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Inhabitat & TAMING TYPHOONS: Incredible Storm Water System in Japan: 12:02pm 47 reviews science, japan, technology
http://www.inhabitat.com/2008/07/17/new-submission-33/

The bionic eye: Light-curving camera that may help the blind to see | Mail Onlin…: 7:42am 6 reviews medical-science, technology
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1042256/The-bionic-eye-Light-c...

Rescue Dragon - TheRobot-Blog.com: Aug 6, 4:45pm 8 reviews science, bizarre, technology
http://therobot-blog.com/2008/rescue-dragon/; "Danger! Danger! Will Robinson...."

Luxuo : The ultimate Luxury Blog: LED dress - electronic fashion: Aug 6, 8:42am 3 reviews beauty, fashion, arts, technology
http://www.luxuo.com/2008/08/led-dress-electronic-fashion.html; innovative & beautiful use of LED in fashion.

http://www.redicecreations.com/article.php?id=4396: Aug 2, 8:56am 21 reviews futurism, technology, transhuminism
http://www.redicecreations.com/article.php?id=4396; Good luck w/that all you mad scientists out there. Just what we don't need............................ "A group of experts from around the world will hold a first of its kind conference Thursday on global catastrophic risks. They will discuss what should be done to prevent these risks from becoming realities that could lead to the end of human life on Earth as we know it. Speakers at the four-day event at Oxford University in Britain will talk about topics including nuclear terrorism and what to do if a large asteroid were to be on a collision course with our planet. On the final day of the Global Catastrophic Risk Conference, experts will focus on what could be the unintended consequences of new technologies, such as superintelligent machines that, if ill-conceived, might cause the demise of Homo sapiens. "Any entity which is radically smarter than human beings would also be very powerful," said Dr. Nick Bostrom, director of Oxford's Future of Humanity Institute, host of the symposium. "If we get something wrong, you could imagine the consequences would involve the extinction of the human species." Bostrom is a philosopher and a leading thinker of transhumanism, a movement that advocates not only the study of the potential threats and promises that future technologies could pose to human life but also the ways in which emergent technologies could be used to make the very act of living better. "We want to preserve the best of what it is to be human and maybe even amplify that," Bostrom said. Transhumanists, according to Bostrom, anticipate an era in which biotechnology, molecular nanotechnologies, artificial intelligence and other new types of cognitive tools will be used to amplify our intellectual capacity, improve our physical capabilities and even enhance our emotional well-being. The end result would be a new form of "posthuman" life with beings that possess qualities and skills so exceedingly advanced they no longer can be classified simply as humans." Oh goody! :P