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Posted by on May 6, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Willow Garage, a company based in the Silicon Valley, is developing an open source Operating System for robots: the ROS (Robot Operating System). On Tuesday, Willow carport announced the PR2 Beta Program’s 11 recipients selected from 78 proposals, each of them will receive a free PR2 Beta Robot with the ROS. The total value of [...]
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Posted by on May 6, 2010 · Leave a Comment
[Web 2.0] Pearltrees defined itself as the “leading-edge social web curation tool and discovery platform”, personally, I prefer “visual collaborative web browsing interface“, the word “platform” is overrated these days. At the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, the company, selected as one of only five companies to present at the Launch Pad event, unveiled [...]
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Posted by on January 27, 2010 · Leave a Comment
You may have thought that Yelp was crazy to turn down a $500 million offer from Google a while back, but the review site has gotten a nice little windfall from Elevation Partners, a private equity firm in Silicon Valley. The firm has invested a good $100 million into Yelp, and Elevation co-founder Marc Bodnick [...]
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Posted by on January 27, 2010 · Leave a Comment
In what passes for “historic” here in Silicon Valley, Apple CEO Steve Jobs today unveiled his long-awaited iPad, an iPhone-like touch tablet. You’ve seen the speculation, rumor, hype and baloney. Finally, here are the facts – boiled down to 60 seconds of reading. Orginal post by Mike
Posted by on January 6, 2010 · Leave a Comment
[CES 2010] Wellcore, a Silicon Valley-based startup, launched its new Mobile Personal Emergency Response System (M-PERS) with motion detection and advanced pattern recognition, the company claims that its patent-pending technology can distinguish falls from other type of motion with unprecedented accuracy. The elderly are often left out of the new emerging technologies considering they are [...]
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Posted by on January 6, 2010 · Leave a Comment
[CES 2010] With its 5.7” touch display (capacitive) and its nice design, the Sensia would look great in a contemporary home. Its touch interface can be used to choose many music sources, from a home server, an Net radio and more. There are plus apps to check and update status in social networks like Facebook [...]
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Posted by on December 16, 2009 · Leave a Comment
There’s a new vacuum robot in Silicon Valley: Neato has officially launched and it aims at grabbing the top spot from Roomba, the current champion in the robotic vacuum category. To take on Roomba, Neato is said to solve old problems that iRobot (the company behind Roomba) never really improved (because of the lack of [...]
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