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Robot Riding Shotgun: Aida the in-Car Robot Companion
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Developed by researchers at MIT’s SENSEable City Lab in cooperation with Audi, AIDA (Affective Intelligent Driving Agent) is a drivers’ companion that offers useful information while interacting in a “socially appropriate and informative way.” AIDA will be mounted on a car’s dashboard, where it’s “face” will be visible to the… |
October 30th, 2009
Toys for Big Boys: iPhone Remote Controls Honda Civic, Blackberry Remote Controls F1 Car
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Man, these are smartphones indeed. The wise – and probably bored – folks at the University of Berlin made a one-of-a-kind iPhone app which they called iDriver, which allows them to control a Honda Civic via Wi-Fi. But it’s not like our German friends just coded the app and then… |
October 19th, 2009
Quad-Rotor Autonomous Helicopter Eschews Gps in Favor of Lasers. Laz0rz!
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Here’s another one of them MAVs that’ll soon be flying all over the place. A group of MIT students – Abe Bachrach, Anton de Winter, Ruije He, Garrett Hemann and Sam Prentice (I think I got +10 to my IQ after spelling their names) – developed an autonomous flight system… |
October 16th, 2009
Dishpointer Augmented Reality iPhone 3gs App Helps You Find Satellites With Ease
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Ever try to install a satellite dish? Speaking from personal experience, I can say that finding the right line-of-sight from the dish to the skies can be a real pain in the a$$. Now there’s a new app coming for the iPhone 3GS that could make satellite dish positioning just… |
August 28th, 2009
Nokia Booklet 3g Netbook Coming Soon, Looking Awesome
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If Apple does release a Tablet PC, fanboys would do well to thank Nokia, because the Finland handset maker was one of the first to come up with Mobile Internet Devices, or MIDs. Now they’re back in the realm of portable computing with the Booklet 3G, a 10-inch, 2.75 lb.… |
August 27th, 2009
Pronto4 Strap-on Kit Converts Vehicles Into Real Life (Non-Transforming) Autobots
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The Pronto4 strap-on kit from Utah-based Kairos Autonomi can turn any ordinary vehicle into an autonomous and unmanned one, able to follow waypoints and can go as fast as 90 mph. Of course, users also have the option to control their vehicles remotely. Wouldn’t it be awesome if we could… |
August 21st, 2009
Selfic Cube 7100: Like a Tiny Black Box Recorder for Your Car
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Nobody wants to get in a car crash. But if you have the misfortune of ending up in a fender-bender – or worse, wouldn’t you like to have a video documenting the entire thing for insurance or legal purposes? Well now you can, thanks to this little bit of modern… |
August 12th, 2009
Galaxy’S Thinnest Gps Unit Rendered Pretty Much Useless Thanks to Lack of Actual Gps Software
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The guys over at Chinavasion can always be relied on for bringing inexpensive and offbeat gadgetry from China to the rest of the world. The latest addition to their line of GPS devices claims to be the “Galaxy’s Thinnest GPS”. Measuring in at 13mm thick, this portable GPS is definitely… |
July 4th, 2009
Acer F1 Phone Powered by 1ghz Snapdragon Processor
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Acer displayed their first-ever phone, the tentatively named F1 at the ongoing Computex exhibition in Taiwan. You may be familiar with Acer’s obsession with Formula 1 racing, as they have made numerous tie-ins with the BAR-Honda and Ferrari teams. The F1 hopes to live up to its codename with the… |
June 4th, 2009
Tap Your Screen if You’Re Present: iPhone to Take Attendance in Japanese University
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If there’s one thing I can say about the Japanese, it’s that they’re weird. Now if there are two things I can say about the Japanese, then I say they’re weird and they’re quick to embrace technology. Case in point: beginning this June, Aoyama Gakuin University in Sagamihara city will… |
May 29th, 2009
