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- Robo-furniture eats household pests
- Robotic furniture that eat vermin, like mice and flies, are a part of a design project at the Royal College of Art, London. Designer James Auger is exploring a new breed of domestic robots that he says can sit comfortably at an intersection of products and...
- Tags: Robo-furniture, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Chris Jablonski
- Blog posts 2009-06-27
- Banning Scientology doesn't make Wikipedia more credible
- Banning Scientology doesn't make Wikipedia more credibleSorry Chris... an effort to do something is better than no effort. ntntNo, but it sure makes the Thetans angry.]:)Scientology - shrugIt's better to keep 'm exposed as warped 'personality-tests' doing whackos.RE: Banning Scientology doesn't make Wikipedia more credibleChris, I agree with...
- Tags: Wiki, Scientology, Wikipedia, Banning Scientology
- Discussion threads 2009-05-29
- Advances in TREKnology
- Advances in TREKnologyI can think of three . . .right off the top of my head:1) The high-speed sliding doors at every mall, store, emergency room, etc, you go to today, came about as a direct result of the inventor seeing it on Star Trek, and wanted to duplicate...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Robots, Corporate communications, Geordi, computer, Kirk
- Discussion threads 2009-05-08
- News to know: Microsoft; Oracle patches; Google; HP; Facebook; Win 7 systems ;
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft makes it official: Forefront reaches the cloud Ryan Naraine: Microsoft tackles patch management metrics with Project Quant Oracle...
- Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Hewlett-Packard Co., Oracle Corp., Patch Management, Microsoft Corp., Twitter, Data Centers, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Taxes, Patches, Free Trade, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Financial Planning, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-04-16
- The "Me Too" Kindle 2 Review
- Amazon's Kindle 2 is sleek, stylish, and has a crisp and easy-on-the eyes "electronic ink" display. But it only does one thing -- read books. After all the relatively hostile things I have said about Amazon's Kindle e-book reader in the past, I...
- Tags: Device, Amazon.com Inc., Amazon Kindle, Amazon Kindle 2, Anathem, Tablets, Handhelds, Smart Phones, Wiki, E-mail, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2009-04-07
- Is it too late to turn around math/science ed in the US?
- Is it too late to turn around math/science ed in the US?'we need a complete paradigm shift...'Then shift the money. Right now in Texas schools get money for how many pass the TAS test. So that's what is taught, How to pass the TAS test. Give the schools...
- Tags: math/science, education
- Discussion threads 2009-03-26
- A robot that follows a human commander and responds to gestures
- This week marks another incremental step forward in the field of robotics, specifically around gestural control. Brown University reports that their researchers have demonstrated how a robot can follow nonverbal commands from a person in a variety of environments â€" indoors as well as outside â€" all without adjusting for...
- Tags: Brown University, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Chris Jablonski
- Blog posts 2009-03-14
- The Terminator scenario: Perhaps not so fictional after all
- The Terminator scenario: Perhaps not so fictional after allTerminator Scenario unlikely but misuse is a definite.I don't buy into the Terminator scenario very much. The idea of robots rising up in a coordinated effort is incredibly unrealistic at this point. Though I will admit its possible it is unlikely.What I...
- Tags: Robots, robot, Terminator
- Discussion threads 2009-02-20
- News to know: Tech sales and the art of spin; Firefox; Apple; HD streaming
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Brian Sommer: Quit Spinning - You're Making Me Dizzy Ryan Naraine: Firefox rushes out fix for password manager bug Matthew Miller: Microsoft deep sixes...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Richard Koman, Mozilla Firefox, Steve Ballmer, Radio, Apple Inc., Sales, Web Browsers, Advertising & Promotion, Open Source, Internet, Marketing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-09-29
- LHC, Genomics and the era of massive data sets
- The world won't end when the Large Hadron Collider makes its anticipated first collision of high-energy particles later this month, but it will produce an explosion of data. The LHC will produce as much data in a single day of experimentation as many scientists dealt with in a lifetime only...
