As it turns out, gaming isn’t all the Oculus Rift is good for. Even though the peripheral is still in development mode, a user group known as Intuitive Aerial has hooked a few cameras up to a flying drone, and connected that drone to the Rift. Said drone is user-controlled, and basically lets whoever’s utilizing it experience flight.
Sweet.
The California-based company’s calling it the ‘World’s
Fastest Hard Drive’. Their hype machine is on full bore, but at least
it has some reason for it. Pairing a large flash memory cache with a
very high rotational speed, the Enterprise Turbo SSHD’s performance
is sure to be interesting.
The mouse has been with us for almost three decades. If you’re thinking that the time has come to take it to the next level, you’re right and that’s exactly what Nick Mastandrea thought. Unlike most people who have had a million, million-dollar ideas, Nick decided to do something about it. He got down and designed Mycestro. What is it? Well, Mycestro is little device which you strap on to the intermediate phalange of your index finger – in fact, it’s about the size of your intermediate phalange too. It has some pressure sensitive buttons on its side that you can access with your thumb.
Bright Light Ventures has developed an extremely classy solution to the age old problem of unruly desktop cords and cables with the Pinza device.
The Asimo robot, made by the folks over at Honda, is one of the most recognizable robots in the world. He may have been able to charm the press into giving him some air time, but he is having a hard time charming museum guests at his new job as a tour guide in Tokyo.
Though it may look like a gigantic
tablet, Hewlett-Packard’s Slate21 does not include a built-in
battery. The company seems to be trumpeting the device as a
power-efficient, if underpowered, home PC.
A team of engineers at the German
Aerospace Center have made a new robot designed to walk more like a man. The robot is called Torque Controlled
Humanoid Robot, or TORO for short, and he is an upgraded version of an older robot that you may have seen in the past, the DLR-Biped.
A team at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration has recently completed a new test on robots. In what could be dubbed the ultimate in remote contol a team on the International Space Station has been able to control a robot on earth in real time. This test will help with future bot visits to other planets.
A strange sporting contest is currently taking place in the Ducth city of Eindhoven. The town is currently home to about 40 teams of robots that are playing soccer. The tournament, which has been dubbed RoboCup is looking for the best in sports androids. The eventual goal, to beat human players.
AblePlanet this month unveiled the newest prototype of its Linx Fusion Haptics Headset. Although the concept may sound a little odd, there are some very real – and exciting – applications for the technology. I’m not just talking about gaming, either.
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