Not everyone is fortunate enough to live somewhere you aren’t likely to have a gun turned on you just for walking down the street, and a lot of folks are soldiers – a dangerous line of work. Robotena exists for just those people: a robot designed to safely cart wounded people out of warzones.
Well, folks, it’s finally happened. There’s an open-source robot on the way. An organization known as Unbounded Robotics yesterday announced the UBR-1; a semi-autonomous, one-armed robot which it claims is perfect for a wide range of industrial, business, and office applications.
Nikon is suing Sakar International Inc. over the design of the Polaroid iM1836 camera, an Android-power device that looks like a carbon copy of the Nikon 1 J1.
The team at Google’s Quantum AI Lab have recently done something rather exciting with the immensely popular block building video game Minecraft: they’ve added quantum physics. qCraft, as it’s called, is a mod that adds blocks which exhibit a number of theories present in current-day quantum physics.
When the news first leaked about Google Glass a few years ago, it
was pretty hard to imagine that such a device would turn out to be more
than an entertaining gadget. But now that Google Glass is being tested
by prospective users, medical professionals are taking the device very
seriously and, if you become a patient needing heavy-duty medical care,
you will be taking it seriously too.
You know those gadgets that you can buy at drugstores? Back in the early 2000s it was all portable CD players and PC speakers. Now it’s MP3 players with 2GB of storage and wimpy tablets. And if you’ve ever done last minute Christmas shopping at a Walgreens you know that the brands start to become recognizable for their no-name-ness. Coby was a staple in that lineup until recently. Now a titan of cheap, sometimes questionable electronics has fallen.
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There’s something invigorating about fear, and there’s no better occasion than Halloween. To that end, I’ve always found horror-themed video games to be scariest; you’re naturally more immersed. Why not try one? Submitted for your pleasure, here’s a few horror games guaranteed to scare you witless.
The Incredible Hulk might be the Marvel hero best known for smashing stuff, but his Avenger buddies are always on hand to tastefully leave their mark on your walls too…
Nvidia came forward with an exciting announcement earlier today; news which should have gamers everywhere jumping for joy: the graphics card manufacturer has, in essence, eliminated screen tearing from gaming altogether. Ladies and gentlemen, it is my pleasure to introduce you to Nvidia G-Sync.
Scotty won’t be beaming you up anytime soon. According to the U of L’s Journal of Special Physics, even if it were possible, the amount of time it would take to download and re-upload a human brain would be equivalent to over four quadrillion years. Looks like we’ll have to invent time travel first.
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