He’s only cutting off the person’s hair, fortunately! The hair does count as the top of someone’s head, doesn’t it? The Multi-Arm UGV (Unmanned Ground Vehicle) demonstrates its dexterity by shaving a volunteer’s head to raise money for the St. Baldrick’s Foundation, a charity committed in funding research for finding a cure for childhood cancer. […]
In 1974 Arthur C. Clarke told the ABC that every household in 2001 will have a computer and be connected all over the world. Courtesy of Australian Broadcasting Corporation. [Via MUO]
Hey, that thing looks like Samus’s morph ball! The main goal of this project was to make a hexapod robot that could transform into a sphere shape and back. In “sphere mode” the robot should be able to roll freely like a ball. [Via]
Google has always been innovative and coming up with the future before we are ready for it. There was talk about a project featuring a device that would deliver the power of the internet in a wearable device and today I tripped over this video on Google’s channel that spills the beans on what they […]
A company offering what it bills as a flying car has completed a test flight using a full-scale prototype. Terrafugia says it has already received 100 orders for its $279,000 Transition vehicle. The vehicle, officially dubbed a roadable aircraft, can be used as a normal car running on regular unleaded fuel, and is legal to […]
[Photo Credit] I was at work the other day and my boss had to go to a client meeting, but also had to review a piece of work I had done for a different client before we sent it to them. She recently bought an iPad and I was like – duh, that’s a reason […]
From the makers of Big Dog, Pet Man, and Alpha Dog, here comes Boston Dynamics’ newest robot: Sand Flea. Sand Flea is an 11-lb robot with one trick up its sleeve: Normally it drives like an RC car, but when it needs to it can jump 30 feet into the air. An onboard stabilization system […]
I love my movies, and by association aside from being a movie geek, that also makes me a home theater geek, or an Audiophile. With the onset of each improvement in home theater technology I have to resist the urge to run out to the local big box electronics shop and indebt myself to their […]
She won’t be so happy when she finds out how inadequate it is…[Credit theunquietlibrarian] This be one for the Apple haters: Apple’s been attacked by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) for engaging in “conduct that was misleading or deceptive or likely to mislead or deceive.” How come? Because down in Aus, there’s no […]
Facebook and your privacy is trending once again among news sites and the blogosphere. This time, Facebook is doing something right. They recently amended their Statement of Rights and Responsibility to reflect a current change among employers asking for potential hires and employees access to their personal Facebook accounts. According to Facebook’s chief privacy officer, […]