 Google to introduce its own PC? January 06, 2006 | User rating: 3.9 / 5 after 68 vote(s)
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In a move that will be seen as a direct challenge to Microsoft’s domination of the media business, Google Inc. is preparing to launch a low-price personal computer, reports the Los Angeles Times newspaper. | |
 IBM 3D TV November 11, 2005 | User rating: 3.7 / 5 after 69 vote(s)
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International Business Machines, a worldwide leader in technology innovation, has announced a new and affordable 3D video system that works with normal DLP (Digital Light Processing) televisions. Before now, ... | |
Future mobile phones may have 100GB memory September 12, 2005 | User rating: 2.9 / 5 after 21 vote(s)
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Mobile phones might one day have the memory capacity of a desktop computer thanks to a microchip that mimics the functioning of the brain. | |
 Robots Detect Behavioral Cues to Follow Humans August 21, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 24 vote(s)
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Robots can be ironic. Even though they might not have emotions of their own, they can still detect and respond to humans’ emotions. A recent study has shown that, by picking up on human emotional traits, as ... | |
 Sharp Unveils Solar-Powered TV July 04, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 39 vote(s)
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For the 1.6 billion people living in areas without utility-supplied electricity, Sharp has designed a TV that can get 100% of its power from the sun. The company plans to exhibit the 26-inch LCD prototype ... | |
 With Mini in vivo Robots, Anyone Can do Surgery February 05, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 66 vote(s)
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By attaching a millimeter-sized camera robot to a tether, scientists have designed a way to allow individuals with non-medical backgrounds to perform minimally invasive surgery in almost any location. Unlike ... | |
 Robot walks on water July 11, 2007 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 131 vote(s)
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Water striders, insects that walk on the surface of the water, may never set foot on land in their lives, and yet they’re not swimmers. Over the past million or so years, this insect—sometimes called a water ... | |
 Jumping robots take clues from nature July 06, 2007 | User rating: 3.9 / 5 after 31 vote(s)
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A group of mechanical engineers from the University of Bath has a peculiar interest in flying squirrels, fleas, and grasshoppers. Inspired by animals considered to be excellent jumpers, the researchers have ... | |
 Simplicity may be key to robotic self-reproduction June 05, 2007 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 45 vote(s)
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“Self-reproduction is one of the remarkable feats of biological systems which has remained largely outside the scope of capabilities of traditional engineered systems,” explains Victor Zykov and his colleagues ... | |
 Browse digital media by flipping through a book April 25, 2007 | User rating: 3.8 / 5 after 21 vote(s)
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As the amount of information on the Internet, TV and radio continues to increase, one of the challenges users face is how to quickly find what they're looking for. As Jun-ichiro Watanabe of Hitachi Ltd. researched ... | |
 Solar Plane to Fly Continuously Around Mars March 14, 2007 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 75 vote(s)
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Sky-Sailor, the working dream of a solar-powered, autonomously-controlled microairplane, has exciting implications in two areas: one on the technological advances of unmanned air vehicles (UAVs); and ... | |
 Robot builds itself for special tasks February 22, 2007 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 88 vote(s)
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In one of the latest studies on autonomous robots, scientists sat back and watched as their robot created itself out of smaller robotic modules. The result, called “swarm-bot,” comes in many varieties, depending ... | |
 Robot Discovers Itself, Adapts to Injury November 16, 2006 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 213 vote(s)
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Nothing can possibly go wrong ... go wrong ... go wrong ... The truth behind the old joke is that most robots are programmed with a fairly rigid "model" of what they and the world around them are like. If a ... | |
 New Honda Accord drives itself February 01, 2006 | User rating: 3.7 / 5 after 54 vote(s)
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Japanese car manufacturer Honda has launched a new self-driven car. Dubbed Honda Accord ADAS, the vehicle can change gear and steer itself around bends. While the auto-pilot function will currently only operate ... | |
 The New Laptops January 25, 2006 | User rating: 3.6 / 5 after 61 vote(s)
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It’s not your parent’s laptop: new models offer a wide range of different configurations for every need and taste. | |
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