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Comments: 15 +-   Robo-Chefs and Fashion-Bots On Show In Tokyo on Friday November 27, @04:50AM

Posted by timothy on Friday November 27, @04:50AM
from the someone-will-need-to-nurse-the-elderly dept.
robot
avishere writes "The International Robot Exhibition kicked off this week in Tokyo, unveiling the latest whirring and buzzing inventions from 192 companies and 64 organizations from at home and abroad — an bringing humanity another step closer to irrelevancy. Among the humanoid cavalcade was a prototype robo-chef, showing off its cooking and cutting skills, along with robots to play with your children, model clothes and search for disaster victims. There was also one made almost exclusively of cardboard. The exhibition — which opened with a human-like robot called Nextage cutting the ribbon — runs until Saturday."
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Comments: 157 +-   The World's First Osmotic Power Plant on Thursday November 26, @10:18PM

Posted by timothy on Thursday November 26, @10:18PM
from the it-oozes-power-into-the-bucket dept.
power
ElectricSteve writes "Her Royal Highness Crown Princess Mette-Marit of Norway officially opened the world's first osmotic power plant prototype on November 24. The prototype has a limited production capacity and will be used primarily for testing and data validation, leading to the construction of a commercial power plant in a few years time. Statkraft claims that the technology has the global potential to generate clean, renewable energy equivalent to China's total electricity consumption in 2002 or half of the EU's total power production" What's osmotic power? Wikipedia to the rescue!
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Comments: 55 +-   Tokyo Students Design a New Robotic Muscle Suit on Wednesday November 25, @10:42PM

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday November 25, @10:42PM
from the we-can-make-it-better dept.
hardware
angry tapir writes "Students at Tokyo's University of Science have developed a new version of their muscle suit, a wearable robotic suit that assists the muscles when carrying out strenuous tasks. The original version of the suit, which has been in production for several years, provides assistance to the arms and back but the new version provides assistance to the back only. That means it is lighter and more compact than the original model."
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Comments: 316 +-   Man Pleads Guilty To Selling Fake Chips To US Navy on Wednesday November 25, @03:02PM

Posted by timothy on Wednesday November 25, @03:02PM
from the vinegar-was-ersatz-too dept.
military
itwbennett writes "Neil Felahy of Newport Coast, California, has pleaded guilty to conspiracy and counterfeit-goods trafficking for his role in a chip-counterfeiting scam. Felahy, along with his wife and her brother, operated several microchip brokerage companies under a variety of names, including MVP Micro, Red Hat Distributors, Force-One Electronics and Pentagon Components. 'They would buy counterfeit chips from China or else take legitimate chips, sand off the brand markings and melt the plastic casings with acid to make them appear to be of higher quality or a different brand,' the US Department of Justice said in a press release. The chips were then sold to Naval Sea Systems Command, the Washington, DC group responsible for maintaining the US Navy's ships and systems, as well as to an unnamed vacuum-cleaner manufacturer in the Midwest."
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Comments: 150 +-   Where Are Your Contact Lens Displays? on Wednesday November 25, @08:55AM

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday November 25, @08:55AM
from the we'll-use-them-as-huds-in-our-flying-cars dept.
displays
destinyland writes "'We already see a future in which the humble contact lens becomes a real platform, like the iPhone is today,' argues researcher Babak Parvis, 'with lots of developers contributing their ideas and inventions.' He provides an update on the contact lens with transparent circuitry that's being developed at the University of Washington. (Its components will eventually include hundreds of LEDs which form images in front of the eye such as charts and photographs). They've already developed a lens-with-LED prototype that's powered by 330 microwatts of wireless radio-frequency power, and believe the lenses could also be used as biosensors to deliver body chemistry readings (including blood sugar levels). But 'What we've done so far barely hints at what will soon be possible with this technology,' says Dr. Parviz."
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Comments: 146 +-   Giving Touch-Screen Buttons Depth and Height With Pneumatics on Tuesday November 24, @11:14AM

Posted by timothy on Tuesday November 24, @11:14AM
from the wait-for-pneumatic-spam dept.
inputdev
blee37 writes "Researchers at Carnegie Mellon demonstrate 'popping out' touch screen buttons to become physical buttons using pneumatics. The idea is to combine the dynamic reconfigurability of touch screen buttons with the tactile feedback of real buttons. The technology could be applied where tactile feedback is currently lacking, such as in car navigation systems, ATMs, or cell phones."
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Comments: 1 +-   Gakken Arduino Clone Spotted At Tokyo MAKE Meeting 04 on Tuesday November 24, @09:20AM

Posted by timothy on Tuesday November 24, @09:20AM
from the ubiquity-is-everywhere dept.
hardhack
Modellismo writes "During the Tokyo MAKE:Meeting 04 Gakken displayed the prototype of the Japanino (Arduino clone). It will be released next spring in the Otona no Kagaku (in Japanese it means 'Science toys for adults') magazine series with a Persistence of Vision plastic Toy with color LEDs. The price tag will be less than 3500 yen (ca$35) and it will make the Japanese Arduino scene the biggest in the world in a couple of months, as the magazine will probably sell what the original Arduino sold worldwide in the last years."
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Comments: 118 +-   Solar-Powered Plane Makes Runway Debut on Tuesday November 24, @02:52AM

Posted by timothy on Tuesday November 24, @02:52AM
from the endless-summer dept.
transportation
MikeChino writes "The much-hyped Solar Impulse airplane just completed its first runway test, paving the way for a 20-to-25-day trip around the world next year. Conceived by Bertrand Piccard, the single-pilot plane successfully used its four solar powered motors to taxi around the runway. If all goes according to plan the plane will be able to fly day and night without fuel, signaling a bright future for solar-powered flight."
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Comments: 254 +-   Apple vs. Microsoft Multi-Touch Mouse Comparison on Monday November 23, @10:53AM

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday November 23, @10:53AM
from the touch-me-baby dept.
inputdev
blee37 writes "This is a side-by-side comparison of the Apple and Microsoft multi-touch mice. It includes video demonstrations of using the mice in applications, first-person shooters and 3D manipulation. It also has new photos of the internals of all the mice."
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Comments: 82 +-   Australia's CSIRO To Launch CPU-GPU Supercomputer on Monday November 23, @04:40AM

Posted by timothy on Monday November 23, @04:40AM
from the ready-for-duke-nuken-forever dept.
supercomputing
bennyboy64 contributes this excerpt from CRN Australia: "The CSIRO will this week launch a new supercomputer which uses a cluster of GPUs [pictures] to gain a processing capacity that competes with supercomputers over twice its size. The supercomputer is one of the world's first to combine traditional CPUs with the more powerful GPUs. It features 100 Intel Xeon CPU chips and 50 Tesla GPU chips, connected to an 80 Terabyte Hitachi Data Systems network attached storage unit. CSIRO science applications have already seen 10-100x speedups on NVIDIA GPUs."
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