Jeff Han gave an amazing talk and demo at Etech – pictured here, LCARS multi-tounch interface! While touch sensing is commonplace for single points of contact, multi-touch systems enables a user to interact with a system with more than one finger at a time, allowing for the use of both hands along with chording gestures. […]
The University of Warwick is working on a lot of cool bots to help farmers – A robotic mushroom picker, inflatable conveyor belt & a mega-robot grass cutter, my favorite is the mushroom picker with robo suction cup – [via] Link. Videos of the robots will be available here – Link.
Here’s a little peak of what e-paper / e-ink products that are coming out in the next year or so – [via] Link. If you want to use a DRM-free e-ink reader now, check out our how-tos on modding a Sony Librie and making your own ebooks – Link.
Iced venti Deoxyribonucleics, News from the Future – “Behind the coffee bar…employees swab the mouths of clients and the people they want to check for a possible DNA link. The samples are sent to a lab in Texas, and results come back within a week.” – [via] Link. Related: DNA hacking, art from DNA, kits […]
“A fake falcon and a radar-activated cannon work better at keeping birds away from oilsands waste than the current system, according to research from the University of Alberta.” [via] Link.
Anyone out there know more about this remote controlled bot? I saw this photo from Kyodo News on CNET of a bot checking cars at Beijing’s Tiananmen Square – Link.
No cow tipping the robot, thanks – “A nimble, four-legged robot is so surefooted it can recover its balance even after being given a hefty kick. The machine, which moves like a cross between a goat and a pantomime horse, is being developed as a robotic pack mule for the US military.” – [via] Link. […]
