Sep 16
Samsung is throwing $1 billion at startups in the hope of competing with Google and Microsoft after their acquisition of Motorola and Nokia, hoping small entrepreneurs are able to come up with great ideas for their products.
Sep 13
This Week’s Robot Roundup
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A look at what has been going on in the world of robots in the past seven days. Robots are working their way into the world of art, as man’s best friend and a few other interesting places.
Sep 13
The bathroom renovation of the future will include more than just new
technology. New innovations will include more customizable and
programmable features than ever. Connected bathrooms will be the norm,
as toilets automatically open and shut or clean themselves. Potentially
offensive or embarrassing odors and noises will be a thing of the past.
Your connected scale and toothbrush might monitor your hygiene habits or
send reports straight to your doctor and dentist. Nope, not creepy at
all. So take a look at what’s coming soon:
Sep 12
CodeBender.CC Makes It Crazy Easy To Program Your Arduino Board From Your Browser
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The official Arduino IDE is a dour piece of software designed for uploading code to the ubiquitous and super-cool micro controller. It is a standalone, non-networked app that isn’t very pretty to look at. But what if you want to share code and upload programs right from your browser? That’s where CodeBender.cc comes in.
CodeBender is a browser-based IDE that supports uploading to nearly any Arduino board. You can use the program to copy sample code, browse code uploaded by other users, and even store private snippets. Because it is collaborative you can clone bits of code and use it in your own projects and there is even a curated list of cool snippets.
Founded by Vasilis Georgitzikis and Alexandros Baltas, the site came out of LAUNCHub, a European seed fund. ” It all started by my frustration as a computer engineer who was used to advanced development tools, only to lose them when I moved to coding for Arduino, and my frustration as an Arduino instructor on various hackerspaces around the world, when I spent 2.5 hours of each 3 hour workshop just to install the damned thing,” said Georgitzikis.
“We’ve also developed a technology that allows our users to program and control a network-enabled Arduino (i.e. Arduino Ethernet) through the network, straight through the browser using pure HTML5 technologies (i.e. WebSockets), which enables remote programming of IoT devices,” he said.
The system handles compilation and error reporting and ensures that the code you upload to your Arduino won’t break your project. Unlike sites like Circuits.io, this system doesn’t just simulate projects it allows for full control of your Arduino hardware right from the browser. Maybe this system will finally enable me to dig out my Arduino boards and actually do something.
Sep 12
The fine folks over at the AbleGamers Foundation – an organization devoted to improving the lives of the disabled through video games – yesterday announced the opening of their first game lab, geared specifically towards gamers with special needs.
Sep 12
What new innovations should you put into your bathroom renovation? What new technology have inventors created to make life in the loo better? Check out some amazing future bathroom technology you can actually own today.
Sep 10
It recently occurred to me just how reliant we are on the technologies with which we operate our society; few more so than the Internet. Today, I want to try something entirely different. Today, I want you all to imagine what life would be like if it were to simply…stop.
Sep 10
It’s a familiar routine for gamers: a developer announces a title or peripheral that requires an Internet connection to function. Gamers react with ire. They backpedal without understanding what they’ve done wrong – online is the future, isn’t it?
Yes. It is. But that future hasn’t arrived yet.
Sep 09
Microsoft’s reportedly got something big under its hat related to its Surface Tablets. The organization’s been sending out invites to a New York Event, which is to be hosted on September 23. Word is; there’s a new product announcement on the way, perhaps even the launch of the next-gen Surface 2.
Sep 09
At Sony’s Tokyo Game Show conference, Capcom released a demo for its upcoming PS4 RPG Deep Down, announcing that the title will feature procedural generation of maps, monsters, and weapons. In other words. the vast majority of the game will be completely randomized. Not bad, eh?
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