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Mazda Receives Japan's First Human Rights Merit Award

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2008-02-25 09:09:51 by HASH0x8c95de4 in Fareastgizmos.com
...Human Rights Merit Award by Japans Ministry of Justice and the National Federation of Consultative Assemblies of Civil Liberties Commissioners. The award was established in fiscal year (FY) 2006 to recognize significant achievements in the field of human rights protection by an individual or an organization. The award was handed out for the...
 
Tags: human rights, human rights committee, respect, respect human rights, human rights protection, human rights philosophy, philosophy, mazda, human rights symposiums
 
 
 
 
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Scientists Reprogram Human Skin Cells into Embryonic Stem Cells

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2008-02-12 19:07:42 by Michael in Medgadget
...human skin cells into a state that is very similar to the one that embryonic stem cells exist in. In their paper, published in the latest early online edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of the Sciences , the scientists confirm the work of researchers Shinya Yamanaka at Kyoto University and James Thomson at the University of...
 
Tags: stem cells, embryonic stem cells, cells, adult stem cells, develop stem cells, human ips cells, ips cells, pluripotent stem cells, beta islet cells
 
 
 
 
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University Students Design Innovative MINDSTORMS NXT Robot for the Human-Robot Interaction Conference

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2008-04-13 08:00:00 by LEGO Mindstorms - Whats New in Robotic-Lab.COM
...Human-Robot Interaction Conference (HRI) in Amsterdam. HRI is an annual conference that seeks to showcase the very best in human-robot interaction. This year's theme was "Living With Robots One highlight of the conference was an international design competition for university students. Students were given one MINDSTORMS NXT set and a CODATEX...
 
Tags: robot, human-robot interaction conference, larger robot, robot overcomes, overcomes, human-robot interaction, flower robot, conference, university students
 
 
 
 
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MIT's NEXI an advanced human like Robot

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2008-04-06 08:38:25 by HASH0x8bae22c in Newlaunches.com
...humans could communicate with a robot on a social level has been thrust upon us repeatedly. How such a scientific breakthrough is to occur is hard to imagine since most of the technology we see today is software based. MIT's NEXI body is set to change that perception; NEXI body has human-like expressions and also speech. The product of the...
 
Tags: nexi, robot, mit, human, nexi body, mit team, expressive robot, features expressive eyebrows, features
 
 
 
 
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Human Car: Would You Drive it?

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2008-01-31 16:01:57 by geeksugar in geeksugar -- Geek is chic.
...human powered gem has you rowing your way to a greener earth . But instead of messing up your pedi, a la Wilma Flinstone, your upper body is what gets you moving However, other differences between this human-powered car and the Flinstone's hot rod are pretty futuristic. A standard electric/human-powered hybrid motor (recharged by you, of...
 
Tags: car, human car, human, earth, earth day, drive, imagine lmv, ipod adapter, wilma flinstone
 
 
 
 
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Robots planted in human brains to make them more intelligent by 2029: Is this madness?

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2008-02-18 08:15:52 by Mark in Product Reviews NetGadgets & Technology
...humans, machines will in fact have achieved human level artificial intelligence. This means by at least 2029 we may see tiny robots implanted in people brains which in return will make them more intelligent Ok so human-machine intelligence parity is going to be in full force by 2029, surely this is a dangerous thing to play with, and how do...
 
Tags: robots, tiny robots, armed war robots, intelligent, machines, intelligent machines, intelligence, human-machine intelligence parity, replace human care
 
 
 
 
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iPoint Presenter Promises a New Human-Computer Mode of Communication

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2008-03-03 14:24:11 by Michael in Medgadget
...human-computer cummunication is entirely contact-free. The system is therefore ideal for scenarios in which contact between the user and the computer is not allowed or not possible, for example in an operating theater, says Chojecki. The system would also be ideal for presentations in large auditoriums. The speaker would no longer need a...
 
Tags: people, gestures enable people, computer, gestures, record visitors gestures, interpret human gestures, computer reacts, computer simulation, ipoint presenter
 
 
 
 
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Confirmed: Human Placenta Not a Nutritional Supplement

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2008-04-15 10:14:27 by Bryan Gardiner in Gadget Lab
...Human placentas are not nutritional supplements. That ruling is bound to upset Danny, as well as Herbal Science International, a Japanese company who must now recall a number of its dietary supplements that contain ephedrine alkaloids , aristolochic acid (a rodent carcinogen) and human placenta Says the FDA: Finally, the company is recalling...
 
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Utilizing Evolutionary Mechanisms of Human-Bacterial Symbiosis

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2008-05-28 18:32:11 by Michael in Medgadget
...human body. What they found might have implications for the development of therapeutic strategies to deal with a range of disorders, including autoimmune diseases, and, possibly, cancer: A naturally occurring molecule made by symbiotic gut bacteria may offer a new type of treatment for inflammatory bowel disease, according to scientists at...
 
Tags: acute disease, disease, disease results, inflammatory bowel disease, beneficial bacteria, beneficial, symbiotic gut bacteria, bacteria, gut