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The world’s first robot was made by the inventor Nikola Tesla in 1898. It was a remotely operated boat. The word “robot” was actually made up about 20 years after this robot was built. There was a machine that looked…
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This inventor’s guide to registering a patent in the United States reveals the basic details every inventor needs to know to protect her intellectual property. Patents 101 A patent is an agreement between an inventor and the government that encourages…
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With technology pushing the outer limits of our imagination to where these percieved notions are reality is actually feasible in some aspects..However, I look to the phsycologic view and imagine if we were entrapped by this fantasy of the mind…
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The more human something appears, the more we are attracted to it – until a point, that is. That point is known as the Uncanny Valley, and has been causing trouble for thinkers and dreamers alike before since before it…
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I was recently invited to a very secretive meeting by a software company that wants me “in” on the early stages of a new product: the legal lie detector. Now, they’re very careful to never call it a lie detector,…
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You have just invented the next multimillion dollar gadget. You worked hard perfecting the invention. The prototype is launched and everyone who has seen and used it, rave about it. You realize that you better patent it before someone steals your idea. You need to get a…
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When Professor Toshiyuki Nakagaki of the Future University Hakodate located in northern Japan observed a brainless slime mold navigate its way out of a maze, he realized the creature has an “intelligence” more sophisticated than the most powerful supercomputer. Mold’s…
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Theists often reference the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics as “proof” that “God” does in fact exist. The premise being, because the 2nd law deems order from chaos an impossibility, the only way life on Earth could’ve come about is by…
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It’s been noted that time is our most important asset. Countless hours are spent planning countless hours, days, weeks and months and all of these involve a calendar of some type. By simply powering up a computer or smartphone and…
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There are many different views of scientific theory, but perhaps one of the most popular is the realist view of scientific theory. Scientific realism is based on the belief that unobservable entities, such as gravity or electrons, are scarcely different…
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