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Thursday, October 31, 2013
Teach Your Kids -- With Robots
Gupta set out to find a way to teach very young children the basics of coding--sequences of instructions, subroutines, events, conditional statements--in a playful way. Today Play-i launched a crowdfunding campaign to raise $250,000 to manufacture two kid-friendly robots called Bo and Yana, which teach high-level programming concepts to children as as young as five.
More @ Co.Labs ⚙ code community
More @ Co.Labs ⚙ code community
Wednesday, October 30, 2013
Tuesday, October 29, 2013
Hello Ara - Are Modular Phones the Future?
Led by Motorola’s Advanced Technology and Projects group, Project Ara is developing a free, open hardware platform for creating highly modular smartphones. We want to do for hardware what the Android platform has done for software: create a vibrant third-party developer ecosystem, lower the barriers to entry, increase the pace of innovation, and substantially compress development timelines.
Our goal is to drive a more thoughtful, expressive, and open relationship between users, developers, and their phones. To give you the power to decide what your phone does, how it looks, where and what it’s made of, how much it costs, and how long you’ll keep it.
Here’s a sneak peek at early designs for Project Ara:
The design for Project Ara consists of what we call an endoskeleton (endo) and modules. The endo is the structural frame that holds all the modules in place.
More @ Motorola Blog
Our goal is to drive a more thoughtful, expressive, and open relationship between users, developers, and their phones. To give you the power to decide what your phone does, how it looks, where and what it’s made of, how much it costs, and how long you’ll keep it.
Here’s a sneak peek at early designs for Project Ara:
More @ Motorola Blog
Motorola announces Project Ara, an open hardware platform with modular components ala Phonebloks
Very cool! Bruno Torres check this out
Monday, October 28, 2013
A "Volume Knob" for your Window?
Created by industrial designer Rudolf Stefanich, the Sono sticks to glass surfaces and literally allows you to dial down unwanted noise. After it receives a sound’s vibrations, it reprocesses them much like the active noise cancellation technology used in certain headphones. Sono’s interface acts as a dial, letting you choose which sounds you want blocked from your fortress of solitude.
More @ Gajitz
Sunday, October 27, 2013
Monday, October 21, 2013
Scientists may have figured out why we sleep
"Brain Cleansing"
While we are asleep, our bodies may be resting, but our brains are busy taking out the trash.
A new study has found that the cleanup system in the brain, responsible for flushing out toxic waste products that cells produce with daily use, goes into overdrive in mice that are asleep. The cells even shrink in size to make for easier cleaning of the spaces around them.
Brains flush toxic waste in sleep, including Alzheimer’s-linked protein, study of mice finds
Lulu Xie -
The difference of cerebrospinal fluid influx is seen in the
brain of an awake and a sleeping mouse. Fluorescent dye has been
injected into the animal to enable viewing of cerebrospinal fluid
dynamics in a mouse that is still alive. The red represents the greater
flow in a sleeping animal, while the green represents conversely
restricted flow in the same awake animal.
A new study has found that the cleanup system in the brain, responsible for flushing out toxic waste products that cells produce with daily use, goes into overdrive in mice that are asleep. The cells even shrink in size to make for easier cleaning of the spaces around them.
More @ Washignton Post
Sunday, October 20, 2013
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Friday, October 04, 2013
Surprisingly simple scheme for self-assembling robots - MIT News Office
Known as M-Blocks, the robots are cubes with no external moving parts. Nonetheless, they’re able to climb over and around one another, leap through the air, roll across the ground, and even move while suspended upside down from metallic surfaces. Inside each M-Block is a flywheel that can reach speeds of 20,000 revolutions per minute; when the flywheel is braked, it imparts its angular momentum to the cube. On each edge of an M-Block, and on every face, are cleverly arranged permanent magnets that allow any two cubes to attach to each other. “It’s one of these things that the [modular-robotics] community has been trying to do for a long time,” says Rus, a professor of electrical engineering and computer science and director of CSAIL. “We just needed a creative insight and somebody who was passionate enough to keep coming at it — despite being discouraged.” [video] http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2013/simple-scheme-for-self-assembling-robots-1004.html
Wednesday, October 02, 2013
The Galaxy Note 3 Has a Hidden Tiny Screen Mode For Your Tiny Hands
Love it! Not only is it sheer absurd but also extremely useful! :-P
Tuesday, October 01, 2013
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