Scientists have created a way to control a robot with signals from a human brain.
By generating the proper brainwaves—picked up by a cap with electrodes that sense the signals and reflect a person’s instructions—scientists can instruct a humanoid robot to move to specific locations and pick up certain objects.
he commands are limited to moving forward, picking up one of two objects and bringing it to one of two locations. The researchers have achieved 94 percent accuracy between the thought commands and the robot’s movements.
“This is really a proof-of-concept demonstration,” said Rajesh Rao, a researcher from the University of Washington who leads the project. “It suggests that one day we might be able to use semi-autonomous robots for such jobs as helping disabled people or performing routine tasks in a person’s home.”
Samsung Electronics Co. announced today that they have developed a new mobile memory chip that is thinner than its current chip and uses less power. It’s the size that is the best part as this is the first 1GB DRAM chip to reach the market.
The new chip is at least 20 percent thinner than existing chipsets that use up to two 512-megabit chips, and it uses about 30 percent less power, the company said in a press release.
The new chip can also be used in a wide range of advanced handset applications as well as for digital still cameras, portable media players and portable gaming products.
Being the inventive Japanese that they are, PSP GadgetZ got busy with their latest toy-mod. They snapped a GPS-enabled PSP onto a Ram Mount and attached it on to the bars of a bike. After all, in Japan, they’ve got lots of side streets and alleys, and sometimes your car wouldn’t fit through them. So, if you want to cruise around town and look for some MGS: Portable Ops recruits.
Korean experts have developed a new fuel cell allowing laptops to remain up and running for a month without external power source. Samsung Electronics on Wednesday announced it developed a 1,200-watt-hour fuel cell for notebook computers in collaboration with Samsung SDI and the Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology and installed it in its Sense Q35 model. Assuming a laptop runs for eight hours a day five days a week, the fuel cell can operate it for a month.
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Jimmy Wales, founder of online encyclopedia Wikipedia, is planning a search engine in collaboration with online shopping firm Amazon.com. The search engine, called Wikiasari, could be a potential threat to search leaders, including Google, according to observers.
Wales said the search engine will be making use of the same user-based technology he perfected for Wikipedia. It will be developed by Wikia Inc. and is proposed to be launched in the first quarter of 2007.
The OQO model 01+ ultra personal computer (uPC) is a fully-featured Windows XP computer. The OQO has a 1GHz processor, a 30GB hard drive, 512MB of RAM, a color transflective display, and integrated wireless, as well as FireWire and USB ports.
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Just 4.9 inches long, 3.4 inches wide, 0.9 inches thin, and weighing only 14 ounces, the model 01+ can fit in a pocket or purse and go with you anywhere. For easy typing and cursor control it has a complete thumb keyboard with TrackStik and mouse buttons as well as digital pen and thumbwheel.
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Connect to wireless networks with built-in WiFi and Bluetooth. Connect all your peripherals including monitors, projectors, full-size keyboards, optical drives, printers, and speakers to the OQO docking cable and the model 01+ is your desktop computer.
Wish you had Google with you wherever you go? That may happen soon — the Guardian Observer reports that Google is in talks with mobile operator giant Orange to create a “Google Phone” with a variety of Google features in addition to normal phone functions.
The device, reports the Guardian, would have a screen much like the video iPod’s and offer quick access to Google. In addition, the paper reports that it would offer location-based services. Google would be aware of your geographical location and “could offer a tailored list of local cinemas, restaurants and other amenities, and maps and images from Google Earth.”
Google is already working to make YouTube videos easily accessible by mobile phones, and one can imagine Google making all of its services available wirelessly as well, including Gmail, and its Web-based word processor and spreadsheet.
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Scientists have created a way to control a robot with signals from a human brain.
Jimmy Wales, founder of online encyclopedia Wikipedia, is planning a search engine in collaboration with online shopping firm Amazon.com. The search engine, called Wikiasari, could be a potential threat to search leaders, including Google, according to observers.
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