LG is launching a 55 inch OLED television with a screen described as “the thickness of three credit cards.” However, the launch appears to be as much about beating rivals to the punch as a serious commercial proposition. The screens will cost 11 million won, which is equivalent to just over US$10,000. It’s probably going […]
The last survivor of the group of codebreakers who cracked a German cipher machine in the second world war has been honored by the Queen. Jerry Roberts has accepted the MBE (Member of the Order of the British Empire) award but is still campaigning for his colleagues to be recognized in the same way. Roberts, […]
The HyTAQ robot has been developed in the Robotics Lab at Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), part of the Mechanical, Materials, and Aerospace Engineering Department. It is a novel mobile robot capable of both aerial and terrestrial locomotion. Flight is achieved through a quadrotor configuration; four actuators provide the required thrust. Adding a rolling cage […]
That thing may be a little noisy, but hey, it can carry around 400 lbs of equipment everywhere it goes. The LS3 program seeks to demonstrate that a highly mobile, semi-autonomous legged robot can carry 400 lbs of a squad’s equipment, follow squad members through rugged terrain and interact with troops in a natural way […]
Poor Microsoft, I’m kind of sad for them right now. [Via]
Boeing has found a very low-tech method for testing a high-tech service: it’s used 20,000 pounds of potatoes to test Wi-Fi signals on planes. The bizarre sounding technique was necessary because the company wants to improve its Wi-Fi to make signal strength more consistent throughout a plane without it interfering with on-board electrical systems. Boeing […]
Computers will have the ability to mimic human senses in five years according to IBM. But not only is this more guesswork than informed forecast, but the way in which each sense will be incorporated varies hugely. The suggestion comes in IBM’s annual “5 in 5” report in which the company’s analysts come up with […]
The threat of either Apple or Samsung products being pulled from the shelves has largely faded away thanks to two key developments in the ongoing legal saga between the two. The first comes in the most high-profile case, the mutual lawsuits in the US that wound up with Apple getting a $1.05 billion judgment. Judge […]
NASA is planning to test an $11.2 million lighting system to try to better regulate astronaut’s body clocks. The technology could help studies into sleeping problems back on earth. The idea is to tackle the problem that natural light doesn’t follow usual patterns when you are in orbit. That means astronauts don’t sleep as much […]
A federal agency wants everyone convicted of drunk driving offenses to be forced to have a breathalyzer fitted to their vehicles. The National Transportation Safety Board says that current rules that make such set-ups mandatory in 17 states need to go nationwide. The NTSB made the recommendation after concluding a study looking at crashes between […]