It has been more than a year now since we talked about the awesome high-tech and very expensive artificial limbs made by a company called Touch Bionics. These hands are able to sense the electrical pulses from the muscles in the arm of users and activate artificial bionic hand. The artificial hand is so high-tech that the user can do just about anything they are able to do with a normal hand.
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Weird tech fashion dresses let wearer type on the skirt and change color with mood
Geeks like odd clothing often that tells the world just how geeky they are. Generally, we think of the geeky guys wearing clothing of questionable taste, but there are a lots of odd garments out there for the lady geeks too. One such geeky dress is dubbed The Printing Dress. The dress has a keyboard on the corset that the wearer can use to type out a message.
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Willow Garage PR2 SE robot available for $285,000 with one arm
A few days back I talked about the MIT student that took the expensive PR2 robot and taught it how to make cookies from scratch. If you thought you would like your own cookie baking robot Willow Garage has now announced that the robot is available for the tidy sum of $200,000 with no arms apparently. Sure, the bot costs more than a nice home in many areas, but your house can’t bake cookies for you.
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RotoSub makes cooling fan for electronics with active noise cancellation
If you have a computer or other device in your house that needs lots of fans to stay cool you know how loud these fans can be. I have a computer in my office right now that sounds like a small jet idling on the runway. It gets quite annoying. A company called RotoSub is licensing tech that might be perfect for those that want some peace and quiet in the home or office.
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I2R e-Paper is erasable and reusable
If you say e-Paper, most of us will think of the e-Readers that have the displays needing little power and offering lots of readability. A new sort of e-paper has surfaced in Taiwan that has some very cool properties. The e-Paper uses a thermal printer like you would find in a fax machine and it prints on the e-Paper using that heat.
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Texas town recycling urine into drinking water
NASA has used a system on the ISS for years that captures all the wastewater from the toilet and filters it to make water for drinking and cleaning. This would be the worst part of being an astronaut. No matter how clean the water is I would think constantly that I might be drinking the urine of another astronaut. Space isn't the only place where people are forced to get every bit of water out of what they have to live.
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Robot created by MIT grad student bakes cookies!
Robots are pretty cool when they can do stuff on their own. I'm impressed to see robots that can vacuum or help people do simple things around the home. When the robot can do more complex things like make a recipe with multiple steps, I am even more impressed. When after the recipe is complete I can eat the cookies said robot makes I am ready to get my own robot.
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Study says too much Facebook is unhealthy for kids
A new study has shown that too much Facebook time may be bad for kids. The study comes from psychologist Larry Rosen at Cal State Dominguez Hill. Rosen has been studying the effects of technology on people for 25 years and his latest study looks at the effects of social networking on students. The case study on the latest research Rosen performed was presented at the American Psychological Association's annual convention in Washington, D.C. recently.
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Yosemite adds lots of solar panels to save $50K yearly in electricity costs
Going green is a big deal not only for the environment, but also for the impact it can have on the costs to operate a business or home. The price of electricity is a huge expense for many organizations and even what seem to be small reductions in energy use can add up to huge savings. Yosemite National Park has rolled out a new solar power system that is placed on existing structures to minimize the impact to the views and environment in the park.
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Former Microsoft Exec Steven VanRoekel Named U.S. Federal CIO
The White House announced Thursday that President Obama intends to name the country's second federal CIO Steven VanRoekel to replace its first, that being the outgoing Vivek Kundra. WanRoekel has been several different leaders in the past including a Microsoft executive and managing director of the Federal Communications Devision of the US government. VanRoekel previously served 15 years at Microsoft where his final position was as Microsoft's Windows Server and Tools Division, followed by a year+ stint at the FCC starting in 2009, ending at this newest appointment.
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WiFi 802.22 Technology Promises Wireless Data Over 60 Miles: Say Goodbye to Data Plans
It’s the news bit you’ve been waiting years to hear! The folks at the IEEE standards body have today announced a next-generation WiFi IEEE 802.22TM standard – technology that’s designed to facilitate wireless data transfer up to 60 miles (or a hundred kilometers) at 22Mbps. This technology is said to work over these great distances by utilizing television bands – without interfering with the reception of existing television broadcast stations at that. Imagine it – connect to your HambergerDLX network anywhere inside your town from your smartphone with no data plan costs. Magical freedom!
Toyota shows off window concept that lets passengers zoom in on the world outside
Toyota has a new tech concept that is really cool and really far out there. I just don't see this tech coming to market at any time other than the distant future when tech is much cheaper. The smart tech in the Toyota windows allows the people in the seats around you to zoom in on the world and get more information about what they see.
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