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Robots fly over Antarctica

Researchers from the British Antarctic Survey BAS have successfully run a series of flights by autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles UAVs over Antarctica. These robotic planes have a 2-meter wingspan and weigh 6 kilograms. They are powered by Lithium Ion Polymer LIPo battery packs -- similar to the ones in your...

Tags: Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, Antarctic, Robots, Engineering, Advertising & Promotion, Emerging Technologies, Marketing, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-03-19

A flying fish or a seaplane?

University of Michigan engineers have developed a new unmanned aerial vehicle UAV after looking at real flying fish. Like the fish, this seaplane takes off and lands on water. The 7-foot wingspan electric UAV has been funded by the DOD's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency DARPA and designed as 'an...

Tags: University Of Michigan, Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, Aerospace & Defense, GPS, Manufacturing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2007-12-06

MIT's smart flying drones

As recent events have shown, military forces around the world are more and more relying on small unmanned aerial vehicles UAVs for surveillance missions. But these UAVs usually need many skilled operators to control them. Now, the Boston Globe reports that a new MIT air force is ready for help....

Tags: Defense &, Security, Space &, Aerospace, Robotics, Computers &, Internet, Engineering &, Innovation

Blog posts 2006-11-21

Additional Resources

Trick out your fleet with fuel consumption monitors from Networkcar

OK, I admit it. When I bought my car a year-and-a-half ago, comparing the fuel consumption metrics among the different models WAS part of the equation, but not the most important part. Now, with gas lines forming in my own little town and people putting summer trips...

Tags: Monitor, Performance, Technology, Performance Management, GPS, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-07-03

Garmin Nuvi 880

Ever since the Garmin Nuvi 880 was announced at CES 2008, we've been excited to get out hands on this portable navigation system. Given the good track record of the other Nuvi series devices, we expected more of the same, solid feature list and good performance. However, we were most...

Tags: Keyboards, Garmin Nuvi, Garmin Nuvi 880, speech recognition, Garmin Ltd.

Product reviews 2008-06-30

Car crash on Wall Street: many injuries and heavy losses

Not since the financial industry did a header off the high board into a mortgage pool filled with bad paper. It's been literally weeks since an American-based business sector looked this sick. I've been trying to keep up with the bloody saga of the Detroit auto makers and...

Tags: Car, Stock, Chrysler LLC, General Motors Corp., Wall, Sales Strategy, Mortgages, Sales Force Management, Construction, Currency & Foreign Exchange, Investment, Sales, Finance, Capital Structures, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-06-30

Lame hands-free law goes into effect in WA State on 1 July 2008

Lame hands-free law goes into effect in WA State on 1 July 2008Stats prove itFrom http://www.jmu.edu/safetyplan/vehicle/generaldriver/safetybelt.shtml* Approximately 35,000 people die in motor vehicle crashes each year. About 50 percent (17,000) of these people could be saved if they wore their safety belts.* For every one percent increase in safety belt...

Tags: Cellular phones, belt, seat belt, phone, CD

Discussion threads 2008-06-30

Tech, telecom join up to beat back trolls

Seeing as how patent reform has died on the vine, several tech and telecom companies are taking matters into their own hands, the Wall Street Journal reports. Scared by the NTP v Research in Motion case, in which the BlackBerry maker came perilously close to folding...

Tags: Patent, Troll, NTP, Telephony, Telecommunications, Networking, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-06-30

(Photos: Top 10 reviews of the week)

(Photos: Top 10 reviews of the week)Infinity ?You give a good rating to the Infinity M45X ?The Chrysler 300 has a hard drive based navigation system with traffic reporting, a great stereo with digital music options, MyGig interactive voice prompt system, adaptive Cruise control, leather seats, is super quiet, has...

Tags: photograph, Chrysler 300, Infinity M45X

Discussion threads 2008-06-30

Detroit auto industry going through shock therapy? As in electric shock? Sales numbers say this is real and this is do-or-die

Detroit auto industry going through shock therapy? As in electric shock? Sales numbers say this is real and this is do-or-dieAmerica is finishedThis latest downturn coupled with the internet and lax foreign ownership laws means that the devaluation of housing, which would normally ultimately let poor Americans back...

