Exmobaby pajamas: real-time baby monitoring straight to your cell phone
Posted by admin in Electronics on 01. Sep, 2010 | 0 Comments
Cheyenne Crow from Exmovere Holdings with child wearing Exmobaby pajamas Seems not even babies are safe from the advances in wearable technology. Nowadays, unborn children can tweet or listen to music and fully-fledged infants can wear a suit that changes color when they have a fever. The latest wearable concept is the Exmobaby sleep suit [...]
Tomb-Bot Will Be the First to Enter Final Secret Chambers of the Great Pyramid
Posted by admin in Robots, Science on 10. Aug, 2010 | 0 Comments
Upuaut-2 The Upuaut-2 bot was used in an earlier exploration of the Queen’s Chamber. Egyptologists are hoping some 21st-century tech will help them unlock secrets from 4,500 years ago. They’re using a robot to explore the Great Pyramid of Giza. The robot will traverse two unexplored shafts leading from the Queen’s Chamber in the pyramid. [...]
New Japanese Telepresence Robot Pushes the Boundaries of Creepy
Posted by admin in Robots on 03. Aug, 2010 | 0 Comments
Telenoid Robot Telenoid R1 with Dr. Hiroshi Ishiguro, a professor at Osaka University. Maybe it’s just us, but some Japanese robots are a special brand of creepy. The moaning mouth was bad enough, but now there’s this tadpole-shaped telepresence robot, hereby christened Larvabot. The Telenoid R1 is meant to be a minimalist human, so details [...]
ROILA, a New Spoken Language Designed for Robots
Posted by admin in Robots on 15. Jul, 2010 | 2 Comments
Pito loki wikute tuji! That’s ROILA for "I like fruit." These Lego Mindstorms NXT robots are learning ROILA, Robot Interaction Language, as part of a team of robots donated by Lego. The next step is to allow the NXT robots to talk in ROILA via text-to-speech synthesis. Soon, when you want your helper robot to [...]
A giant double-screen tablet to replace giant textbooks
Posted by admin in Computers, Electronics on 11. Jun, 2010 | 1 Comment
The Kno will feature two connected 14.1 inch 1440 x 900 anti-glare capacitive touchscreen displays connected via a flexible hinge Huge, heavy reference tomes are still a major part of modern study and research. If you’ve ever wished that those textbooks in front of you could come to life and offer a more engaging experience [...]
