Beijing Humanoid Robot on display

The Beijing Institute of Technology who receives funding from the CMST (Chinese Ministry of Science & Technology), has developed at least three different models of the BHR (Beijing Humanoid Robot). The BHR-2, being the successor of the BHR-1, is plus known as Huitong and stands a proud 158cm tall, tipping the scales at 76kg while [...]

MIT Surround Vision is a blast

The brainy boffins at MIT have come up with Surround Vision which is a pretty interesting method when it comes to breaking the perception barrier. How does it do so, you ask? Well, Surround Vision will enable a viewer to pan around a specific scene which is located ouside the perspective that is limited by [...]

Palm Pre 800MHz Linux kernels unveiled

Palm Pre overclockers will be thrilled to find out that new custom 720MHz and 800MHz Linux kernels have finally been released by unixpsycho and caj2008, and you can check out the demonstration as well as installation directions from the video above. Some users who have the intestinal fortitude to go ahead with these kernel installations [...]

Samsung Omnia HD with WP7S made by Microsoft

Interesting – remember the story on the Samsung Omnia HD with WP7S which we covered earlier that morning? Well, in a surprising turn of events, that is a handset that was created by Microsoft themselves for the demonstration, and not by the folks at Samsung. Now how about that? We do wonder what other kinds [...]

Voice controlled quad-copter

Check out that modified quad-copter that is controlled using voice commands – yes, the same voice you use to ensure your pooch stays off the sofa or leaves your shoes alone can be used to puppet that robot any way you like. Responding to natural language, you can just casually mention, “take off and fly [...]

Tegra 2 tablets are pretty zippy

The Tegra platform from NVIDIA is the conclusion of a marriage among an ARM processor and an NVIDIA GPU which is meant to enable tablets, netbooks and smart books handle playback of HD video with aplomb, not to mention its ability to run 3D graphics without lost a beat. Several demonstration tablets made their way [...]

Acer TouchPortal user interface on demonstration

Acer’s TouchPortal user interface was on display for all and sundry to check out at MWC 2010 in Barcelona, Spain, where it had the Aspire 1820P as the hardware platform of choice to run that next-generation user interface. The Aspire 1820P convertible tablet is no lightweight in terms of hardware specifications, and it does seem [...]

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