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iRobot CEO Discusses Their New Robot AVA
Written by: Peter Murray 5 hours ago
We found this video from CNNMoney, about AVA, iRobot’s latest personal assistance robot. We’ve covered AVA before, how it’s basically [...]
Rollin’ Justin Robot Gets Agile, Learns How To Throw A Ball (video)
Written by: Peter Murray 1 day ago
Where was Agile Justin last year when we needed him to throw out the first pitch at a Philadelphia Phillies [...]
Police Are Making A Scanner To Detect Concealed Weapons 80 Feet Away (video)
Written by: Peter Murray 1 day ago
The New York Police Department is working with the Department of Defense to develop a scanning device that would allow [...]
CES 2012 and Consumer Robotics: Informative yet confusing… and bad food!
Written by: Frank Tobe 2 days ago
CES 2012 was a mammoth display of the trend toward smart, connected devices for every form of consumer activity: toys, [...]
MIT Media Lab Rolls Out Folding Car
Written by: Peter Murray 2 days ago
You think European cars are small now, wait till the Hiriko takes to the roads in Spain’s northern Basque country. [...]
Apple’s iBooks Praises Begin To Wither As Skepticism Settles In
Written by: David Hill 2 days ago
Apple started off 2012 with the $10 billion textbook market in its crosshairs. Last week, the company unveiled iBooks 2, [...]
Raspberry Pi Founder Eben Upton Walks You Through the Launch of the $35 Computer
Written by: Aaron Saenz 3 days ago
In just a few weeks UK’s Raspberry Pi Foundation will be ready to launch one of the most anticipated products [...]
On the Internet of Things IBM Tracks Your Pork From Farm to Fork. Starting with China
Written by: Aaron Saenz 3 days ago
IBM has set out to prove it can revolutionize the food industry with data, starting with China. Six industrial slaughterhouses [...]
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2012 a Big Year for MakerBot – New 3D Printer, $Millions in Funding, and Huge Growth Ahead
Written by: Aaron Saenz 4 days ago
Three years ago they had three employees and were still trying to keep their equipment from breaking down. Now MakerBot [...]
Why Don’t We Have Abundant Solar Power? Blame Financing, and Industry, not Science
Written by: Aaron Saenz 5 days ago
In the world of renewable energy resources, solar power is the epitome – abundant, reliable, and green. For decades scientists [...]
Is the iPad the Future of Education? Students in Palm Beach Florida Find Out
Written by: Aaron Saenz 6 days ago
Failing national school system? iPad might have an App for that. The Palm Beach School District in Florida finished their [...]
Ripsaw and Riptide – High Speed Tanks Rampage Across Land and Water
Written by: Aaron Saenz 7 days ago
For more than a century the tank has been a centerpiece of war – the seemingly unstoppable juggernaut that brought [...]
Call of Duty Video Game Reaches $1 Billion In Sales In 16 days, Faster Than Cameron’s Avatar
Written by: David Hill 7 days ago
Modern Warfare 3 (MW3), the eighth in the Call of Duty series, made an astonishing $400 million in sales in [...]
Shrugging Off Dependence On US, China Launching Its Own GPS Satellites
Written by: Peter Murray 7 days ago
What would it mean to lose GPS? Not only would we resort to that archaic method of writing down and [...]
benbradley
You think when Google makes automated taxis it should pay the salaries of former taxi drivers? Did Henry Ford pay the salaries of former buggy whip makers? [...]
arpad
Actually, the argument's always been that with new technologies, new wealth. The jobs that are typically displaced are low-skilled and repetitive jobs which means that cheap machines, [...]
jmufkinr
Well said