justechn writes “Many of us have seen robots in the movies and wondered how long it would take for them to become a reality. Some of my favorites when I was a kid were Short Circut and Runaway. iRobot is a company that is striving to bring some of that technology home today. Their most popular and well known product is the Roomba vacuuming robot. The Roomba is great, after I finished my review of it and sent it back I went out and bought one. It does its best work picking up pet hair. They just
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Don’t like to mow your lawn, but you don’t want to hire someone else to do it? How about getting a Lawnmower Robot? With the introduction of the LawnBott LB3500, KA Home Robotics has raised the bar in home robotics for lawn care. The LB3500 is the world’s first Bluetooth compatible home robotic device. The owner can program and directly control the LB3500 through any Bluetooth compatible cell phone or PDA type device! They aren’t available yet, but it says they are coming soon. I’m willing t
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What a difference a week makes for Boston Red Sox starter Daisuke Matsuzaka. Last Saturday afternoon on national television, the St. Louis Cardinals made Dice-K their daddy by scoring 7 runs in his inning of work. Last night, he looked like the Dice-K of old as he came out with his gun drawn striking out the first three batters he faced. While he only went 5 innings, it was good to see him almost back to normal. He had good command of all his pitches for the most part and definitely didn’t loo
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Couple of clever developers from the University of South Florida have created a native iPhone application to remotely operate iRobot’s Packbot unit (that is one of the robots the US military is apparently using for surveillance/urban intelligence gathering operations in Iraq and Afghanistan). So you might not be trying this out but like the native iPhone app developed to control Unmaned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and iPhone Lego NXT Robot, an iPhone app developed by Battlebricks to use the iPhone as
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