While you are out enjoying your Labor Day festivities, keep an eye out for robot snakes in the trees. The CMU robotics lab has built a snake bot named Uncle Sam that can climb trees and poles. As you can see in the video after the break, the bot seems to have no problem at [...]
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The year is 1988, where a Russian engineer [Vladimir Demin] has combined a Bayan, or button accordion, with several (we lost count at about 96) solenoids. If that alone doesn’t blow your mind the computer, also hand built by [Vladimir], controls the whole process leaving the operator to only work the bellows. Putting truth to [...]
Just in time for the Labor Day weekend, we bring you the second installment of our web TV series BBQ&A. In this episode, oDesk CEO Gary Swart turned up the heat with a homemade feast fit for a Silicon Valley king. 
[Rob] has made an astounding contribution in the effort to keep our libations chilled. Not content with merely refrigerating his cold ones, or even putting them in a cooler full of ice, he has built a beer caddy out of solid ice. Though it may look simple initially, you can see from his writeup that [...]
While settling on a standard big data stack is deeply important to the big data industry as a whole, I’m nonetheless questioning the operational and competitive consequences for companies who choose to buy into this standard without first considering the value of building a proprietary solution.
From IFA in Berlin, a handout from Taiwan’s interestingly-named Ontop Technology, which was exhibiting a tablet. (I say “exhibiting” rather than “demonstrating” because it was turned off, and nobody at the booth seemed interested in powering it up.) I’m not sure why an iPad is shown here–is Ontop makes another tablet that looks exactly like [...]
You know that venerable rumor about Apple TV sets? Well, they’re here at the IFA tech show in Berlin. Sort of. What I’m trying to say is that I came across these flatscreens in one booth. Of course, this particular Apple TV is from weirdly-shaped TV specialist Hannspree, and it’s actually one of the company’s [...]
The collective groans of supervisors was heard this week as the successful Angry Birds game was released for Android. Samsung unveiled the Galaxy Tab this week, a competitor to the iPad. We took doubleTwist for a spin and found it to be iTunes for Android.
[Syst3mX] emailed us about his Binary Calculator earlier this week and it almost slipped into the depths of our inbox. Luckily We noticed it in there today and thought we’d share. He wanted to be able to calculate binary values without having to jump through hoops or boot up his computer, so he built his [...]
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