As soon as we saw Georgia Tech’s Shimi we wanted to how many sleepless nights we’d have to spend waiting for one to proudly display on our desk. And really that’s the whole idea behind the iPhone-enabled dancing robot: bringing some sophisticated robotic concepts to the consumer in an adorable little package. Now the wall-eyed Read More
You don’t have to wait for an FAA rethink to use your iPad on an airliner below 10000 feet — if you’re part of an American Airlines crew that is. As of this month the air carrier is the first cleared by the FAA to use iPads in the cockpit at every point during a Read More
‘Fake Steve Jobs’ calls the iPhone maker a copycat
Remember NEC’s LaVie Z Ultrabook we first heard about at Computex? It’s a super light (875g / 1.93 lbs) and thin (15mm / 0.59-inch) magnesium alloy system running Windows 7 that’s only available in Japan and we just spotted it here at IDF 2012 in San Francisco. Spec-wise you’re looking at a 1.9GHz third-generation (Ivy Read More
Google is well-known for projects with unexpected origins. It’s almost natural then that the code Google used to build a web course has led to a full-fledged tool for online education. The open-source Course Builder project lets anyone make their own learning resources complete with scheduled activities and lessons if they’ve got some skill with Read More
More Info Amazon announces 7- and 8.9-inch Kindle Fire HDs pricing starts at $199 Kindle Fire HD 7-inch hands-on (Update: video) Amazon Kindle Fire review It was 10 months ago that we had a doppelgänger in our midst. Amazon unleashed the Kindle Fire to the world and we spent much of the beginning of our Read More
Ultrabooks and just about any other Windows 8 device you can think of will come with touch Intel tells CNET. [Read more]
This week’s news includes the rare Common File Format for UltraViolet resurfacing as well as a new DHD initiative from Fox that could push downloadable movies forward faster than ever before. That’s before we even dive into all the news from CEDIA 2012 and take a peek at the just-released Ceton Companion mobile app for Read More
