Archive for August, 2008
Robotic Helicopters Learn New Tricks by Watching
A professor and his graduate students at Stanford have invented an artificial intelligence system that enables robotic helicopters to LEARN SOPHISTICATED NEW FLYING TRICKS BY WATCHING OTHER HELICOPTERS controlled by humans. considering of that learn-by-watching system, the Stanford copters can perform aerial maneuvers far more complex than any other robotic helicopter can. When does Skynet come online again?
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Gusav Sends Twitter Into the Mainstreamosphere
Don’t look now, but the microblogging site Twitter is going mainstream as you read that. The hurricane Gustav — with its urgent need of instant, broad-based data — has proved something of a “perfect storm” for Twitter. Tune in to CNN, and it’s likely they’ll be showing you a Twitter feed. Gustav is something of a “PERFECT STORM” FOR MICROBLOGGING as a medium in general and for Twitter in specific.
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Dubai Taxis, Police Cars Hybrid Within 4 Years
Dubai plans to move all taxis, government vehicls, police cars and ambulances to gas-electric HYBRIDS BY 2012.
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My Cell Phone-Based Exercise Program
Most busy professionals lack three vital things: 1) moment; 2) learning; and 3) exercise. considering we don’t have suitable of the first thing, we put off the second and third things for another day — a day that never comes. The aftereffect is that we’re less educated and less healthy than we want to be. My solution: MOBILE TECHNOLOGY.
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iPhone Factory Girl Freaked By Net Fame
I told you August 20 and 27 about the growing fame of the “iPhone Factory Girl.” A British iPhone buyer discovered several pictures on her brand-new iPhone. The photos were snapped inside the Chinese factory, and feature a smiling poser. The girl in the shots became a minor Net sensation when the pictures were posted on a popular Web site. But the girl is now reportedly “SCARED BY THE MEDIA ATTENTION.” Don’t distress, iPhone Factory Girl. It only lasts 15 minutes.
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Worst Cell Phone Handset Ever: Teddy Bear Phone
The Japanese wireless carrier Willcom unveiled its Kuma Phone handset concept — a $500 FULL SIZE TEDDY BEAR.
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