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Air Hogs Hawk Eye
By Andrew Liszewski I’ll admit, the first time I was able to pilot a $30 RC toy helicopter inside my home I was quite impressed. Unfortunately it didn’t take long for the novelty to wear off, and neither wacky designs nor improved avionics have piqued my interest since then. But a built-in digital video camera? […]
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Broadway Musicians Replaced With Synthesizers
wooferhound writes “Sophisticated synthesizers and computer-manipulated recordings are increasingly taking over orchestras. Sounding almost like real players, while costing much less, they’re especially popular with provincial or touring companies. But until mid-July — when ‘West Side Story’s’ producers announced that a synthesizer was replacing three live violinists and two cellists, or half the orchestra’s string […]
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Pleo gets another chance [via feedly]
[Robert] sent us some news on Pleo’s future. Apparently a company called Jetta has bought the rights to Pleo during the bankruptcy sale. They intend on re releasing the cute little robot. They mention that they have built parts for the iRobot line. We wonder what they’ll do, if anything, to make it more appealing.
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PANOPLIE.ORG
Panoplie.org francuski je web-magazin kojeg vodi kolektiv umjetnika, čiji je “cilj postati platforma za razmjenu između umjetnika i Net surfera.” Grupa također surađuje sa umjetničkim institucijama i galerijama pokušavajući proširiti horizonte diskursa “tradicionalne umjetnosti”. Panoplie je posebno zainteresiran za rad temeljen na internetu, te odnedavno naručuje online performanse koji predstavljaju izazov umjetnicima. Organizatori ljubazno ostavljaju […]
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HAL Robot Exoskeletons Available for Rent [Faster, Better, Stronger]
The day for you to strap yourself into a robotic exoskeleton and fight crime the way your normally flabby limbs would never have let you has come! Cyberdyne, the Japanese company responsible for the HAL (hybrid assistive limb) prototype robot suit, is starting rentals this week. The price for being superhuman: about $2,200. The 22 […]
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Hacking Pleo for face recognition and remote control
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