- Tags: Data, Data Set, Policies And Procedures, Benefits, Robots, Wiki, Strategy, Human Resources, Emerging Technologies, Online Communications, Management, Mitch Ratcliffe
- Blog posts 2008-09-11
- I think I like Sid the Science Kid
- PBS has a new show, Sid the Science Kid, handled in large part by Jim Henson's daughter. This digital puppetry was given a fairly luke-warm review by the New York Times: His show, done in that hyperactive style that adults have determined is what the very...
- Tags: SID, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-09-02
- Exclusive: A robot with a biological brain
- Exclusive: A robot with a biological brainThe begining of the Cylon race? nt:(probably meant "you're" funnyDoesnt' change my opinion at all.Well, if this isn't the most immoral thing ever...it's gotta be kinda close.Cool but. could open a can of worms later...Did anyone else get a chill up the back of...
- Tags: Robots, biological brain, robot
- Discussion threads 2008-08-13
- Robot submarine to dive deep in the Caribbean
- According to BBC News, a new UK autonomous underwater vehicle AUV, Autosub6000, will soon start to explore the world's deepest undersea volcanoes located in the Caribbean. Autosub6000 has a range of up to 1,000 kilometers and has a maximum operating depth of 6,000 meters. It is 5.5 meters long, has...
- Tags: researcher, meter, british broadcasting corp., species, autosub6000, nocs, robots, engineering, emerging technologies, roland piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-08-10
- News to know: iPhone Dev Camp; So long computer science; Intel
- Notable headlines: Andrew Mager: Touring iPhone Dev Camp 2 Live: Day 2 from the iPhone Dev Camp 2 Hands full? Get the iPhone arm Video: Spectrum ZX game montage Dion Hinchliffe: Enterprise cloud computing gathers steam ...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Comcast Corp., Yahoo! Inc., Computer Science, Broadband, Computer, Intel Corp., Robots, Corporate Governance, Digital Cameras, Federal Government, Monitors & Displays, Broadband Internet, Network Technology, Emerging Technologies, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Government, Hardware, Components, Telecommunications, Networking, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-04
- Thinking -- Or Feeling -- Like A Computer
- So an unknown billionaire named Jeffrey E. Epstein has spent millions trying to develop a thinking and feeling computer. But winds up in jail instead. This sounds eerily like a wish to build a HAL 9000 computer that was the central character of Arthur C. Clarke's science...
- Tags: Thinking Machines, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Computer, Astronaut, Productivity, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2008-07-01
- Breaking the dialogues of the deaf
- Breaking the dialogues of the deafre:.I love how you think of everything in black and white terms... its refreshing. But what if you consider this cognitive dissonance in computing security to be a market itself? Most people don't actually understand very much about the subject due to not their capacity...
- Tags: security, information technology, Cognitive Dissonance
- Discussion threads 2008-06-10
- A UMan robotic arm
- Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have developed a mobile robotic arm which can manipulate objects by 'seeing' its environment through a digital camera. This robotic arm, dubbed UMan, or UMass Mobile Manipulator, can 'approach unfamiliar objects, such as scissors, garden shears and jointed wooden toys -- and learn...
- Tags: Environment, UMan, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-06-06
- Survivor Buddy, a friendly robot rescuer
- The St. Petersburg Times, Florida, reports that a well-known robot designer, Robin Murphy, a professor of computer science and engineering at the University of South Florida USF, 'plans to add a heart to robot rescuers.' As says USF, the goal is to develop 'a robot that will be a companion...
- Tags: Details, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-05-17
- A sailing robot to cross the Atlantic
- The Times of London reports that seven robotic craft will compete in a race across the Atlantic Ocean in October 2008. One of them, 'Pinta the robot sailing boat,' has been designed at Aberystwyth University, Wales, UK. Pinta is expected to sail for three months at a maximum speed of...
- Tags: Pinta, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-05-11
- Microsoft looks to make product planning more science than art
- Microsoft has been quietly building a platform to help its own product teams -- and ultimately, those from other companies -- turn product planning more of a science and less of a black art. Microsoft calls the test bed the Microsoft Experimentation Platform ExP. Here is how...
- Tags: Software, Team, Experiment, Platform, Experimentation, Microsoft Corp., ExP, EXP Team, MJF, Human Intuition, Team Management, Tools & Techniques, Management, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-04-16
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