Feb 27 2009

Hello??? …..Are you there???? Hellooo…..

Posted by Atasha as Blogroll, Bluetooth, Cheat Codes, Computer Peripherals, Gadzooki News, Games, Portable Media Players, Robotics

Some call them mobile phones others cellular phones or cell phones for short(geez.. four letters???!!!??), whatever you'd want to call them they're the best solution to our never ending need for communicating along with the lust for gizmos and gadgets. Analog phones started as mere telephones without wires that worked on closed networks with batteries as large as a suitcase. When it went digital, the magic began when Nokia unknowingly included a free service programmed within their phones called SMS or texting to some. People, the ever curious creatures we are, discovered this and went on texting sprees that topped calls these technological wonders were supposed to do....

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Jun 16 2008

Robotic chair for the library

Posted by Jim as Cool Stuff, Furniture, Robotics

Ok, I tried to ignore this post from DVice, until I saw that tech blogs I follow are now giving it the limelight it deserves (?). I think it's not a big "thing" but after pondering my thoughts a bit, hey this might really have some relevance in the world geeks live in. Answer me this question, sure geeks and books are closely knit... "but do you still find geeks in the physical library?" and "do they need a 'gadget' to follow them around?". I'm answering a big fat "YES!". Geeks still do the library route, and when they do, they need that first class seat that shouts "Geek's ass here!" (pun intended). It's a robot chair designed ...

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Aug 15 2007

Geek Stuff

Posted by Jaren as Blogroll, Gadgets, Robotics

What fun way to mix toy building and computers. I remember when I was a kid I had a LEGO set, that you can put a motor on it to make it run. heheh.. now this geek's wish has come true. I recently ordered a Robot kit the one in the picture and now i'm anxiously waiting for it. A remote camera robot, this cute little thing is survelliance robot on its way to its black ops mission, or another trip to mars. From Thinkgeek... Hardware Specifications Robot moves at 20cm - 40cm /second (about 1/2 mile/hour or 1 ft/sec) with variable speed control and differential steering 60MIPS ARM7TDMI 32-bit processor ...

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Aug 02 2006

First Pics of Lockheed’s Nano Air Vehicle

Posted by Geezer as Gadgets, Robotics, Science

Dubbed the Nano Air Vehicle, or NAV, Lockheed's latest project for the military is going small. Real small. As in nano-small.

As I predicted in my Future of Tech article, major tech innovations come by way of necessity, not luxury. We're immersed in this long fight with fanaticism, but we've got a military that's geared towards fighting nation states not dynamic terrorist groups. In an obvious move, we're developing more agile weapons that can target the bad guys with surgical precision without harming innocent nation states. Too bad Israel doesn't have weapons like this right now. The prototype images of Lockheed's Nano Air Vehicle show that it is designed after ...

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Jul 11 2006

The Uncanny Valley

Posted by The Deuce as Gadgets, Gaming, Robotics, Tech News

There's an interesting article by Carrie Gouskos over at Gamespot about the "uncanny valley", a term borrowed from a 1970 article by Japanese roboticist Masahiro Mori, in the magazine Energy (Japan's robot-enthusiasm goes back quite a ways). Mori measured the positivity of people's responses to being exposed to robots with differing levels of human visual and behavioral resemblance. This degree of comfort with a human likeness is referred to as "familiarity". What Mori noted is that as an automaton becomes more human-like, the level of familiarity rises, as you would expect. However, at some point, before reaching near-perfect human approximation, there is a place where it goes from "cute representation" to "soulless and unsettling mockery of humanity", causing the level of familiarity to bottom out, before rising back up again. This was represented as a steep valley in Mori's graph, the area where a something has an eerily close (ie uncanny) resemblance to humans, hence the "uncanny valley".

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Jan 17 2006

Robosapien RS2

Posted by Ben as CES 2006, Robotics

At the 2006 CES (Consumer Electronics Show) in Las Vegas, WowWee revealed the three newest members of the Robosapien series. One of which was the Robosapien RS2 Media (picture right), the newer brother of the Robosapien V2. The next generation RS2 is set for release around the last quarter of 2006, and sports a LCD display on the torso, USB port and memory card. The 320x160 screen displays video from the robots helmet camera, captured in MPEG4, and saved onto the memory card. The RS2 Robot has evolved and now allows motion capture and voice recordings to be saved to the memory card. Which can be further controlled via computer editing software, in order to sync both ...

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