Sony's Qrio robot attending nursery school in California: TOKYO — Qrio, a humanoid robot developed by a Sony Intelligence Dynamics Laboratories Inc has been attending a nursery school in California since March to play with children up to 2 years of age in an experiment to help develop a robot that ...
Somebody hacked my old Amiga screen
A friend put this huge switch (with a light a feedback to remind you that it's switched on or off) on my old Amiga screen: ...
A 3D projection console?
Interesting rumor by gamespot: The Nintendo Revolution will feature 3D projection This week saw some new rumors about Nintendo's next-generation console surface. The most interesting of these came from Burgess, who has long-standing ties to Nintendo. In his blog, he reflected on attending the ShoWe...
Cheap interface: the alien motion tracker
This replica of the Alien motion tracker is nice. The interface is a very simple RADAR-like display. It would be great to run some tests with this kind of stuff ;) ...
Single-handed keyboard
A compelling device for single-handed users: Maltron's single-handed keyboard: The special shape and letter layout have been very carefully planned, taking into account the limited number of keys that can be accessed quickly and comfortably. Single handed MALTRON keyboard in use, plus left-handed k...
"Geocollaboration"
(via), this project seems interesting with regard to our research goals: Geocollaboration using Peer-Peer GIS. We're exactly in this geocollaboration topic: The Penn State researchers define the activity of geocollaboration as a group working together to solve geographic problems facilitated by geo...
\"Geocollaboration\"
(via), this project seems interesting with regard to our research goals: Geocollaboration using Peer-Peer GIS. We're exactly in this geocollaboration topic: The Penn State researchers define the activity of geocollaboration as a group working together to solve geographic problems facilitated by geo...
An interesting remote control (1957)
I really like this remote control: The fact that the button are so huge is interesting, people really have something to manipulate here. ...
A cell phone to shut down tvs (cell phone b-gone)
(via) Some people thought that the tv b-gone (this device that allows you to turn off virtually any remotely-controlled television) was too easy to spot. That's why geeks disguised this product into a cell phone: I was at a sports bar having lunch with some co-workers one day, and we were passing ...
Snail mail versus ADSL
After the pigeon-empowered internet, the same group of israelian geeks moved forward on the battle snail mail/email by showing that snails could be faster than ADSL: The system called SNAP (SNAil-based data transfer Protocol), uses biological carriers, and, for the first time, taking advantages of ...