Willow Garage’s PR2 robot now for sale
Posted by admin in Robots on 09. Sep, 2010 | 0 Comments
PR2 – short for Personal Robot 2 – is roughly the size of a person and consists of a mobile base sitting upon four steered and driven casters, torso, head, two arms, an array of sensors and sixteen cores for computation. The torso moves up and down relative to the base, to give PR2 a [...]
Mind reading – scientists translate brain signals into words
Posted by admin in Medicine, Science on 09. Sep, 2010 | 0 Comments
Larger, numbered button-like electrodes (ECoGs) alongside the microECoGs indicated by the 4×4 circle grid at the end of the green and orange wires on the brain of a volunteer patient Using the same technology that allowed them to accurately detect the brain signals controlling arm movements that we looked at last year, researchers at the [...]
Mobileye claims ‘An End to Motor Vehicle Collisions’
Posted by admin in Auto on 08. Sep, 2010 | 0 Comments
Mobileye’s warning system alerts drivers to imminent forward collisions and other driving hazards Before we go any further, let’s get this out of the way right up front – nothing is ever going to stop cars from running into things. Until drivers are taken out of the equation completely, accidents will always happen. Nonetheless, Dutch [...]
Natural Guidance from Navteq – a more human angle on navigation
Posted by admin in Electronics on 07. Sep, 2010 | 0 Comments
‘Take a left after the church’ Navteq’s Natural Guidance system aims to make GPS navigation instructions more like what a passenger who knows the way might say to you. Brilliant idea or bad move? Awful advertising, either way. Navteq has decided that typical turn-by-turn navigation instructions like "in 300 meters, turn left" aren’t ‘human’ enough. [...]
Apple unveils new slimmed down, streaming-focused Apple TV
Posted by admin in Computers on 02. Sep, 2010 | 0 Comments
Apple’s shrunk down Apple TV The “one more thing” at Apple’s September 1 event was an updated Apple TV. Apple has certainly cranked up the ol’ shrink ray for a form factor that is 80 percent smaller than the previous generation. The rumored addition of apps didn’t eventuate nor did the rebranding to “iTV” but, [...]
