Supposedly an acoustic trigger could have remotely sealed the under sea oil well that is currently spilling 210,000 gallons of oil per day into the Gulf of Mexico. Many news outlets are reporting that if British Petroleum had invested in this particular remote control technology, workers escaping from the burning BP rig on April 20 [...]
It seems that literally every time I start browsing the ’net I find something else controlled by an iPhone. Here’s a sampling: iPhone controlled R/C Car An actual Oldsmobile Dance lights A minivan (2007) R2D2 Dog feeders Military Drones A helicopter What next? How about a bi-pedal walking robot named Walky. The robot and controller [...]
There have been a variety of uses for multitouch tables, but, to be honest, most of them aren’t really that interesting. We have all seen the promos of people having the time of their life pinch-zooming pictures and flicking them around, but it doesn’t look like much fun to me. That is until I saw [...]
Have you ever wished you could have been a fly on the wall for a particular moment — for an entertaining squabble, an important moment in history, or simply just to spy on people for the fun of it? Well the Military does, and a group of researchers at University of California Berkeley are hard [...]
You bought that riding mower with the cupholders and thought you were pretty cool. Or maybe you invited your friends over to admire your Roomba robotic vacuum cleaner. Nice try, but these just don’t cut it anymore. We’ve long been inspired by our belief that remote control has the potential to make our lives more [...]
Do you suspect your neighbors might be hatching a plot to overthrow the government? Concerned that Al-Qaeda may have just set up a headquarters down the street? Before you call the Department of Homeland Security’s terrorist activity hotline, confirm your suspicions with one of these: the Micro Butterfly from Plantraco Microflight. Yes, for $149.99 you [...]
If we slide into one of those rare moments of military honesty, we realize that the technical demands of modern warfare are so complex a considerable percentage of our material is bound to malfunction even before it is deployed against a foe. We no longer waste manpower by carrying the flag into battle. Instead we [...]