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Cory Doctorow’s Makers, Part 14 (of 81) - (USA)
Illustration by Idiots’Books Perry’s funny eyebrow twitched as he counted out the day’s take. This gig was all cream, all profit. His overheads amounted to a couple hundred a month to Jason and his crew to help with the robot and machinery maintenance in the Wal-Mart, half that to some of the shantytown girls to dust and sweep after closing, and a retainer to a bangbanger pack that ran security at the ride and in the market. Plus he got the market-stall rents, and so when the day was over
http://www.tor.com/?id=49698&option=com_content&view=blog
Be careful: Terminators might cook you! - (USA)
Quick, without conversation and without errors. It would be nice to be hungry and be well served by a chef. In Nagoya , Japan, this is already happening in a restaurant whose food is prepared and served by a pair of robots built specifically for this purpose. In the restaurant FUA-Men – Fully Automated Ramen – you can make requests via a touch screen directly to robots that prepare lámen in minutes (traditional Japanese food ). The robots of the restaurant do not seem in any way with
http://trendsupdates.com/be-careful-terminators-might-cook-you/
Solarbotics - (USA)
http://www.solarbotics.com/
Technology: Utopia or Disaster? - (USA)
Lately the world has been speeding up. People barely have enough minutes in the day to do what is asked of them. Technology is doubling it’s capacity every two years and therefore our society needs to begin to cope with this rapid development. School systems are old and out-dated while we expect students to be up to date on current affairs and worldly happeninings. The largest growing career now is in computers. Some have a belief that one day the internet will be integrated into our psychies.
http://scienceray.com/philosophy-of-science/technology-utopia-or-disaster/
GM Envisions Driverless Cars on Horizon - (USA)
PhysOrg news: GM Envisions Driverless Cars on Horizon
http://physorg.com/news118904316.html
Who’s Afraid of Smart Machines? - (USA)
On top of the discussion about robo-ethicists wanting to revisit Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics I saw several pointers to a New York Times article called Scientists Worry Machines May Outsmart Man . Will we have thinking machines that are self-aware and smarter than humans? One of the famous papers on this is The Coming Technological Singularity: How to Survive in the Post-Human Era by Vernor Vinge. Vinge postulates that by the year 2030 we will see “the imminent creation by technology of en
http://blogs.msdn.com/alfredth/archive/2009/07/28/who-s-afraid-of-smart-machines.aspx
VFXWorld.com - Printer Friendly Version - (USA)
http://mag.awn.com/article_view.php?id=3632&site=vfxw&page=all&img=true
A High-Five For High-K Reinvented Transistors - (USA)
Today marks a major milestone: the one-year anniversary of shipping the world’s first ever Intel processors manufactured on our 45 nanometer process—based on an entirely new ‘high-k metal gate’ transistor formula. And what a year it has been for this manufacturing and uniquely-flavored transistor combo Intel’s transistor formula infuses the element Hafnium with Silicon and other ingredients to reduce the electricity leakage that comes from the tens of millions of transistors inside our pro
http://blogs.intel.com/technology/2008/11/high-ks_first_birthday_why_int.php
Blame Barack? Consumer’s Tapping Out, The Google and Apple Stocks of Tomorrow, and More! - (USA)
by Addison Wiggin & Ian Mathias Markets plummet post-election… blame Barack? Retail sales sink… consumer not just pulling back, but changing habits John Williams with an important data point due for a “big hit” Dan Denning on an immanent Obama policy that could give your investments a boost Wish you bought Apple in 1990? Pat Cox with the next transformational industry set to soar If markets of the world declared, “Yes we can!” Tuesday, they were grumbling, “Er… maybe n
http://www.agorafinancial.com/5min/blame-barack-consumers-tapping-out-the-google-and-apple-stocks-of-tomorrow-and-more/
Remake your world with Claytronics - (USA)
Researchers at MIT and Carnegie Mellon are developing programmable matter: material consisting of tiny machines that can be reconfigured into many different shapes: How can a material be intelligent? By being made up of particle-sized machines . At Carnegie Mellon, with support from Intel, the project is called Claytronics. The idea is simple: make basic computers housed in tiny spheres that can connect to each other and rearrange themselves. … Wach particle, called a Claytronics atom or C
http://futurismic.com/2009/07/27/remake-your-world-with-claytronics/
Robots may come to aging boomers' rescue (HealthDay) - (USA)
Robots may come to aging boomers' rescue (HealthDay) By admin | November 18, 2008 TUESDAY, Nov. 18 (HealthDay News) — In the not-so-distant future, American seniors may turn to helpful, uncomplaining robots to fill the worrisome "care gap" that many face today. One of these autonomous devices, called the uBOT-5, is already capable of carrying out simple tasks while it monitors the home environment. The robot can even spot trouble — such as a person falling down — and call 911 if necess
http://www.latest-breaking-news-trends.com/health-news/robots-may-come-to-aging-boomers-rescue-healthday
West Michigan Geek-a-Thon - (USA)
