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Boston Dynamics Takes Alpha Dog Military Robot Out For Its First Walk

Written by: Peter Murray 9 hours ago

DAPRA released a video of the LS3 Alpha Dog as it conquers a woody hillside. More intensive testing is to begin this summer.

First there were porters, then beasts of burden, then mechanized vehicles. And now we’re back to beasts of burden – [...]

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Kurzweil Featured In Superbowl Ad? Yes, It’s True!

Written by: Keith Kleiner 3 days ago

Optimized-kurzweil-superbowl

If you were watching the Superbowl yesterday then you were probably as stunned as I was to see none other [...]

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Dropping the F-BOMB, A Disposable Spy Computer Funded by DARPA

Written by: Peter Murray 6 days ago

Witha PogoPlug NAS box, a few antennae, flash memory and some batteries, and you've got a cheap, disposable F-BOMB with which to collect data on adversaries.

Attach a camera to a drone, fly the drone around the back of the house, locate the bad guys. Robotic [...]

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A Look At BMW’s Semi-Autonomous Driving Car

Written by: Peter Murray 7 days ago

The upright, folded hands is a sign of confidence. So is driving a BMW. With ConnectedDrive Connect, BMW owners can do both!

While robotic cars have a ways to go yet before rolling (themselves) out onto showroom floors, BMW is incorporating driver [...]

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Take A Look At Dropcam’s New High-Definition Surveillance Camera

Written by: Peter Murray 8 days ago

Dropcam adds HD, infrared and two-way audio to their new Dropcam HD.

The dropcam surveillance camera was already about as user-friendly as could be, now it’s added high-definition video and two-way audio [...]

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The Current State Of Wind Power — 2012 Should Be The Biggest Year Yet

Written by: David Hill 8 days ago

The winds of change continue to blow for this in vogue renewable energy.

When Barack Obama ran for President back in 2008, one of the ‘changes’ that he set forth was a New [...]

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eye3: The Robotic Copter That You Can Afford

Written by: Peter Murray 9 days ago

eye3 copy

UPDATE: Kickstarter has cancelled funding for eye3 due to delayed deliveries, skepticism that the drone will actually work and suspicion [...]

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All Your Bandwidth Are Belong To Us: Half Of World’s Bandwidth Consumed By Only 1% of Users

Written by: David Hill 9 days ago

The most extreme smartphone users are eating up the network extremely well.

It’s tough being an avid mobile device user these days. First, carriers tempt you with the latest feature-packed devices while [...]

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Need a New Assistant? Evi Makes a Bid to Replace Siri on iPhone and Android

Written by: Aaron Saenz 11 days ago

evi feature

When the iPhone 4S arrived last fall, one of the most talked about, and lauded, features was Siri, the virtual [...]

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SkyLight Adapter Connects Microscopes To Smartphones

Written by: Peter Murray 13 days ago

SkyLight co-founders Andy Miller and Tess Bakke.

The SkyLight is really a simple device derived to solve a simple problem: how to keep your smartphone still enough [...]