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Humans and Robots – Soon to Become the Same Thing

Humans and Robots – Soon to Become the Same Thing

When you say robot you think of a machine: it is made of metal, fells cold, and does stuff people cannot do. But researchers are getting closer to creating robots that look and feel more and more human. First of all, AIST presented at CEATEC …

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Google Kite – a New Perspective for Google Earth

Google Kite – a New Perspective for Google Earth

Frank Taylor is a blogger (he runs the unofficial Google Earth Blog) who travels around the world, taking above pictures of the places he has visited with the help of a kite. He has been doing this for about five years accompanied by his wife. …

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1TB Blu-Ray – currently a prototype

1TB Blu-Ray – currently a prototype

The BDXL specifications define Blu-Rays as discs with massive capacity reaching 100 GB (rewritable) and 128 GB (write-once). However, TDK defies those specifications by creating a 1 TB Blu-Ray prototype. It was first introduced last week at CEATAC Japan 2010. Compared to the normal disc, …

VMS Eve dropping the VSS Enterprise

Virgin Galactic completed a successful first test of the Enterprise

I’ve always been a fan Virgin enterprises, actually I’ve always been a fan of the story behind it. The news I have for you isn’t however something extremely intriguing for a fanboy of Virgin or one of Sir Richard Branson. This is more interesting for …

Body-heat Rechargable Cellphone

Body-heat Rechargable Cellphone

The new Nokia E-Cu (Environment – Copper) is still in its concept phase, and it is not yet known if it will ever be manufactured for sale. Designer Patrick Hyland, from UK, was the one to come up with the idea of making the phone’s …

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TV will never be the same again

TV will never be the same again

Forget about TV cable. Forget about sattelite TV. They’re out of fashion, outdated methods of using your widescreen. The new era brings us on-demand TV with the help of Apple and Google. Apple is preparing to lunch it’s second generation of Apple TV and Logitech’s …

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Tips, tricks and kicks from the IT department

Tips, tricks and kicks from the IT department

Concerning “corporate” business, be it a small company or a larger facility, opinions regarding all of the computing structure and those few who keep it in one piece, are as many as the people who state them. Most say that the local “sysadmin” taking care …

Hubble Telescope Celebrated Its 20th Anniversary

Hubble Telescope Celebrated Its 20th Anniversary

The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) has just celebrated its 20th anniversary since it was positioned in orbit on April 24, 1990 by the space shuttle Discovery. NASA, together with the Space Telescope Science Institute and the European Space Agency, celebrated the event with the release …