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brave new worldBrave New WorldThe future of technology.3NA=1154&NC=1279&DI=4098&PS=58542&PI=7315bravefalsefalsespacernotembeddedbrave new worldAttack of the Soccer RobotsSam SchechnerWhen will androids beat us at sports?noAttack of the Soccer RobotsWhen will androids beat us at sports?noIt's spring training at Carnegie Mellon's MultiRobot Lab. On a 6-by-4-meter, green-felt field, little robot dogs run through drills: shooting, passing, goaltending. Every Wednesday, the Sony AIBOs line up for a full scrimmage, their heads swiveling to find the ball and their rumps pointed to the sky. It's last week's code against this week's code—may the best robots win.truenotochyperlinkno20054444622PMMondayAprApril164/4/2005 8:46:22 PM63248229982000000020054444622PMMondayAprApril164/4/2005 8:46:22 PM632482299820000000brave new worldMethuselah Mouse ManPaul BoutinAubrey de Grey is helping humans live forever, whether or not he's a real biologist.noMethuselah Mouse ManAubrey de Grey is helping humans live forever.noIf a tall, gaunt man with a ruddy 2-foot beard were to loom over you in a bar and claim he was a scientist who could help you live forever, you'd probably check his breath. Aubrey de Grey has that effect on people. But he also has the effect of reanimating the largely ignored science of why we die.truenotochyperlinkno200531873002AMFridayMarMarch73/18/2005 12:30:02 PM632467278020000000200531873002AMFridayMarMarch73/18/2005 12:30:02 PM632467278020000000brave new worldHow To Talk When You Can't SpeakClive ThompsonCommunicating with unconscious minds.noHow To Talk When You Can't SpeakCommunicating with unconscious minds.noThis week, Neurology published an unsettling study of two brain-damaged men who are "minimally conscious"—able to breathe on their own but otherwise generally unresponsive. When neuroscientists scanned the patients' brains as they played audiotapes of loved ones, the activity was strikingly normal. The visual cortex of one of the men even lit up in a way that suggested he was visualizing the stories that his relatives told. One of the researchers told the New York Times that they've repeated the experiment on seven more patients and found the same results.truenotochyperlinkno200521063317PMThursdayFebFebruary182/10/2005 11:33:17 PM632436571970000000200521063317PMThursdayFebFebruary182/10/2005 11:33:17 PM632436571970000000brave new worldSafe?Safe?New tricks for finding terrorists.Martha Baer0A terrorist watch list even privacy nuts will love.How will the technologies of the future help protect us against terrorism? The new book Safe: The Race To Protect Ourselves in a Newly Dangerous World examines innovative techniques for sniffing out attacks before they happen and for limiting damage if a strike does occur. In today's excerpt, in the last of a three-part series, Martha Baer, Katrina Heron, Oliver Morton, and Evan Ratliff consider a new technology that allows the government to root through citizens' private data without behaving like a police state. Tuesday's excerpt explained how to recognize potential terrorists with facial heat sensors and automated video cameras. Yesterday's selection looked at a computer chip that could be the best weapon against bioterrorism.nonotruenonotochyperlinkno20052123225PMTuesdayFebFebruary142/1/2005 7:32:25 PM632428651450000000200523122252PMThursdayFebFebruary122/3/2005 5:22:52 PM632430301720000000brave new worldO Hologram, Where Art Thou?Paul BoutinWhy holograms look so cool in the movies—and so lame in real life.noO Hologram, Where Art Thou?Why holograms look so lame.noEver since I saw a 1-foot-high holographic Carrie Fisher plead, "Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi," I've been waiting for a 3-D video player to call my own. I'm not talking about fake, View-Master-style 3-D that lets you look at an image from only one angle—you can already get that on a $3,000 laptop. That "360-degree hologram phone" you read about last week? It's not even a real hologram, just a stereoscope that's 3-D from left to right, not up and down. Impressive? Sure. A video hologram that lets you check out your subject from front to back and top to bottom? Not even close. And why would anyone want to call me on my hologram phone if they can't stand on their tiptoes and check out my bald spot?truenotochyperlinkno200412270722PMThursdayDecDecember1912/3/2004 12:07:22 AM632376112420000000200412271347PMThursdayDecDecember1912/3/2004 12:13:47 AM632376116270000000200311442742PMTuesdayJanJanuary161/14/2003 9:27:42 PM631781584620000000200311442742PMTuesdayJanJanuary161/14/2003 9:27:42 PM631781584620000000falsetruetruetruetruetruetrue20011018111443PMThursdayOctOctober2310/19/2001 3:14:43 AM631390436830000000200181561720PMWednesdayAugAugust188/15/2001 10:17:20 PM631334962400000000