Another week, another PackBot order. iRobot is busy increasing its backlog and looks to kick off 2009 with a bang!If anything is recession proof, it’s life-saving war robots.-ThornTags: iRobot
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The iPhone has already been used to control R/C car, iRobot’s Packbot, Unmaned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), iPhone Lego NXT Robo and more recently was turned into a walking robot. Robots are wonderful creatures, as many Japanese will tell you. So it wasn’t surprising to find out that a Japanese hacker…
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Article by Leo Babauta. (Follow me on Twitter.) If you’re like me, you can eat healthy much of the time, exercise a lot, and still find your fat-burning efforts at a plateau. It seems easier to lose the first 30 pounds than the last bit of fat around your middle. And if you’re like me, you want to get lean — for reasons that may vary from improved physical performance to better health to better looks. It’s not always easy to get rid of that stubborn belly fat — or any fat, for that matter, a
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I wrote an article on ubiquitous computing user experience design for ACM’s interactions magazine. The final article is only available to subscribers, but here’s a preprint version of it: Ubiquitous Computing User Experience Design I think 2005 was the year we began living in the world of commonplace ubiquitous computing devices. That year Apple put out the screenless iPod Shuffle, Adidas launched the adidas_1 shoe, and iRobot launched the Discovery—its second-generation vacuum robot. Sadly,
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