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Saturday, October 16, 2004

Found Photo: Robot Plays the Drums

P.E.A.R.T. -- Pneumatic and Electronic Actuated RoboT -- is a robot that listens to MIDI files and plays along on any drum set using the MIDI file's drum tracks.

Link to this item. 3:39 PM

Thursday, October 14, 2004

VW Working On Diesel/Electric Hybrid

Volkswagen is working on a diesel/electric hybrid concept car that goes 122 mph and gets really, really good gas mileage. The company had previously poo-poo'd the whole hybrid idea.

Link to this item. 8:20 PM

Man Sends E-mail, Plays Game Using Only Thought

A quadriplegic man has been upgraded with a chip that enables him to send and receive e-mail and play computer games using only his thoughts. In June, surgeons implanted the device, which contains 100 electrodes connected to his cortex, and sends wireless signals to a computer. It's the ultimate joystick.

Link to this item. 7:56 PM

Tuesday, October 12, 2004

Uncle Sam Outsources New Biometric U.S. Passport to Israel

The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) has awarded its gigantic "smart passport" project to Israel-based SuperCom, Ltd. The new passports will contain hard to forge embedded microchips containing biometric data from the holder. Some 50 million smart passports are likely to be issued over the next five years.

Link to this item. 5:25 PM

Microsoft Patents Video-On-Demand?

Microsoft has been granted a U.S. patent for a large number of methods that enable video-on-demand and related HTML-based "interactive programming."

Link to this item. 10:19 AM

Found Video: Nokia 'Mystery' TV Commercials

An anonymous poster uploaded TV commercials advertising Nokia N-Gage gaming phones to the Adland blog. Here come the Nokia TV commercial videos. (props, obviously, to Adland)

Link to this item. 10:11 AM

Wireless P2P Tamagotchi On Your Mobile Phone

Bandai, the irresponsible Japanese company responsible for the now faded Tamagotchi craze, will make software available November 23 that will enable iMode phone users to interact via infrared with the IR version of Tamagotchi gadgets in the same way that the new IR gadgets interact with each other. Why anyone would want to do this, I have no idea.

Link to this item. 7:33 AM

Monday, October 11, 2004

Four-Wheel Segway Invented

Here's something from the what's-the-point? department: The first-ever four-wheel Segway Human Transporter.

Link to this item. 11:47 AM

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