Marie-Claire Camp, of ellohay!, sent us word of this upcoming event: The Geek-a-thon is ellohay! West Michigan's first annual install-fest. This evening event will bring geeks from all over the area together to help prepare 100 computers to be given away, free of charge, to at-risk and impoverished high school students in Grand Rapids. ellohay! is expecting approximately 100 guests for an evening of games, robotics demonstrations, food and drinks. Admission is free and open to the public
http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2009/08/west_michigan_geek-a-thon.html?CMP=OTC-0D6B48984890
Nintendo Wii Speak Microphone Available Now To Pre-Order [Release Set For 16 November] - (USA)
Nintendo’s latest accessory for its ever popular Wii gaming console, the Nintendo Wii Speak Microphone – which will allow Wii users with net access who have passed each other ‘Friend Codes’ to converse via Nintendo’s Wii Speak channel - has just become available for pre-order either as a stand-alone item or bundled with Animal Crossing: Let’s Go To The City (the first Wii Speak compatible title). Consisting, in essence, of a microphone that is designed to sit atop your television, or in any
http://nexus404.com/Blog/2008/11/09/nintendo-wii-speak-microphone-available-now-pre-order-release-set-for-16-november/
OOPic Home Page - (USA)
http://www.oopic.com/
Sentry Gun - (USA)
http://www.usmechatronics.com/old_page/turret.htm
The divisions of philosophy - (USA)
David Chalmers at Fragments of Consciousness is attempting a taxonomy of philosophy (what us Thomists would call a "division" or "system of classification of philosophy). You can find the monstrosity he is currently working on here. I don't call this a monstrosity in the pejorative sense of that word, I mean it in its literal sense: something frightening in size or complexity. Compare the unwieldy thing he is trying to get a grip on, which, I kid you not, has got to be about 50 pages long, to t
http://vereloqui.blogspot.com/2008/11/david-chalmers-at-fragments-of.html
[Contest Entry] Gepetto - Trossen Robotics Community - (USA)
[Contest Entry] Gepetto Project Showcase
http://forums.trossenrobotics.com/showthread.php?t=1439
IT Revolution, Marketing History and Online Marketing - (USA)
IT Revolution, Marketing History and Online Marketing Posted in November 8th, 2008 Category:Internet Marketing The IT Revolution is at hand. It’s been here since the 50’s and will stay here as long as humans are living. Before, IT is only associated with computers. Now, IT extends its services to other branches like Medicine, Robotics, Banking, and a lot more. Marketing, a small branch of commerce, was able to extend [...]
http://www.e-bizdir.com/it-revolution-marketing-history-and-online-marketing.html
Robots Could Replace Teachers - (USA)
LiveScience | Jul 16, 2009 By Robin Lloyd In the future, more and more of us will learn from social robots, especially kids learning pre-school skills and students of all ages studying a new language. This is just one of the scenarios sketched in a review essay that looks at a “new science of learning,” which brings together recent findings from the fields of psychology, neuroscience, machine learning and education. The essay, published in the July 17 issue of the journal Science, o
http://aftermathnews.wordpress.com/2009/07/18/robots-could-replace-teachers/
What is Blogging? – Find Out Today - (USA)
Do you have lots of ideas that you would like to share to other people? Do you have comments about certain issues that you want to share to others? Maybe you have found new ideas that you would like to teach to others? Do you love to write articles that you want many people to read? If your answer to one or all of the questions is yes then blogging is for you. What is blogging? Generally, blogging is described as a way of writing about something that you want other people to read over the intern
http://totallypassive.com/what-is-blogging-%e2%80%93-find-out-today/
The Hong Kong Science Museum - (USA)
 The Hong Kong Science Museum is worth a visit while you are in Kowloon, near Tsim Sha Tsui in Hong Kong. The experience will be doubly worth it if you have children accompanying you. Located adjacent to the Hong Kong Museum of History, the science museum houses several exhibitions, simulation areas and displays, which both adults and kids can enjoy leisurely. The permanent exhibition includes approximately 500 exhibits and provides intriguing insights into the mysteries that make up the wo
http://www.mygr8blog.com/business/the-hong-kong-science-museum/
Nitro Models RC Planes RC Airplanes, Nitro, Gas, Electric, ARF, RTF, RC Helicopters, Brushless and L - (USA)
http://www.nitroplanes.com/
Mike's Lego Pages - (USA)
MLCad LEGO Cad Software
http://www.lm-software.com/mlcad/
CNCzone.com-Machinist Community Forums - Welcome Page - (USA)
The Ultimate Discussion forum for CNC, metal working machines, lathes, vertical milling, CAD/CAM software, hobbyCNC, wood routers, EDM, electronics,metal work and Free Buying and Selling!
http://www.cnczone.com/
SparkFun Electronics - (USA)
http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/categories.php
Etch A Sketch Clock by angelabuilds -- Revver Online Video Sharing Network - (USA)
A video by angelabuilds - I built this Etch-A-Sketch (http://angelayuan.com/build.htm) to draw out the time and then erase itself every minute. It was built on the Arduino platform and references several projects/sites including Ferguson's CNC Etch-A-Sketch and Jones on Steppers
http://www.revver.com/video/719432/etch-a-sketch-clock/
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