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Robonaut 2, better known as R2 finally arrived at the International Space Station last weekend after sitting packed aboard the space shuttle Discovery for more than four months. R2 is the first humanoid robot to make it into space and at this point he is still very much experimental. The astronauts have moved the [...] For those looking for more intelligent and thoughtful coverage of what is really going on in Egypt, Al Jazeera English is the place to go. Unfortunately, there isn’t a major cable company in the United States with the guts to carry the Qatar-based channel. However, thanks to modern streaming technology viewers can bypass the gate [...] At the age of 45, I’ve lived through an era where technological advancement is proceeding at such a rapid pace that numerous technologies have appeared and then completely vanished from the landscape before successive generations could be born. The telephone in its original incarnation went largely unchanged for the better part of a century. [...] For years now those of that are tired of paying exorbitant monthly fees to their cable providers to receive 100s of different channels have been clamoring for a la carte television service. The problem is that most of us typically only watch a tiny fraction of the available channels. In my household we never ever [...]
Last night Marty Linn, GM principal robotics engineer and Ron Diftler, NASA Johnson Space Center Robonaut project manager appeared on Dr Kiki’s Science Hour with R2. R2 is Robonaut 2, the dexterous humanoid robot created by GM and NASA. Marty and Ron spent a full hour talking with Dr Kiki about [...] Adam savage of the Mythbusters demonstrates yet again the ineffectiveness of American airport security theater. Like most frequent fliers Adam has a plan that he executes before heading off to the airport in order to minimize his hassle factor. For me that includes moving all loose change and other metallic items to my carry-on [...] When I first got a cell phone back in the mid-1990s, I only used it sparingly because the price plans will enormously expensive and the batteries didn’t last very long. Over time, though using a wireless device for voice communications became dramatically cheaper as providers started to offer plans with hundreds or thousands of [...] Several years ago the Ypsilanti Public Library starting offering its users access to downloadable audio books through a service called Netlibrary.com. Unfortunately that service was riddled with DRM that wasn’t compatible with anything but Windows computers and PlaysForSure media players. Anyone using an iPod or a Mac was out of luck. At least that service [...] |
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