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Saturn on an acid trip

Posted July 26, 2013 - 9:21 am

A film editor has assembled more than 200,000 photos from the Cassini probe to make a short video of Saturn's rings.
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How to wash your hair in space: A video primer

Posted July 12, 2013 - 10:32 am

Traveling in space should not preclude personal hygiene, as NASA astronaut Karen Nyberg demonstrates in this video.
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The crazy, creepy world of Google Glass imagined

Posted May 23, 2013 - 1:51 pm

Is this what we have to look forward to once Google Glass is everywhere?
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Can Star Trek save Windows 8?

Posted April 23, 2013 - 10:46 am

New notebook aims to appeal to Trek fans - it's a sci-fi computer!
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Nagaina robot snake slivers at the Robot Block Party

Posted April 11, 2013 - 8:53 pm

Stanford University's Robot Block Party got a preview of a robotic snake that will be on show at the upcoming Maker Faire.
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Skully, Rocky and homebrew robotics

Posted April 11, 2013 - 8:50 pm

A Homebrew Robotics Club member was at Stanford University's Robot Block Party to show off his robots
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Fly-by-brain with the mind-controlled helicopter

Posted April 11, 2013 - 8:42 pm

Forget the buttons and joysticks. A company has developed a mind-controlled robo-copter that takes to the skies with just a little thought.
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Turtlebot II will follow you, bring you drinks thanks to Xbox Kinect

Posted April 11, 2013 - 8:34 pm

The Turtlebot II robot is a robotics development platform running the ROS open source robot OS. Within minutes, users can get the robot to move, follow them around and map their homes, the makers say.
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Hey Space, enough with the meteors already!

Posted March 23, 2013 - 11:06 am

Video cameras capture yet another meteor falling from space Friday night along the East Coast.
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Control a PC with your eyes

Posted January 25, 2013 - 3:25 pm

Researchers at Fujitsu have developed a small, low-cost eye-tracking system that offers new ways to scroll around PC screens.
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Watch this NASA video of an asteroid passing near Earth

Posted December 14, 2012 - 6:24 pm

NASA made a short video clip of the asteroid Toutatis, which this week came 4.3 million miles from Earth on its journey around the Sun.
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Aboard the Navy's first hybrid amphibious assault ship

Posted October 19, 2012 - 4:05 pm

During San Francisco's Fleet Week, we got a behind-the-scenes look at what makes the Navy's first hybrid assault vessel run.
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Lenovo ThinkPad Tablet 2 runs Intel, not ARM processor

Posted August 9, 2012 - 1:38 pm

The ThinkPad Tablet 2 will have Intel’s new Atom processor rather than an ARM chip like tablets from Acer and Asusl. Lenovo said it wanted backward compatibility with software that runs on previous version of Windows.
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Canon shows augmented-reality platform with head-mounted displays

Posted June 28, 2012 - 10:48 am

The company will target the platform at manufacturers in Japan initially, then expand abroad
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Intel Labs focused on realistic 3D avatar simulation at anniversary event

Posted June 27, 2012 - 2:40 pm

Research at Intel celebrates 10 years, announces more academic partnerships
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First class of hardware accelerator designers unleashes robots, gadgets in San Francisco

Posted June 21, 2012 - 9:50 am

Nine companies went through a 111-day mentorship and training that sent them to China, called HAXLR8R. Many have fundraising pages on kickstarter to get their gadgets into production.
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Sharp's new robot vacuum talks back, takes pictures, streams video to your phone via Wi-Fi

Posted May 8, 2012 - 9:19 pm

The "Cocorobo" navigates with three ultrasonic sensors and includes Sharp's Plasmacluster air filtering technology.
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ZeroTouch turns any screen into touchscreen, ready for sale

Posted May 8, 2012 - 9:14 pm

The relatively inexpensive technology can scale to 55 inches or larger and is moving towards commercialization.
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Dual View displays two images on a single screen

Posted May 8, 2012 - 8:54 pm

When you tilt your laptop screen the colors change. It’s that bug that one researcher has turned into a feature.
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Boeing 787 Dreamliner offers more space, smoother ride, high tech improvements

Posted March 6, 2012 - 3:38 pm

Boeing’s newest aircraft the 787 Dreamliner landed in Boston Sunday and kicked off the U.S. leg of its global tour. Japan Airlines plans to offer nonstop service with the 787 from Boston to Tokyo starting in April.
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William Shatner talks microchips in this 1976 film

Posted March 1, 2012 - 12:50 pm

Join the voyage of learning about microprocessors with Captain Kirk.
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Dell video produces giant WTF moment

Posted February 22, 2012 - 12:51 pm

Is this Dell video a parody, a prank or something more sinister? Or just a case where someone thought it would be cool and it's a massive backfire (watch the video to understand this awesome pun).
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CES 2012: Justin Bieber unveils a dancing robot

Posted January 12, 2012 - 12:10 pm

The MRobo is designed as a speaker that can also dance to music uploaded from a USB. But the company proved to be not quite ready for prime-time for its announcement, with at least three microphone failures, and one screen failure that Justin was supposed to turn on, to start a video of the dancing robot.
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CES 2012: HP Envy 14 Spectre up close

Posted January 11, 2012 - 5:43 pm

At CES 2012, HP was showing off its new Envy 14 Spectre, a high-end ultrabook. Keith Shaw gets a closer look at the new notebook.
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CES 2012: HzO waterproofs phones' electronics

Posted January 11, 2012 - 5:35 pm

Rather than create a waterproof case, HzO opens up the devcies and waterproofs the internal components. The device can even fill up with water and continue to work.
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