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Robot Will Do Interpretive Dance Based on Your Dreams
Technology has finally reached its zenith, and now we can all pack up and go home. After all, where can you go after someone has created a robot that performs interpretative dance routines based upon your dreams? Yes, you read that right: Someone has created a robot that will recreate your sleep experiences in its own form of interpretative dance. How could you not want to find out what the hell that's about? More »
sleep dealer
Cyber-Zombies Haunt A Near-Future Dystopia
Do you wish the zombies in I Am Legend had been more interesting and believable? Then you should be excited for near-future dystopia Sleep Dealer, judging from this brief teaser trailer and some new stills. Sleep Dealer is a bleak fable about immigration and cyber-slavery, but it's also yet another horrible future where science turns ordinary people into the walking (almost) dead. Click through for stills and details. More »
mad science
Tinkering with the Sleep Gene
Why do our brains need sleep? And can we switch off the genes that make sleep necessary? Medical researchers at the University of Pennsylvania say that they've located a gene that regulates sleep, and if they can switch it on and off it's possible that you'll be able to take a pill to eliminate your desire to snooze. Unfortunately, the researchers' work also shows that doing this might drive you insane or reduce your mental abilities dramatically. More »
Hack Your Internal Sleep Clock Until You Become An Android
Wired's latest magazine has a sideblurb-o-graphic about how to get by on only two hours of sleep a day, and here's a longer article about polyphasic sleep (as its called, who knew?) that breaks it down a bit further. Basically it is dangerous, could cause physical and social side effects, and will turn you into a fully functional automaton that runs on extremely short naps all day. Sign us up.
Wired's latest magazine has a sideblurb-o-graphic about how to get by on only two hours of sleep a day, and here's a longer article about polyphasic sleep (as its called, who knew?) that breaks it down a bit further. Basically it is dangerous, could cause physical and social side effects, and will turn you into a fully functional automaton that runs on extremely short naps all day. Sign us up.
