In the future, robots will be the first to arrive in a disaster site. Today the progress we have made tells us the story of our future.
The story will go as following: earthquake happens, first thing that sifts through rubble is an army of mouse robots supported by robotic helicopters. There only mission: find survivors. [...]
If I were to ask you to form a dream team for building a robot that behaves like a human, how would you form your team? Would you pick scientists from different fields like : neuroscience, cognitive science, robotics, or would you rather want all your scientists to be from robotics field ?
Obviously, if you [...]
We all hoped that by now robots will be serving us in restaurants, hotels, etc. However, all we got is a robot that cleans our pool . Ignoring current market for Robots, recently there has been some interesting development in robotics: In previous article we discussed Boston Dynamic Big Dog robot that can be used [...]
September 5th, 2010 
Rafi In 2018, 4 million years from sun, in 2550 degrees Fahrenheit with random blasts of intense radiation, a car sized spacecraft made from carbon-composite heat shield will penetrate sun’s atmosphere. This will be NASA’s Solar Probe Plus mission that was announced just recently.
It will be yet another achievement for human space flight, providing us with better understanding of our sun.
September 3rd, 2010 Rafi Let me introduce you to time explorer. It is an interactive site that allows visualization of New York Times archives. It is developed by Yahoo’s Barcelona research lab. At first glance it seems an ordinary time line, but there is one unique feature to this: future exploration.
Yes it gives you the ability to explore future. It is not about making predictions, but instead it provides a way to visually see what news articles tell about future.
October 23rd, 2009 Rafi As today turn to tomorrow new technologies will enter our lives, inevitably, bringing with it new problems. Of course, this is an obvious fact, but how often do we think about mitigating this risk? Not often enough! Perhaps, it is time that we think about it more. Let’s start today then. Let’s ask the question: Is there a way to mitigate the risk of new technologies?
August 6th, 2009 Rafi What if we can touch and feel virtual 3D objects? Indeed, a new paradigm will be formed then. A paradigm that will catapult us to the next level of human computer interaction.
Get ready for that paradigm because touchable holograms are here. A research team from University of Tokyo is demonstrating a touchable holograph in siggraph2009.
August 5th, 2009 Rafi “Windows 7 is coming very soon!”
“Big deal, I am tired of Windows! What’s next? ”
“Crystal ball what is next?”
“Hmm! everything looks cloudy in there!”
“Aha! Clouds it is!”
Windows 7’s first RTM will be available on August 6. Although I am looking forward to it, especially because it fixes some of Vista’s problems, I am not too excited [...]
July 16th, 2009 Rafi In the future, robots will be the first to arrive in a disaster site. Today the progress we have made tells us the story of our future.
The story will go as following: earthquake happens, first thing that sifts through rubble is an army of mouse robots supported by robotic helicopters. There only mission: find survivors. [...]
July 5th, 2009 Rafi If I were to ask you to form a dream team for building a robot that behaves like a human, how would you form your team? Would you pick scientists from different fields like : neuroscience, cognitive science, robotics, or would you rather want all your scientists to be from robotics field ?
Obviously, if you [...]
June 27th, 2009 Rafi “I don’t know about you, but I think the way we interact with people over long distances have to change, especially for company meetings . It is indeed a big problem, trying to convey simple points across a phone line. This problem begs for solutions. Hence, we have products like Microsoft’s Live meeting, etc. They [...]
June 18th, 2009 Rafi I am sure by now everybody has seen the E3 demo of Microsoft’s Project Natal. After watching it several times and putting my jaws back together, I started asking myself: What good is Natal for non gamers (you know for those of us who considers gaming waste of time!)? Perhaps, not that good unless we [...]
June 14th, 2009 Rafi Sometimes it is not the technology that has the potential to change the world, but it rather the idea. One such ideas was recently implemented by engineering researchers at McMaster University. The idea is to build flexible solar panels that can be mounted on bus shelters.
They have created solar cells that bends with curved roof of [...]
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