Posts Tagged technology
Flipboard – The iPad Revolution
Flipboard is the world’s first social magazine. Designed from the ground up for iPad, Flipboard creates a magazine out of a userʼs social content. Simply launch Flipboard and “flip” open the cover to get started. From the Table of Contents readers can view their sections and personalize the magazine.
Peter vs. Robot
CBC’s Peter Armstrong tries to interview a robot on CBC Radio’s As It Happens. Hilarity ensues.
Science: Interview With a Robot
National correspondent Amy Harmon sits down to talk with the Bina48 about what it’s like to be a robot. Related Link: nyti.ms
Terrafugia Transition – First Flight Video Press Release
A Video News Release of the first flight of the Terrafugia Transition.
First Flight: “Flying Car” Terrafugia Transition Roadable Aircraft
Not a flying car, but a roadable aircraft, the Terrafugia Transition took flight for the first time March 5, 2009. Visit www.avweb.com and search for “Terrafugia” for more. Video by Glenn Pew http
ABB Robotics – Picking pancakes
ABB Robots installed by RG Luma are helping specialist food company Honeytop to speed up its pancake production and improve health, safety & hygiene. William Eid a director of Honeytop comments “This is our first investment in robotics technology and we have not experienced a single issue sincethe installation 6 months ago”
Robot Chef
Robot chefs take center stage at Japan’s Food Machinery and Technology Expo 2009.
Modular Snake Robot Pipes
www.modsnake.com This is a demonstration of how the snake can inspect weld joints.
ABB Robotics – Safe human robot interaction – SafeMove
The working areas of people and robots have traditionally been seperated by fences thereby preventing any form of collaboration.
Robot Fish
A robotic fish developed by scientists from Essex University is put through its paces in a special tank at the London Aquarium. It works via sensors and has autonomous navigational control. www.itnsource.com
Robots inspired by animals
Read more: www.newscientist.com Robotics researchers are increasingly turning to nature for inspiration. Watch a robotic salamander, a water strider robot, mechanical cockroaches and some cool self-configuring robots.
Robotics Industrial Robots Factory Automation KUKA Imagefilm
www.kukarobotics.com Official Image Advertisement Spot of German KUKA Robot Group. Supplier of industrial robots and factory automation systems for welding, handling and palletizing for manufacturing and production industry.
ABB Robotics – The FlexPendant HMI
Jim Kosmala of ABB Robotics USA talks you through what to look for when selecting a robot teach pendant. He compares the ABB FlexPendant ,with its patented joystick and touch screen, to the more traditional full keypad based teach pendants.
World Tech Update, June 17, 2010
On World Tech Update this week Sony announces pricing and availability of its Move motion controller, Microsoft rebrands Project Natal as Kinect for Xbox 360, Nintendo unveils the 3DS a 3D, portable gaming device, the AR.Drone helicopter gets pricing and a release date, hundreds of Apple fanatics queue in Tokyo to reserve an iPhone 4, pigs fly for Microsoft and a special contest from WTU! Find out what’s coming up on each week’s show by following us on Twitter (WorldTechUpdate) or check out our Facebook fan page at www.facebook.com/worldtechupdate
IBM Innovative 2010 Live Conference
IBM’S Innovate 2010 conference will help expand and deepen skills necessary for innovation. With over 350+ sessions across 18 technical tracks
Google TV is here
Google has just introduced one of its great technological developments for the immediate future: Google TV.
Zeitgeist Addendum – Watch Full Documentary Online
In Zeitgeist Addendum (2008), sequel to the documentary Zeitgeist, director Peter Joseph and the visionary designer Jaques Fresco propose an alternative to the current economic system: The Venus Project.
N-Viro
N-Viro International Corporation is an innovative company specializing in renewable energy and green technologies . N-viro unique mission is to transform waste to energy, altering waste products into a beneficial fertilizer or a renewable, green alternative fuel. N-viro develops and licenses its technology to municipalities and private companies. Their patented processes use lime and/or mineral-rich, [...]
Personal Robots
Cynthia Breazeal’s eminently charming and huggable creatures appear to have stepped out of Santa’s North Pole workshop. But Breazeal wants you to know that her robots are attempts to create socially intelligent machines “whose behaviors are governed not just by physics but by having a mind,” and which might someday collaborate with humans in critical [...]
Google preparing TV Search Service
Google is testing a new television-programming search service in partnership with Dish Network Corp., according to people familiar with the matter, the latest development in a fast-moving race to combine Internet content with conventional TV. The search results thrown up by the search will also include programme and episode information like channel, date and time. [...]
LifeLock Identity Theft Protection
LifeLock provides a proactive identity theft service, specializing in the prevention of identity theft rather than the reporting of it. Lifelock Identify Theft Protection services provide you early notification of identity threats, search the web for the illegal selling of your information, help cancel and replace the contents of your lost or stolen wallet, verify [...]
Drupal Gardens
Drupal Gardens is a content management & social publishing system equipped with multi-user blogging, commenting, forums and website content creation and user management features. Simplify site building with pre-packaged socially powered templates. Choose from several beautifully designed themes to accelerate time to market. All themes support point-and-click control over fonts, colors, layout and brand attributes. [...]
The Twitter Story
Video of Twitter development process Twitter Code Swarm from Ben Sandofsky on Vimeo.
Watch The Apple Tablet (iPad) Event
Apple CEO Steve Jobs shows off the new iPad, a tablet device to be released that features multi-touch interaction with multimedia formats and existing iPhone OS apps. The device incorporates an LED-backlit 9.7-inch (25 cm) multi-touch in-plane switching display running at XGA resolution. First Reactions: iPad examined by technology experts.
Kindle DX Wireless Reading Device
The latest generation of Ebook readers is here: Kindle DX utilizing the latest in electronic-ink display technology providing a crisp black-and-white 9.7-inch diagonal screen with the same appearance and readability of printed paper. Sharp and natural with no glare or backlight, reading on Kindle DX is nothing like reading from a computer screen. Kindle DX [...]
Xshot telescopic camera extender
The Xshot! is a lightweight, telescopic camera extender that holds your camera at a distance to capture great pictures and films when no one is around to take your picture. The XShot extends over 3 feet (37″) to capture the subjects and the background or a group shot. It closes to just 9 inches and [...]
Nexus One – Google Mobile Phone
The Nexus One is a new smartphone created by Google that will run the Android mobile operating system. The device is being manufactured by HTC and will be released in 2010. the Nexus One runs on the blazing fast Snapdragon processor and has a 3.7 inch WVGA AMOLED touchscreen display, Wi-Fi, Google Navigation, Google Goggles [...]
BT Broadband Service – Benefits of next generation access
Entrepreneur Peter Jones discusses the benefits of next generation access Peter Jones discusses the business benefits of Next Generation Access to businesses including his own business. In the video, Peter takes about faster download time, increased efficiencies, cloud computing and better remote working.
Encrypt Stick
The EncryptStick software application, utilizes 512-bit Polymorphic Encryption. It’s the most advanced portable security application available on the market today. Encrypt Stick allows you to turn any serial numbered USB flash drive into an encrypted vault. EncryptStick gives them the ability to create unlimited invisible encrypted vaults (Folders) on an unlimited number of laptops, PC’s, [...]
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