Toa Mata Lego Band Actually Rocks article tells that [Opificio Sonico] has been at the Lego-based robot music making business for a while now. He has released videos on YouTube that shows a definite evolution of his style and the Lego ‘bots technical range. Awesome! Toa Mata Band is known as the World’s first LEGO →
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/601451/why-autocorrect-for-passwords-is-a-great-idea/ Autocorrect for passwords looks like a bad idea at first sight. But turns out that it is actually a good idea when done properly! →
Technology that powers smartphone cameras has steadily improved. You can shoot video with smart phone camera, but if you want to get authentic film look you need to think how you could have the visuals that the traditional film camera lenses gives. My eariler posting Video and movie shooting with a smartphone told about a →
http://spectrum.ieee.org/static/special-report-trusting-robots?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+IeeeSpectrum+%28IEEE+Spectrum%29&utm_content=FaceBook Robots are coming to many applications where errors can be dangerous. Can you trust life and death to robotics technology? Is technology ready and are you ready for this? →
http://www.geek.com/games/nvidia-virtual-reality-will-take-another-20-years-to-fix-1656827/ I remember when VR breaktrough was just around the corner but failed due many technical issues. VR is hot know, so question does history repeat itself now as Nvidia tells? →
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/05/everything-old-is-new-again-and-vice-versa-the-predicament-of-journalism/371949/?utm_source=atlfb The old question is how the writers can make money to pay the bills is still valid today. →
http://www.geek.com/news/asus-announces-the-600-zenbo-home-robot-1656642/ Reasonably priced but limited home robot. Someone needs to invent killer application for this, or this end to be just tablet on wheels. →
A solid state relay (SSR) is an industrial component used for interfacing low voltage control signals to high current mains voltage loads. The SSR may be designed to switch either AC or DC to the load. It serves the same function as an electromechanical relay, but has no moving parts. You can control SSRs easily →
http://www.vox.com/2016/5/27/11797924/cellphones-cancer-bad-reporting Another bad research reporting is spreading FUD that cell phones would cause cancer – and many magazines spread this false “news”. Stop this kind of bad science reporting. →
How the Internet works: Submarine fiber, brains in jars, and coaxial cables | Ars Technica http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/05/how-the-internet-works-submarine-cables-data-centres-last-mile/ But how does Interner work? Take a deep dive into Internet infrastructure and visit to a subsea cable landing site. This article is simply not talking about the wonders of TCP/IP or pervasive Wi-Fi hotspots, though those are vitally important →