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Dyson Preparing a Roomba Killer? 243

Posted by CowboyNeal on Friday March 30 2007, @01:46AM
from the products-that-suck dept.

An anonymous reader writes "New Scientist's technology blog reports that Dyson, the UK company that reinvented the vacuum cleaner, is recruiting robotics engineers. They're looking for people with experience of machine vision and mobile robots that create their own maps. Is Dyson hoping to take on the Roomba with a much more sophisticated machine?"

Showing Cancer the Door

Submitted by

webdoodle

on Friday March 30 2007, @01:27AM

webdoodle writes "A new study has developed a method of tricking the immune system in to rejecting cancer in the same fashion as the body rejects organs from an incompatible organ donor."

The Perfect Game: A Wii Playing Lego Robot

Submitted by

BattleBricks

on Friday March 30 2007, @01:05AM

BattleBricks writes "I got a Wii this week, and so I figured, why not build a Lego robot that can bowl a perfect game:

http://www.battlebricks.com/wiigobot/

I call it "The WiigoBot"."

Top Ranked Story on Digg Contains Stolen Content

Submitted by

allsux

on Friday March 30 2007, @12:35AM

allsux writes "A small-time blogger posted a blurb on a freakish and funny GoogleMap function yesteray which subsequently was linked to Digg.com. A big-business high-traffic site stole the content from this small-time blog and put it on their big-time page. As the time I'm writing this: the original post has only 4 Diggs, while the copy-cat post has 3,888. I guess all's fair in love, war and big business ethics. For the full scoop visit www.allsux.com."

Gentoo on Xbox 360 without Special Hardware

Submitted by NiteStar on Friday March 30 2007, @12:21AM

NiteStar writes "Xorloser released a new shader hack for the King Kong Xbox360 game that will allow you to boot the 'Xenon' modified Gentoo LiveCD made by Cpasjuste that includes the XeLL bootloader by Tmbinc on your Xbox 360 console without a serial connection. As this hack uses the Hypervisor Vulnerabilty it'll only work on Xbox360 kernel 4532 or 4548 (downgrade is not possible since Microsoft blew up an eFuse in CPU, upgrade is possible however). To run the modified King Kong game you will have to flash your Xbox 360 DVD-ROM drive with a modified firmare."

Trolltech is porting Qt to Win CE / Windows Mobile

Submitted by ceallaigh on Friday March 30 2007, @12:18AM

ceallaigh writes "Since October 2006 Trolltech has been porting Qt 4.x to Windows CE 5.0 and Windows Mobile 5.0. The plan is to have a Technology Preview ready late this summer, and have a final release together with the rest of Qt 4.4.0 sometime next year.

http://labs.trolltech.com/blogs/2007/03/28/were-po rting-qt-4-to-windows-ce-and-windows-mobile/"

Fastest Notebook Drive Reviewed

Submitted by Deathspawner on Thursday March 29 2007, @08:29PM

Deathspawner writes "Seagate recently announced their new Momentus 7200.2 160GB notebook drive, the largest drive available for those speeds. Techgage has the first review on the web and is left impressed. Even though it's the fastest drive available at that density, it proves to be a better value than other 7200 RPM 2.5" drives on the market."

Plextor Launches USB HDTV Receiver

Submitted by

scott3778

on Thursday March 29 2007, @12:57PM

scott3778 writes "Plextor released a cool USB receiver yesterday that lets users watch air-to-air HDTV on their computers...for free! http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,2109363 ,00.asp"