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IEEE Spectrum: Do-It-Yourself: An Automated BartenderThe folks at NYC Resistor, a hacker collective in Brooklyn, N.Y., have come up with an automated bartender based on Arduino, a collection of open-source hardware designs and software-development tools. The Barbot takes drink orders via an LED control panel, moving a glass from one filling ...
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Liveblog: Sony announces $399 7" Wi-Fi 3G e-book Reader; will it kill the Kindle? | Between the Lines | ZDNet.comWe’re here live in New York for Sony’s Reader press event. Note: This liveblog will be updated in reverse chronological order. Please scroll to the bottom to start from the beginning. 10:46 AM: That’s all, folks! 10:45 AM: Haber announces “Reader Daily Edition, our first 3G wireless reader ...
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The quietest Orange County Chopper yet: the electric Siemens Smart ChopperThe quietest Orange County Chopper yet: the electric Siemens Smart Chopper Paul Teutul Snr. cruises on the the Siemens Smart Chopper The beefy gents at Orange County Choppers have surprised us a few times before, going out of their normal raked-out design brief to customise a Ducati Monster ...
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robots.net - Tweenbots: Little Lost Robots Who Need Your HelpArtist Kacie Kinzer of the Tisch Interactive Telecommunications Program wanted to find out if typical New York pedestrians would help a little lost robot. So she built some little robots designed to need human intervention to reach their goal. She called these little robots Tweenbots. A ...
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Are greener gadgets even possible?: Scientific American BlogThe urge to buy the latest gadget and to reform environmental misbehavior may be the twin pillars of 21st century American youth culture, but can the two ever be reconciled? Apple, Dell, Intel, Nokia and others—companies with an array of "green" initiatives and (more) environmentally friendly ...
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IEEE Spectrum: Cyborg Moth Gets a New RadioCyborg Moth Gets a New Radio By Sally Adee 10 February 2009—Attempts by the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to create cybernetic insects (hybrids of biological and electronic bugs) have yielded ultralow-power radios to control the bugs’ flight and a method of powering ...
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New smartphones have built-in projectorsNEW YORK - Texas Instruments Inc. and Samsung Electronics on Friday unveiled smartphones embedded with chips that enable projection viewing — devices the companies say can project videos and images larger than 50 inches, depending on surrounding light. In a statement, the companies touted the ...
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Frankly Speaking: No. 1 rule for users: Keep it simpleA problem that arose in the Lehman-Barclays merger shows why users need to keep it simple [a possibly billions of dollars spreadsheet to PDF tranformation error!] In November, a federal judge in New York will decide whether to fix a user's spreadsheet error. Does that sound like overkill? Well, ...
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From Thrones to Robo-Commodes: The Pitfalls of Inventing a Better Toilet: Scientific AmericanRose George's book The Big Necessity: The Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why It Matters examines the ins and outs of sanitation; this excerpt explores the cutting edge of toilet technology - The flush toilet is a curious object. It is the default method of excreta disposal in most of ...
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Google Phone Unveiled, Can it Beat the iPhone? - ReadWriteWebToday, Google, T-Mobile, and HTC came together to introduce the first phone running the Google mobile OS, Android, at a press conference held this morning in New York City. The overall message today was one that focused on openness. Will the future of the mobile internet be driven by open ...
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