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How To Make Robots More Social by Heather Knight
02 years ago
Awesome presentation, Genius beautiful woman. Need I say more? Heather Knight of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab tells us how she is working to make robots more social. (more…)
Waterproof, fireproof, and bombproof ioSafe hard drives
12 years ago
by Luis Carlos Ordoñez
in New Tech
This is great, it would certainly help to have one of these bad boys at work. Right now, we backup every night, alternating between two hard drive enclosures that get stored in our firesafe. This would eliminate the need to switch the backup nightly and just keep it going backing up. Watch the video where IoSafe sets fire to a hard drive enclosure, spray it with a fire hose, drop it from 20 feet, and then drive over it with a backhoe. Needless to say, the data survives. (more…)
Holy Taco! Best buy will sell iPads
12 years ago
by Luis Carlos Ordoñez
in New Tech
You want an iPad? You don’t have a credit card and can’t buy online? You don’t want to stand next to the rest of us sweaty nerds at the Apple Store? (more…)
Superfunny PlayStation Ad
02 years ago
This ad for the new PlayStation Move is super funny, ‘subtly’ making fun of the Wii and Project Natal. (more…)
Redefining ‘Silent Killers’
02 years ago
Imagine an Apache or a Cobra equipped with one of these rotor blades. Silent and Deadly comes to mind. blade-vortex interaction is the physical phenomenon that causes the ear piercing noise you hear when a helicopter is near. Eurocopter engineers have developed a new kind of rotor blade called Blue Edge that reduces the noise. The blades are beautiful one of those things where function follows form and not the other way around as it usually does. (more…)
Personal Jet Pack Anybody?
02 years ago
by Luis Carlos Ordoñez
in New Tech
Martin Aircraft Company, a New Zealand based business is looking to produce 500 packs per annum (giggity) and will sell them for £50,000 approximately.
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One more step to take over the world!
02 years ago
by Luis Carlos Ordoñez
in New Tech
Google can now sell energy!
The Federal Regulatory Energy Commission has granted Google Energy the right to behave like a utility. As of right now Google Energy can sell energy, capacity and services at market rates. It is scary how a single company has so much control over people’s lives. Just think about it, they have all the information about what you do online, what you buy, what you want to buy, they can read your emails, they have access to private documents, they can shut down your (virtual) life. (more…)