Aug 20
If you’re into tweaking and fiddling with your gadgets but don’t have the time to start a big project from scratch, the new Iris drone from 3D Robotics could be up your street.
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Aug 19
3D Robotics has made it pretty clearly that it’s all about the maker community. But what about those who can’t tell their Arduino from a Raspberry Pi? The Chris Anderson-run company today announced the release of Iris, an out-of-the-box, user-friendly quadcopter experience. The drone can be controlled with an Android device (iOS coming soon), including single button takeoffs and landings. There’s an ARM Cortex-M4 processor and a built-in data radio on-board, the latter of which will help you check out flight paths in real-time. There’s also a spot for a GoPro Hero3, though that, naturally, will cost you ($400) extra. The configurable copter starts at $730. It’s set to ship on September 16th.
Filed under: Robots
Via: Quadcopter
Source: 3d Robotics
Jun 29
Alt-week 6.29.13: DARPA’s robot finalists, the IRIS solar mission and empathetic computers
Posted in: Today's ChiliAlt-week takes a look at the best science and alternative tech stories from the last seven days.
Sure, DARPA is slightly sinister, but it’s so into robots that we’re willing to let that slide. In fact, last year it launched the DARPA Robotics Challenge, and it just announced the top six nine seven teams to advance. But if just the idea of figuring out robotics frustrates you, NC State’s face tracking program literally gets that, and NASA just launched the IRIS solar probe from the belly of a transport jet. It’s Alt-week, baby.
Jun 26
The Sun actually gets hotter as you travel away from its surface, jumping from 6,000 K there to over 1,000,000 K a few million kilometers above in the corona. This effect contributes to solar flares that can damage earthbound electronics and we have no idea how it does this. But NASA is about to find out thanks to the IRIS (Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph) spacecraft that just launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base today.
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May 07
ntel’s media box is coming and it may be the 4K device we’ve been waiting for.
May 02
The Daily Roundup for 05.02.2013
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You might say the day is never really done in consumer technology news. Your workday, however, hopefully draws to a close at some point. This is the Daily Roundup on Engadget, a quick peek back at the top headlines for the past 24 hours — all handpicked by the editors here at the site. Click on through the break, and enjoy.
May 02
The age of underpowered integrated notebook graphics is over. Prepare your eyes for awesome. Intel announced Wednesday that its fourth-gen Intel Core Haswell processors will include its new Iris Graphics technology. What this means in something other than marketing-speak is …
May 01
Intel details 4th-gen Core’s HD 5000, Iris and Iris Pro graphics: up to 3X faster, 3-display collage mode
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Many already believe that the real highlight of Intel’s 4th-generation Core processor lineup would be a giant graphics update. Today, Intel is revealing that they’re right — and, importantly, that there’s an equally large shift in naming strategy. Where 3rd-generation Core graphics were divided into two tiers, the new generation is focused on three, two of which are built for performance over efficiency. Ultrabooks with 15W U-series processors will use comparatively ordinary (if still faster) HD 5000 graphics. Thin-and-light laptops with 28W U-series chips get a new tier, Iris, that Intel claims is up to twice as fast in 3D as last year’s HD Graphics. Power-hungry parts see even more of a boost: they can carry Iris Pro graphics with embedded DRAM, which should double the 3D speed on H-series mobile chips (47-55W of typical power) and triple it for the R-series (around 65-84W) on the desktop. We also know that M-series laptop and K-series desktop CPUs will have Iris Pro options.
The feature set for the graphics trio is slightly more familiar to us, although there are a few tricks up Intel’s sleeve. All three can draw DirectX 11.1 and OpenGL 4 visuals, as well as take on OpenCL 1.2 computing and faster media processing. We’re almost more interested in the display modes, though. Along with receiving “enhanced” 4K output, the new Core graphics can handle a 3-screen collage mode — we won’t need dedicated video for a large, multi-monitor canvas. Sadly, Intel isn’t providing more than incidental details about the processors themselves, although it has already teased that we’ll get the full story around the Computex show in early June.
Filed under: Desktops, Laptops, Intel
Source: Intel
Apr 09
AOptix Stratus lets iPhone users check ID through eyes, faces, fingers and voices
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The many attempts at weaving biometric identification into mobile devices have usually focused on only one aspect at a time, whether it’s fingerprints or voices, and often for access to just the device itself. AOptix isn’t quite so narrowly focused. Its new Stratus system combines an app with a custom iPhone 4 / 4S case (the Stratus MX) to verify faces, irises, fingerprints and voices for grander purposes, whether it’s office workers checking in or entire national ID programs. The bundle should be more portable than most such alternatives, as well as more intuitive through its familiar interface. Odds are that you won’t be buying a Stratus kit to scan friends and family at home, though. Apart from the bundle’s lack of support for the iPhone 5 or any non-iOS platform, the Stratus software in the App Store isn’t an impulse purchase at $199 — and an emphasis on quotation-based case sales likely means you’ll be the scanner’s target, not its owner.
Filed under: Cellphones, Peripherals, Mobile, Apple
Source: AOptix
Mar 13
Scanning is made easy with an all-in-one mouse scanner with OCR (Optical Character Recognition) technology by IRIS. Just click the scan button and swipe the IRIScan Mouse in any direction on paper documents. Texts and images will appear instantaneously on the computer display.
The USB 2.0 device together with the software, will stitch the images in real time and evaluated. The OCR engine recognizes text and converts it into editable documents in Microsoft Office and other word processors. Users can then drag and drop text into any text editor for editing. (more…)
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