Robot Apocalypse, Dorky Headsets, Mechanical Hands, and Super Spiders

How to Survive a Robot Apocalypse: Just Close the Door

Robots may enslave us all someday. In the meantime, if one of them goes berserk, here’s a useful tactic: Shut the door behind you.

But then again, some progress has been made since 2015.  

The Inevitability Of Augmented Reality HMDs

We are constantly shifting between the world in our hands and the physical world. Tens of thousands of people die every year because of this incredibly bad form factor, and the need to change it is urgent.

Spider drinks graphene, spins web that can hold the weight of a human

For the study, Nicola Pugno and team at the University of Trento in Italy added graphene and carbon nanotubes to a spider's drinking water. The materials were naturally incorporated into the spider's silk, producing webbing that is five times stronger than normal. That puts it on par with pure carbon fibers in strength, as well as with Kevlar, the material bulletproof vests are made from.

High-tech neuroprosthetic ‘Luke’ arm lets amputee touch and feel again

“When I went to grab something, I could feel myself grabbing it. When I thought about moving this or that finger, it would move almost right away,” Keven Walgamott said. “I don’t know how to describe it except that it was like I had a hand again.”

Plus -- was it an alien spacecraft? (Timothy Gordon says yes!)
 

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