Entries from June 2008 ↓

Perhaps you saw the new Pixar movie WALL•E this weekend? Perhaps now people will stop laughing at me when I explain that I was more upset about the death of my helpful, friendly Roomba than most pet deaths. Robots are noble creatures worthy of respect! They have beautiful little fixations and neuroses that help us all live better lives. I dare say that in all arenas other than digestibility, I prefer them to living animals. So much of this film felt like an adorable extended remix of the orig
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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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Pixar’s new Wall-E certainly looked incredible in its trailer, but it left Kyle Smith with quite a sour aftertaste:A more advanced flying probe-bot sent to Earth for reasons unknown has feminine curves and lovely blue eyes that leave WALL-E smitten, though except for her habit of laser-zapping any suspicious object she could be one of those white bullet-shaped trash canisters you’d see at a snack bar. When she and WALL-E start to beep sweet nothings at each other, she has a higher-pitched tone
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This is really fun: Maybe we can get it on MTV. (thx John) Tags: iRobot, Roomba
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QualityStocks.net "Top Movers and Shakers" for 6/26/2008 TransWorldNews (press release), GA - 7 hours ago They have their patented AquaMax™ solar electric systems capable of operating pumps and motors up to 1000 horsepower (hp) for irrigation, refrigeration and …

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CITY OFFICES ACHIEVE EXCELLENT BREEAM RATING WITH MHS Whats New In Building, UK - 17 hours ago The latest specification MHS Ultramax R3600SB boilers have been installed at a major central London office development in high and low temperature circuits …

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iRobot military robots emigrating Thu, Jun 26th, 2008 posted by admin 05:06 AM Unmanned robots sold to allied nations such as Israel and the United Kingdom are set to make up approximately 15 percent of the U.S. manufacturer’s industrial-division revenues for 2008.
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