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DOMK Receives Confirmation That 1st “SolaPad” Units Are Being Prepared for Shipment
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New Autodesk SketchBook Ink App Delivers Stunning Creative Tools for iPad
24 May 2012 12:59 PM | No CommentsSAN RAFAEL, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ:ADSK) launched Autodesk SketchBook Ink for iPad paint and drawing app, the latest release from the company’s popular SketchBook...
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Vegas Tech Start Up Questionable LLC Launches Questionable Friends iPhone App
23 May 2012 4:53 PM | No CommentsLAS VEGAS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Questionable™ today introduced Questionable Friends™ for iPhone®. Questionable Friends lets you send questions to your contacts and provides instant feedback as questions are answered. Answers can be ...
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Sidecar Revolutionizes Phone Calls by Bringing “Smart Calling” to Smartphones
22 May 2012 12:00 PM | No CommentsSAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Launching today, Sidecar (www.sidecar.me) is a new mobile app that brings Smart Calling to smartphones. Smart Calling allows people to share live See What I See video, brilliant ...
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TransCore Launches Mobile iPad App for TransSuite Traffic Management System
21 May 2012 12:00 PM | No CommentsWASHINGTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Intelligent Transportation Society of America Annual Meeting – TransCore brings the ease of mobile computing to its TransSuite® advanced traffic management system (ATMS), launching its iPad® ...
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Robot Archive
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Creepy, creepier, Japan’s new Android (video)
Posted on April 5, 2010 | No Comments
If you still needed evidence Japan is the country churning out the most realistic androids out there, here's another hint for you. Meet Geminoid-F, the newest robot from one of Japan's most famous robot makers, Hiroshi Ishiguro. Ishiguro-san's invention is as realistic as it is creepy, but also very cool.
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Robot for your computer: Honda releases Asimo desktop widget
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The SiliFulin is a robot tail for humans (video)
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Japanese university develops Robo-Skateboard
Posted on March 31, 2010 | No Comments
Earlier today, we've covered Honda's U3-X, and now we bring you another mobility robot from Japan. What we have here is a robotic skateboard, which was developed by the Shibaura Institute of Technology in Tokyo. And no, it's not really a fun project. That DIY Segway skateboard is about to get some serious competition.
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Meet robot Hanako, the dental patient simulator (video)
Posted on March 25, 2010 | No Comments
Three Japanese universities (Waseda, Kogakuin and Showa) and robot maker Tmsuk have developed Hanako, a robotic dental patient who can behave like a human patient (to some extent). The robot, who is supposed to be female, can converse with doctors ("Please examine me!", "That hurts!" etc.), discharge robotic saliva, sneeze, open and close her mouth, etc.
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Robot + iPod touch = robovie mR2 (video)
Posted on March 22, 2010 | No Comments
Japan’s Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute (ATR) has unveiled robovie mR2 [JP], a cute desk robot that stands just 30cm tall and weighs 2kg. The cool thing is that users can place an iPod touch in his chest to control the robot (wirelessly via Wifi or by touching the screen).
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Jet Hitter: New Baseball robot allows solo practice
Posted on March 19, 2010 | No Comments
Baseball robots are nothing new (there's even a dedicated Wikipedia article on them), but that didn't stop Japan's Meiji University and Yokohama-based metal recycling company MRC [JP] to come up with the so-called Jet Hitter [JP].
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If only you had actually seen The Hurt Locker
Posted on March 18, 2010 | No CommentsWho saw The Hurt Locker? Oh, right: none of you. Even if you didn't you probably are already familiar with the basic concept: a U.S. Army guy whose job it is to disable I.E.D.s sorta goes crazy. That's the gist of it. Meanwhile, the Ministry of Defense in the UK has unveiled something called the Dragon Runner, a remote-controlled robot that disables bombs.
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Meet Tsutenkaku, a robot that looks like a tower (video)
Posted on March 16, 2010 | No Comments
Japan has a lot of different robots so why not develop one that looks like a tower - even if it may make no sense whatsoever? That's what a total of seven Japanese companies thought and built the Tsutenkaku Robotto [JP] (Tsutenkaku roughly translates to "tower that extends to the sky"). And as the name suggests, the robot is pretty tall: 170cm.
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Daily Crunch: Escape from the Red Planet Edition
Posted on March 16, 2010 | No CommentsVideo: Meet scary baby robot Yotaro CrunchGear Monday Giveaway: An Apple iPad #crunchgear Aspiral Clock makes telling time a ball Geekware: Crazy old gear gives up the ghost to become clocks You’ll never ID this photo (unless you read Reddit) -
Aquafairy FC Stick: Efficient mini fuel cell for gadget fans (video)
Posted on March 11, 2010 | No Comments
Fuel cells are on their way into the mainstream, even though the commercially available models are still pretty pricey. But there are companies like Kyoto-based Aquafairy [JP], for example, preparing affordable fuel cells, too. Their four new fuel cells are intended to make gadget fans in particular happy: the micro FC Stick (0.8W), the FC-Stick (2W), the FC-Cube (3W) and the FC-Cube Dual (6W).
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Here, waste some time: Top 10 Worst Mega Man Robot Masters
Posted on March 4, 2010 | No CommentsWhile the voiceover is a little, how you say, annoying, the video is actually quite funny. I haven’t played Mega Man in years, actually, so I missed most of these guys. There was actually a Clown Man? Plant Man? Seriously? -
Daily Crunch: Teleconference Edition
Posted on March 4, 2010 | No CommentsHere are some of yesterday’s stories: Video: Excellent hand-built, self-powered marble-lifting machine This Casio G-Shock looks like they dipped it in Pixy Stix (comes with robot) Canon weather-sealed 70-200mm L… coffee thermos? Will Valve revitalize Mac gaming with Steam for OS X? MIT’s teleconferencing robot can interact with, strangle you LED flashlight records nightvision video -
Review: A10 Cyclone (NSFW)
Posted on February 13, 2010 | No CommentsSo once you become a reviewer of Tenga Jars it seems you become the go-to guy for folks trying to sell Tenga Jars. I feel like Malcom’s dad in Breaking Bad. You get into something for noble reasons and you end up killing a dude in the desert after blowing up his headquarters with fulminated [...] -
TiVo sez Doritos commercial was the biggest hit in the Super Bowl
Posted on February 8, 2010 | No CommentsThanks to TiVo, we have a pretty good idea of what the most popular commercials from last night's Super Bow. Survey says: that Doritos commercial with the little kid telling his mom's date to keep his hands off his mother (fat chance!) and off his Doritos. America is a peculiar little country, isn't it, cheese-flavored chips and light beer as far as the eye can see.