One of the newest tools, that not only the multinational car companies but also companies like Google and Apple are assumed to work on, is the introduction of the self-driving car. Telsa has recently introduced a Tesla car with...
By Michel Blonk
on 09/19/16 Comments Off on Tesla’s Autopilot Function in the Light of Liability and Assistance
In August 2012, the company Oculus VR set up a Kickstarter project to encourage the development of a revolutionary technological device, capable of plunging users into an immersive virtual reality. The Kickstarter rose to see $2.4M invested by 9’500...
By Alexander Guian-Illanes
on 09/15/15 Comments Off on Oculus Rift: the next big leap towards virtual reality
Researches have recently published an article where they have done an experiment with some kind of technological telepathy. A man in India wearing a BCI (Brain-Computer Interface), has successfully transmitted different kind of words through thoughts to a man’s...
By Chaïm Wijnberg
on 09/18/14 Comments Off on The posthuman cyborg: Technological telepathy
This year has been exceptionally fruitful for the fans of wearable technology. Last week, we were introduced to a new child of the wearable technology era: the Apple Watch. On September 9, Apple revealed its own long-anticipated smartwatch –...
By Polina Boykova
on 09/16/14 Comments Off on Is it cyborg o’clock yet?
While this week’s tech-press has devoted much space to the launch of yet another better, bigger and more amazing set of consumer electronics, it was a seemingly unexciting object with the looks of a humble notebook-charger passing by the...
By Sebastian Bertoli
on 09/15/14 Comments Off on Unplugging the cyborgs
Introduction On the 9th of September, 2014, Apple organised their iPhone Event, in which they not only introduced the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 plus, but also the Apple Watch. This is Apple’s version of the latest trend...
By David de Bie
on 09/15/14 Comments Off on Smartwatches: a step closer towards the Cyborg?
The effects of new digital means of translation are starting to affect the way we interact with the world. If everyone can understand every foreign language with the use of new technology, how can those changes be understood and...
Since the Internet’s first foray the world has changed drastically. As John L. Friedman explained in his book «The World is Flat» in 2006, the Internet has globalized the world in ways we could not imagine, because people now...