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- Robotic Humvees in the sky?
- Robotic Humvees in the sky?Cool...but...This is, of course, _tres cool_ from a techie point of view. But that price tag makes it worthless. At $4M/bird, and this thing is intended to go into hot zones, hover and land, right? Talk about a prime target for every bad...
- Tags: Robotic Humvees
- Discussion threads 2008-06-19
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- Using space robots to fix ailing satellites?
- Using space robots to fix ailing satellites?This is not new ....... I worked on the project that was supposed to repair the Hubble, which was adapted from another "robotic satellite repair" project.In the end of the day, the cost of development and execution turned out to be more than double...
- Tags: Robots, Network technology, satellite, robot
- Discussion threads 2008-10-04
- Using space robots to fix ailing satellites?
- According to Canadian engineers at Queen's University, there are now more than 8,000 satellites in orbit around the Earth. Of course, if they stop to work correctly, these satellites will not be able to be repaired from the ground and will become space junk. So these researchers have developed a...
- Tags: Robot, Satellite, Network Technology, Networking, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-10-04
- Pterodactyl-inspired flying robots
- According to Sankar Chatterjee, a professor of paleontology at the Texas Tech University in Lubbock TTU, a 225-million-year-old pterodactyl might soon be reborn as a flying robot. The Tapejara wellnhoferi, which lived in Brazil, was a big flying lizard with an unusual 'accessory,' an 8-inch-high fleshy crest stuck straight up...
- Tags: Professor, Texas Tech University, Aircraft, Tapejara, Pterosaur, Aerospace & Defense, Robots, Manufacturing, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-10-01
- Samsung SBH700
- As much as we like regular wired earbuds for listening to music, we would probably go for a stereo Bluetooth headset instead if it was an option. Not only does it free you from dealing with wires, but it's also easier to use in the gym or when running in...
- Tags: Engineering, charger jack, Samsung SBH-700, ear bud, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., headset, music
- Product reviews 2008-09-25
- Kyocera Tempo E2000
- We don't review many U.S. Cellular phones because the carrier is regional and not nationwide. However, there are several phones for U.S. Cellular that aren't available for other carriers, and the Kyocera Tempo is one of them. The Tempo is one of Kyocera's few music-focused phones released in the U.S....
- Tags: Media players, Digital music, Engineering, Kyocera Tempo, Kyocera Wireless Corp.
- Product reviews 2008-09-25
- Cleaning ship hulls with a robot
- This is the goal of a EU-funded project called HISMAR Hull Identification System for Marine Autonomous Robotics. European researchers and engineers are working on an automated robotic cleaning system that removes marine growth from the hull of a ship. By cleaning a ship's hull, this robot will allow ships to...
- Tags: Vessel, Ship, HISMAR, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-09-18
- BlueAnt V1
- We've grown to be pretty big fans of BlueAnt headsets over the past year, especially with the BlueAnt Z9 and the BlueAnt Z9i. Both Bluetooth headsets impressed us with excellent sound quality, while the Z9i improved upon the original with extra features like better audio and the addition of multipoint...
- Tags: earpiece, BlueAnt, headset, BlueAnt Z9
- Product reviews 2008-09-05
- A robotic tuna for the Navy
- A robotic tuna for the NavyBewareBeware the RoboTuna.
- Tags: robotic
- Discussion threads 2008-09-05
- News to know: Google Chrome; WinMobile's future; WiFi's big success; VMware
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: First look at Google Chrome One day after Google inadvertently discloses the impending release of Chrome, we get to see the browser first-hand. See my gallery tour...
- Tags: Google Inc., VMware Inc., Wi-Fi, Virtualization, Web Browsers, Sales Strategy, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Internet, Sales, Storage, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-09-03
- A robotic tuna for the Navy
- You might not know that the bluefin tuna is an ultra-efficient swimmer. But the U.S. Navy knows that this tuna can reach speeds of 50 mph. So it wants to build robotic bluefin tunas for submarine surveillance missions. The first prototypes, designed by Massachusetts engineers, should be available by the...
- Tags: Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Massachusetts, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-09-02
- Canada, U.S. two ships passing in the ideological night
- Canada, U.S. two ships passing in the ideological night.....Our arrogance is our own demise. It's that simple. ]:)We already have a crippled two-level systemIt's called Medicare/Medicaid.And once again the author shows his ignorance of economics. In a truly private, competitive health care system, if universal electronic records provided increased profits,...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Insurance, Strategy, health care, ideology, ideological night, enormous innovation, surcharge, innovation
- Discussion threads 2008-08-25
- Canada, U.S. two ships passing in the ideological night
- To listen to health care debates raging in the U.S. and Canada is to hear ideology taken to extremes. Most Canadians can't get private health care at all, and the Canadian Medical Association CMA is fighting an uphill battle to build a private system. In the U.S.,...
- Tags: U.S., Health Care, Canada, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-08-25
- ZTE C79
- ZTE is a little known brand in the U.S., but the Chinese manufacturer is slowly but surely making its presence felt in the U.S. cell market. It kicked off its U.S. debut earlier this year with a couple of entry-level phones, such as the ZTE C88 for MetroPCS, and now...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Media players, ZTE C79, ZTE, phone, music player
- Product reviews 2008-08-14
- HGST demos 600Gbit/in² disk density
- HGST demos 600Gbit/in² disk densityOldie but a goodieI have a feeling that hard disks are going to be around for quite some time - even with the rise of hard disk sizes and lowering of price there are still robotic tape libraries that are being developed and sold.There will never...
- Tags: disk density, HGST, disk
- Discussion threads 2008-08-05
- Search the web visually with Viewzi
- If you use the web a lot, you probably use Google a lot. It's a habit for you to plug in keywords and you can easily browse the search results page to find what you are looking for. But isn't that sort of... robotic? Dallas-based Viewzi is...
- Tags: Google Inc., Web, View, Viewzi, Search Freak, Gallucci, iPhone Development, Corporate Communications, Channel Management, Marketing, Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2008-08-04
- Robot buoy to track oil spills
- Yesterday, Japan Today reported about a prototype of robotic buoy developed at Osaka University to fight sea pollution in the event of an environmental disaster caused by an oil spill. The current prototype, dubbed SOTAB (short for 'Spilled Oil Tracking Autonomous Buoy') is a 110-kilogram GPS-equipped robot. The cylindrical buoy...
- Tags: Oil, Buoy, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-08-03
- The Ultimate Geek Vending Machine
- Imagine my surprise when I spotted this vending machine on a recent trip to Minneapolis. Stationed in Concourse E of the Lindbergh terminal of Minneapolis-St. Paul International, this machine has been in operation at least since late 2007. Although this machine is missing the essentials such...
- Tags: Apple iPod, Machine, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-08-01
- 2016: "You're watching the Linux Channel."
- 2016: "You're watching the Linux Channel."My ViewFirst, no one hates Microsoft more than I do - for both practical and ethical reasons. After dealing with Microshaft's endless parade of crap for nearly two decades, I finally abandoned my PC for a Mac. It was one of the best moves of...
- Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Linux
- Discussion threads 2008-07-24
- Tape: The Digital Curator of the Information Age Formation
- The 56 year-old magnetic tape industry continues to evolve. Markets are shifting as disk slowly encroaches on tape's traditional backup/recovery market while tape is positioning itself for the exploding tier 3 data such as fixed content, compliance and archive market. In 2007, annual tape industry revenues total just over $4B...
- Tags: Revenue, Disk, Industry, Horison, Markets, Strategy, Management
- White papers 2008-07-17
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