Technology

Robotic Surrogate Takes Your Place at Work

Robotic Surrogate Takes Your Place at Work Having one of those days where even a hearty bowl of Fruit Loops and Jack Daniels can't get you out of bed? A  telepresence   robot can come into the office for you, elevating telecommuting to a decidedly ne ...

Blog Post - Anonymous - Nov 18 2009 - 8:36am

Engineers Attempt To Generate Electricity From Ocean Waves

Virtually limitless sources of energy are everywhere. One such potential source is energy from ocean waves that could be used to generate electric power.  Yet as engineers test new technologies for capturing it, the devices are plagued by battering storms, ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 19 2009 - 7:57pm

A New Technology of Controling Robots!!!

Adding a new wrinkle to the 'droid versus iPhone debate, a project at Keio University in Tokyo have created iPhone software specifically designed to control androids. More specifically, they've created an interface that puts control of a humanoi ...

Blog Post - Anonymous - Nov 21 2009 - 7:13am

Robotic Arm Opens Doors For the Wheelchair Bound

For people confined to wheelchairs, the proliferation of ramps has greatly enhanced their mobility. Unfortunately, opening doors remains an omnipresent, and frustrating, challenge. Oddly enough, opening doors also presents a serious impediment for anthrop ...

Blog Post - Anonymous - Nov 25 2009 - 8:28am

IT Managed Services Provider Fifosys Honoured At Chelsea FC In 2010 Deloitte Fast Awards

LONDON, November 25 /PRNewswire/-- At an awards dinner held at Chelsea Football Club last night, London-based IT managed services provider was awarded membership of the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 for the EMEA region as part of a celebration attended by ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Oct 15 2018 - 9:48am

Robot Airplane on Mars!!!

<!--paging_filter--> Since budget cuts and the inability to overcome problems like boredom and high radiation doses have ruled out any manned mission to Mars in the foreseeable future, NASA has shifted gears back towards a program of robotic explora ...

Blog Post - Anonymous - Nov 25 2009 - 9:07pm

Supercomputing once for one, now for all

The article, "Supercomputing for the Masses," caught my eye. The key quote of the article, "Seven of the world’s top 10 supercomputers use standard chips from A.M.D. and Intel, as do about 90 percent of the 500 fastest machines. “I think thi ...

Blog Post - Sina Kashefipour - Nov 28 2009 - 11:28pm

Drones, Drones, and More Drones!

The use of pilotless drones are up 94% in 2008.  The flight hours graph is particularly enlightening; 400,000 hours logged for all of 2008 between the military services. I wonder what the numbers will be in 2009 and in 2010 as the United States escalates i ...

Blog Post - Sina Kashefipour - Dec 6 2009 - 9:46pm

OpenHazards Group Free Online Earthquake Forecasting Tool

DAVIS, California, December 7 /PRNewswire/-- Are you at risk from a large, damaging earthquake? A new online tool developed by OpenHazards Group, Inc., http://www.openhazards.com, quickly estimates the chances of a future earthquake and how much property ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Mar 24 2011 - 3:20pm

Insidious Imperialism! Creeping Colonization!

A meeting of the San Diego Software Industry Council. The subject: What will Web 3.0 look like? “Why don’t we know?” asked one venture capitalist. “Are we idiots?” The VC was pandering to an in-group audience. The implied answer was, No, we’re not idiots, ...

Article - Fred Phillips - Dec 14 2009 - 3:19pm