His passion "drives" him to spend...
The 2040s: Artificial Intelligence transforms humanity By Dick Pelletier After being spoiled during the 2030s with disease-free bodies, thought-talking, and...
PG&E makes deal for space solar power Utility to buy orbit-generated electricity from Solaren in 2016, at no risk By Alan Boyle Science editor updated 7:41...
PG&E wants to put solar cells above the clouds, where they don't need to worry about anything blocking their view of the sun. Solar power captured in space,...
Memories of the past - Focus on the future Opinion by Dick Pelletier Growing up in the 1930s provided me with a unique prospective for enjoying today's life...
With the power to transform into any tissue, stem cells hold great promise for the future of medicine. Scientists hope someday to be able to transplant stem...
T cells are the linchpins of the human immune system. They nab cells gone bad due to infection or cancer, can rekindle the fight against familiar pathogens,...
Are we organisms or living ecosystems? This fascinating piece focuses on the relationship between us and our microbes. With last year's NIH start of the Human...
Artificial brains will create smarter robots, enhanced humans By Dick Pelletier Spanish researchers at University of Granada have achieved a giant leap for...
Regards,  Ray  Jewish legacy inscribed on genes? Ashkenazi Jews have a higher rate of some deadly genetic diseases -- and of high IQs. Scientists Gregory...
Tomorrow's household robots will become amazingly intelligent By Dick Pelletier For years, entrepreneurs have been trying to create robots to perform life's...
2050s & beyond: new energies, parallel universes, faster-than-light travel By Dick Pelletier What might life be like in the 2050s and beyond? Futurists and...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Researchers who have trained a tiny virus to do their bidding said on Thursday they made it build a more efficient and powerful lithium...