40-inch multitouch desk set for CES debut
Posted by admin in Computers, Design on 25. Nov, 2011 | 0 Comments
Could multi-touch desks be the wave of the future? ExoPC thinks so, and has posted a video of its new 40-inch multitouch desk on YouTube – a desk it plans on officially announcing at the Consumer Electronics Show at the beginning of January. The teaser video (below) doesn’t offer a ton of information about [...]
PlateMate crowd-sources nutritional analysis of users’ meals
Posted by admin in Computers, Medicine on 03. Nov, 2011 | 0 Comments
While there are a great many people who want to lose weight by dieting, there aren’t too many who can afford to have a nutritionist assess the caloric value of all their food choices. Using the PlateMate system, however, members can get an online community of laypeople to do exactly that – and for considerably [...]
"Gloria" will allow internet astronomers to access worldwide robotic telescope network
Posted by admin in Computers, Space on 19. Oct, 2011 | 0 Comments
Amateur astronomers wanting to observe celestial bodies soon won’t be limited to just their own personal telescopes, or visits to the local public observatory. Starting next year, the first in a worldwide network of robotic telescopes will be going online, which users from any location on the planet will be able to operate for free [...]
iPet Companion: tele-play with their pets
Posted by admin in Computers, Electronics, Robots on 10. Oct, 2011 | 0 Comments
If you own a dog or a cat and are having a hard day at work, wouldn’t it be nice to be able to take a break and play with them? Well, if you’ve got the money, now you can do it – via the internet. A consumer version of a system already in use [...]
Supercomputer reads the news to successfully forecast world events
Posted by admin in Computers on 14. Sep, 2011 | 0 Comments
Graph of media sentiment towards Egypt january 1979 – March 2011 Nipping at the heels of yesterday’s story about the software that automatically writes news articles comes another technological innovation changing the shape of journalism: software that reads news articles. Kalev Leetaru of the University of Illinois determined that using the Nautilus SGI supercomputer to [...]
