Category: Gadgets
Boston Dynamics Takes Alpha Dog Military Robot Out For Its First Walk
Written by: Peter Murray 12 hours ago
First there were porters, then beasts of burden, then mechanized vehicles. And now we’re back to beasts of burden – [...]
Kurzweil Featured In Superbowl Ad? Yes, It’s True!
Written by: Keith Kleiner 4 days ago
If you were watching the Superbowl yesterday then you were probably as stunned as I was to see none other [...]
Dropping the F-BOMB, A Disposable Spy Computer Funded by DARPA
Written by: Peter Murray 7 days ago
Attach a camera to a drone, fly the drone around the back of the house, locate the bad guys. Robotic [...]
A Look At BMW’s Semi-Autonomous Driving Car
Written by: Peter Murray 8 days ago
While robotic cars have a ways to go yet before rolling (themselves) out onto showroom floors, BMW is incorporating driver [...]
Take A Look At Dropcam’s New High-Definition Surveillance Camera
Written by: Peter Murray 9 days ago
The dropcam surveillance camera was already about as user-friendly as could be, now it’s added high-definition video and two-way audio [...]
The Current State Of Wind Power — 2012 Should Be The Biggest Year Yet
Written by: David Hill 9 days ago
When Barack Obama ran for President back in 2008, one of the ‘changes’ that he set forth was a New [...]
eye3: The Robotic Copter That You Can Afford
Written by: Peter Murray 9 days ago
UPDATE: Kickstarter has cancelled funding for eye3 due to delayed deliveries, skepticism that the drone will actually work and suspicion [...]
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
It’s tough being an avid mobile device user these days. First, carriers tempt you with the latest feature-packed devices while [...]
Need a New Assistant? Evi Makes a Bid to Replace Siri on iPhone and Android
Written by: Aaron Saenz 11 days ago
When the iPhone 4S arrived last fall, one of the most talked about, and lauded, features was Siri, the virtual [...]
SkyLight Adapter Connects Microscopes To Smartphones
Written by: Peter Murray 13 days ago
The SkyLight is really a simple device derived to solve a simple problem: how to keep your smartphone still enough [...]
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iRobot CEO Discusses Their New Robot AVA
Written by: Peter Murray 15 days ago
We found this video from CNNMoney, about AVA, iRobot’s latest personal assistance robot. We’ve covered AVA before, how it’s basically [...]
Police Are Making A Scanner To Detect Concealed Weapons 80 Feet Away (video)
Written by: Peter Murray 16 days ago
The New York Police Department is working with the Department of Defense to develop a scanning device that would allow [...]
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CES 2012 and Consumer Robotics: Informative yet confusing… and bad food!
Written by: Frank Tobe 16 days ago
CES 2012 was a mammoth display of the trend toward smart, connected devices for every form of consumer activity: toys, [...]
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Hmmm.... *looks at Watson* *imagines 1000^2 times more powerful computer* *imagines Watson becomes as good as other things as he is with natural language* effectively this date gives computers after the [...]
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Seems quite possible. But will it be AI? Or will it be a well-programmed machine that understands native English? Still impressive, but there's a [...]
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How does the first question mostly made of 0's? There are clearly more 1's (especially if one distinguishes between o and 0)