Tags: industry, Big 3, sales, therapy, Saturn

Discussion threads 2008-06-27

Detroit auto industry going through shock therapy? As in electric shock? Sales numbers say this is real and this is do-or-die

Perhaps never has the Detroit auto industry faced such a challenge. Not from the small cool VW beetle in the 1960s. Not from the onslaught of Datsun and Toyota a decade later. Not from the Honda Civic in the Nineties. This time the challenge is not...

Tags: Industry, Gasoline, Therapy, General Motors Corp., Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-06-27

The harsh reality of suburban broadband

The harsh reality of suburban broadbandi live in parsippanyand my Optimum line does not go down ever! I've had it for over a year now and I have decided to not even consider switching to FIOS as I have zero issues of any kind. My speed test results are 27468...

Tags: Network technology, Broadband Internet, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Cable, suburban broadband, harsh reality, broadband, Fios, Verizon Communications Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-06-22

Car makers are doing all they can, you and I are the problem

Car makers are doing all they can, you and I are the problem....Not buying it Harry. People didn't buy the more efficient vehicles because they were not marketed with the same "sexy" fervor as the larger and less efficient ones. That is a fact. Almost every car commercial or advertisement...

Tags: Manufacturing, I-told-you-so, Blame Game, big vehicle, efficient vehicle

Discussion threads 2008-06-18

Car makers are doing all they can, you and I are the problem

Enclave, courtesy Buick. The very nice man at the Auto Alliance did not accuse me of being stupid, nor did he even accuse you of being short-sighted. But that's the bottom line. The auto manufacturers have been making high mileage cars and bringing...

Tags: Car, Charlie Territo, Americans, Taxes, Free Trade, Fuel Cells, Financial Planning, Finance, Emerging Technologies, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-06-18

My App Store wishlist (updated)

In a previous post I mentioned a few of my most anticipated announced iPhone applications, but what about the ones that weren't announced? There are several iPhone applications that I'd love to see on the App Store that I haven't seen mentioned. Ideally they'd be free, but...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Instant Messaging, GPS, Games, Internet, Online Communications, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-06-18

Robotic Humvees in the sky?

According to Computerworld, a Colorado-based company has developed a prototype of a 'flying Humvee' robotic aircraft to ship supplies to military troops. This robotic aircraft, dubbed the V-STAR, short for "VTOL Swift Tactical Aerial Resource,' should be operational around 2010. If calling it a 'flying Humvee' is a figure of...

Tags: Aircraft, Computerworld, V-STAR, Aerospace & Defense, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Business Operations, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-06-18

(Photos: Backstage at Kennedy Space Center, Act 2)

(Photos: Backstage at Kennedy Space Center, Act 2)Ares I vs. VThere's a parachute picture (Image 9) that refers to "the Ares 1 cargo launch vehicle" but as far as I know, no such beast exists. Ares 1 will be the launch vehicle for the Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle (CEV, for...

Tags: Ares, photograph

Discussion threads 2008-06-18

Robots working 6,000 meters below sea level

MercoPress, a news agency based in Uruguay, reports that German engineers are using an aquatic robot able to work 6,000 meters below sea level. This remotely operated vehicle ROV, dubbed Kiel-6000, is operated by the Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences from the University of Kiel. The robot weighs 3.5 tons...

Tags: Carbon Dioxide, Remotely Operated Vehicle, Kiel-6000, Colin Devey, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-06-17

Continuous prototyping

Continuous prototypingFavourite "agile" tricksOne of the ideas in web development that holds true in this context is to get the user "building" as much as possible. A lot of the back and forth stuff disappears when the user is psychologically involved in the process - ie, if they actually chose...

Tags: Manufacturing, Continuous Prototyping, Demming, software development

Discussion threads 2008-06-16

NASA robots on Moses Lake dunes

According to the Tri-City Herald, WA, NASA engineers in space suits have tested new robotic vehicles for two weeks on the dunes of Moses Lake, WA. These robots could be used on future NASA missions on the Moon and on Mars. According to the newspaper, five robotic vehicles were tested:...

Tags: NASA, WA, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-06-12