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What Is I.B.M.’s Watson?

For the last three years, I.B.M. scientists have been developing what they expect will be the world’s most advanced “question answering” machine, able to understand a question posed in everyday human elocution — “natural language,” as computer scientists call it — and respond with a precise, factual answer.

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intrinsi on June 19th 2010 in Artificial Intelligence, Hardware

Infectable RFID Chips

RFID chip implanted into man gets computer virus

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intrinsi on May 26th 2010 in Biology, Hardware, Robotics, Ubiquitous Computing

Sensors Everywhere

Printable sensors

In the future every home will have one: electronic devices that you can control just by pointing a finger. To turn this vision into reality the 3Plast research consortium is developing special sensors that can be printed onto plastic film and affixed to objects.

I envision a near future, say 5 to 10 years, in which all objects of any value whatsoever will have sensors attached or embedded and where all such objects will communicate with one another instantaneously.

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intrinsi on March 23rd 2010 in Hardware, Nanotechnology, Ubiquitous Computing