Archive for February 2011
M1 Mobile Manipulator Robot: The Real Johnny 5
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The M1 Mobile Manipulator robot is made by Meka Robotics, a San Francisco company which got started by MIT roboticists. The robot plans to be worth more than the sum of its parts and it slightly reminds me of Johnny 5 from Short Circuit…. |
February 19th, 2011
Potential Cure for Baldness Discovered by Accident
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OK chrome-domes, listen up. This will make your day. A potential cure for baldness has been discovered – purely by accident. Apparently, the researchers that happened on the possible cure were researching a new treatment for gastrointestinal disease. The treatment was being studied in mice when the discovery that it… |
February 19th, 2011
Scosche goBAT II Portable Battery Charger Juices USB Gadgets on the Go
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I really like my iPhone, and the iPhone 4 certainly has better life than the iPhone 3GS did, but there are still times where I need more run time. Scosche has announced a new portable battery pack called the goBAT II that is now shipping for about $90 (USD).… |
February 19th, 2011
DARPA-Commissioned Robotic Hummingbird Takes to the Air
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When I think about DARPA building robots, I envision something along the line of the Terminator or Johnny 5. That isn’t what DARPA has in mind though (at least in this project) as one of its projects has hit the prototype operation phase.… |
February 18th, 2011
Thermobility Wireless Power Generator Makes Power from Heat
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Don’t look now, coppertop, but the Matrix has you. A company called Thermobility has unveiled a power generator for mobile devices that makes power from heat. The little device is aimed at low-power applications and is the size of a golf ball right now.… |
February 18th, 2011
NYT Says No to iPhone nano
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Anyone that has an iPhone or has used one going all the way back to the original will tell you that the touchscreen device can be hard to use in some instances because the buttons on the screen can be hard to touch. Each time rumors of the iPhone nano… |
February 18th, 2011
WheelSurf Monocycle: Drive Inside the Wheel
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Monocycles are quite popular in science fiction, cartoons and video games – General Grievous drove one, and the world of Gantz… also had huge and menacing ones – but I never thought there were actually ones for sale until I read about the WheelSurf. As with its fictional counterparts, you |
February 18th, 2011
LEGO Tow Truck: The Big Brick Rig
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This amazingly detailed tow truck was built by LEGO enthusiast Paul aka Sariel. Thanks to a whopping 17 electric motors, the truck has a lot of moving parts and lights and is therefore very functional – of course I’m using the term relatively here, but if you happen to know… |
February 18th, 2011
Pimp My AT-AT
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The Empire’s Imperial Walkers were always awesome, there’s no denying it. Thankfully, I’m not the only one who thinks so. But designer Steven Anderson has come up with a few different designs to make them look a bit cooler as they stomp. That drab, gray paint job didn’t really do… |
February 18th, 2011
Rubik’s Brain Cube is Abby Normal
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Artist Jason Freeny knows his anatomy. Now he’s taken his biological skills and applied them to the creation of the single greatest Rubik’s Cube ever. The Brain Cube.… |
February 17th, 2011
