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CNet profiles MaRS client, Aeryon's flying robot technology, describing their potential markets. Aeryon presented at the AlwaysOn Stanford Summit last week.

Raymond Hui, a principal investigator with the University of Toronto's Structural Genomics Consortium, has transformed himself from a robotics engineer to a genetic engineer and now searches for cures for some of the world's most devastating diseases.

The "singularity"--in which technological change becomes so rapid and so profound that our bodies and brains will merge with our machines.\n The Singularity Is Near portrays what life will be like after this event--a human-machine civilization where our experiences shift from real reality to virtual reality and where our intelligence becomes nonbiological and trillions of times more powerful than unaided human intelligence. In practical terms, this means that human aging and pollution will be reversed, world hunger will be solved and our bodies and environment transformed by nanotechnology to overcome the limitations of biology, including death. We will be able to create virtually any physical product just from information, resulting in radical wealth creation. In addition to outlining these fantastic changes, Kurzweil also considers their social and philosophical ramifications.