The folks from The Venice Project, who brought us Skype, have changed their product name to Joost. They are on the cusp of expanding the beta invitations to include more people so sign up for the beta list. The screens look pretty interesting and apparently more and more features are being added in each iteration of the product. Stay tuned...
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In case you were wondering, no, it's not a real lawnmower--it's a model airplane outfitted to look like one. Which may be just as cool.
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Everyone loves soccer, and everyone loves robots. So, a mash-up involving robots playing soccer has got to be really exciting and popular...
The result is a rather entertaining game, and though the contestants are currently remote-controlled, we're sure these little bots will figure out the necessary maliciousness on their own before long.
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No one at the Pentagon has plans to stick G.I.s in giant, six-legged, super-strong robots. Yet. But you've got to figure it's only a matter of time, now that a Finnish subsidiary of John Deere is building the machines for new-jack lumberjacks.
In the works for a decade and a half, the Plustech Oy Walking Machine is supposed to be an eco-friendly, log-hauling monstrosity; its six massive legs spreads the weight of the machine evenly, the company claims, to minimize any impact on the forest soil.
"Depending on the terrain, the ground...
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Heliodisplay images are not holographic although they are free-space, employing a rear projection system in which images are captured onto a nearly invisible plane of transformed air. What the viewer sees is floating mid-air image or video. These projected images and video are two-dimensional, (i.e. planar) but appear 3D since there is no physical depth reference. While conventional displays have the benefit of being attached to a physical substrate, Heliodisplay projections are suspended in air, so you will notice some waviness to the quality...
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Japanese Masaaki Nagumo builds a 3.4m high walking robot based on the Mobile Suit Gundam anime series.
The Land Walker robot is really working and is currently made to order for 36 million yen (US$300,000). The robot weighs 1 ton and can walk forward, backward and sideways. It shoots sponge bullets from its mounted guns.
No VotesEmail this | No Comments | 1 ImageOpera has developed a new indexing system that analyzes the structure of web content and it found that only 4.13...
YouTube has responded in the negative to the McCain campaign's request that some takedown notices against campaign...
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