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Tag Archives: android
EMIEW2, The New And Improved Office Robot From Hitachi
Chasing down staplers and printer cartridges hurting your productivity at the office? Fret not. Hitachi has just come out with [...]
Posted in AI, Robots, Singularity, Video Central
Tagged ai, android, EMIEW2, hitachi, humanoid robot, robot, robotic assistant, robotics, Robots
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The Parrot AR.Drone 2.0 In Action
Just when you thought the Parrot AR.Drone was awesome, it gets awesomer. Parrot gave quadricopter enthusiasts a sneak peek at [...]
Posted in Gadgets, Robots, Singularity, Video Central
Tagged android, ar.drone 2.0, drone, ipad, iPhone, quadricopter
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Need a New Assistant? Evi Makes a Bid to Replace Siri on iPhone and Android
When the iPhone 4S arrived last fall, one of the most talked about, and lauded, features was Siri, the virtual [...]
Posted in Computer Interfaces, Gadgets, Video Central
Tagged android, digital assistants, Evi, ios, iPhone 4s, Siri, True Knowledge, virtual assistants
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SkyLight Adapter Connects Microscopes To Smartphones
The SkyLight is really a simple device derived to solve a simple problem: how to keep your smartphone still enough [...]
Posted in Gadgets, Longevity And Health, Singularity
Tagged android, andy miller, App, medicine, microscopy, skylight, smartphone, tess bakke
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iPhone and Android Growing Like Crazy. Downloads up 83%, Phone Activation up 142% from Last Year
Mobile markets love Christmas. Smart phone activations go through the roof, and app downloads explode once the holiday season rolls [...]
Posted in Computer Interfaces, Singularity
Tagged 2011 Holiday season, android, exponential growth, Fiksu, Flurry, ios, iPhone, mobile app market
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Moverio – The Virtual 80-Inch, 3D Television You Wear On Your Face
Check Facebook posts, the Twitter feed, text someone, Google that actor in that movie you saw that time…watch a 3D [...]
Scanadu Raises $2M For Medical Tricorder (video)
Star Trek fans rejoice, the Tricorder is here. Medical tech startup Scanadu has created a scanner that appears to have [...]
Posted in Gadgets, Longevity And Health, Singularity, Video Central
Tagged android, App, body 2.0, iPhone, scanadu, tricorder, X Prize
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Robot: I Now Have Common Sense. Engineer: Great, Go Fetch Me a Sandwich!
Willow Garage’s gifted PR2 robot just got even smarter. Developers from the University of Tokyo and the Technical University of [...]
Posted in AI, Robots, Video Central
Tagged ai, android, PR2, robot, robotics, Robots, Technical University of Munchen, university of tokyo, Willow Garage
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Monitor Household Energy From Your Smartphone
Knowledge is power. And if you have People Power 1.0, People Power’s new mobile Energy Services Platform, you can use [...]
Posted in Gadgets, Singularity
Tagged android, green technology, greenx, iPhone, people power 1.0
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Artist Takes Your Junk And Makes Beautiful Robots
It’s Mad Max meets Toy Story. Or, perhaps, it’s one man’s junk is another man’s opportunity to teach the world [...]
Posted in AI, Gadgets, Robots
Tagged Andrea Petrachi, android, Himatic, humanoid robot, robotic sculptures, Robots
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iRobot Teams Up With Google – AVA Pedestal Robot With Tablet For A Head (video)
Finally Android tablets are going to be able to live up to their names. At the recent Google I/O conference, [...]
Posted in Robots, Video Central
Tagged android, AVA, colin angle, Google I/O, irobot, personal robot
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Google Invades Your Home…Android Phones Control Your Appliances and Accessories (video)
Soon your smart phone may be the only light switch you’ll ever need. At this year’s Google I/O conference, enterprising [...]
Posted in Computer Interfaces, Gadgets, Video Central
Tagged ADK, android, Android Accessory Development Kit, Android@Home, Google I/O, Project Tungsten
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50,000+ Download Android Flashlight App After Japanese Quake
Every global tragedy teaches humanity something about itself. Of the many lessons we may learn from the recent Japanese earthquake [...]
Posted in Gadgets
Tagged android, App, Free App, Nikolay Ananiev, smart phone, Tiny Flashlight+LED
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Latest Geminoid Robot Looks More Human than Creepy (video)
The Uncanny Valley is a pit of doom for robots, few that dare enter its depths will ever emerge again. [...]
Posted in Robots, Video Central
Tagged Aalborg University, actroid, android, Geminoid, Geminoid-DK, Henrik Sharfe, hiroshi ishiguro, replicant
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Car Radio Powered by Android. Introduce Your Ride to Some Apps (video)
Sure your car can go from 0 to 60 in less than four seconds, but can it play Angry Birds? [...]
Posted in Gadgets
Tagged android, App, applications, Asteroid, google, parrot, robotic car
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TRON is Coming, You Can Already Drive a Light Cycle On Your Phone (video)
I’ve crashed my motorcycle dozens of times in the past few days. Don’t worry, it’s virtual. Coke Zero has teamed [...]
Posted in Computer Interfaces
Tagged android, augmented reality, CokeZero, iPhone, LiveCycle, Tron, Tron Legacy, video game
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Android Crushing iPhone – Open Source For the Win
Google’s Android is spreading like wildfire. In little more than a year phones based on Google’s Android OS have gone [...]
Voice-Actions on Android Look Great – Star Trek Quality!
Google may have hit a homerun with the development of its latest App for Android phones. Their Voice Search application [...]
Posted in Computer Interfaces
Tagged android, Froyo, google, google mobile app, Siri, smart phone, voice actions, voice commands, voice search
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Exclusive: I Used BlindType, Virtual Keyboard of the Future
Typing on the iPhone is like squeezing sausages into a soda can – you can get it to work, but [...]
Your Mobile Phone Becomes A Robot With Cellbots (video)
Sure, we’ve all seen robots being controlled by a mobile phone, but how about a robot that is your mobile [...]
iPhone App From ScanR Puts Scanner and Fax Machine in Your Hands
Smart phones are becoming mobile business centers. Forget about texts, phone calls, emails, and web browsing, phones can now handle [...]
Posted in Gadgets
Tagged android, App, app store, BlackBerry, fax, iPhone, nokia symbian, scanner, ScanR, smart phone
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Android Touchscreen Module to Invade Home and Office Appliances
The Android platform is reaching beyond mobile phones and is poised to conquer all the electronic machines in your home. [...]
Posted in Computer Interfaces, Gadgets
Tagged android, CES 2010, CNN Money, Google Android, Jonathan Bloom, NIM1000, NIMble Kitchen, Touch Revolution
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Google Goggles Lets Your Phone Turn Photos Into Information (Video)
The real and digital world have been intermingling with all the reserve of college students at an open bar and [...]