Nintendo Bringing DS Demo Downloads to Boring Old Airports
Nintendo has found the perfect audience to unleash its hordes of DS demos on: people at airports. They’re bored, they’ve got nowhere to go, and if they own a DS chances are they’ll have it with them. The first run will be found in Delta terminals within JFK, Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta and Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airports.…
RoboBusiness Roundup: Some Robots Get Emotional, Others Get Physical
The IZI Robotics development team must be composed of elves, oompa loompas, or leprechauns. I couldn’t find a robot that was bigger than a Swiffer head at their booth. They had roving robots that traced dark lines, wheel-based cubes that kicked around a golf ball, wireless "emotional network robots" (Netoys) that looked like winged Boos…
Bionic Baby Seals Keep Old People From Feeling Lonely
Want to know what the Japanese government has been doing with 12 million dollars for the past two years? Developing Silver Technology, that is, robots for lonely old people. The intuitive baby harp seal, which I encountered at the RoboBusiness 2007 conference in Boston, is equipped with internal motion sensors and responds to petting, scratching…
Life-sized Gundam Wakes Up, Destroys Enemies, Takes a Nap?
If you are planning to go on vacation this July and you like huge robots (of the anime variety, not LG product ninja skinjobs), get a ticket to Japan, visit the Fuji entertainment park and get drunk with sake! https://gizmodo.com/lg-kh1300-its-fast-maybe-faster-than-this-red-bus-240273 OK, so that last part is my plan anyway, but you can’t miss this 59-feet…
Evergreen Flash-to-USB Stick Will Take Cards
This Evergreen USB adaptor is for people who like to play with slots – of the flash memory kind. It’s a USB memory stick with a slot for memory cards, so it’s more like an adaptor, really. They have all sorts of models, ones which accept anything from Compact Flash, Secure Digital, micro SD, MMC…