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Submission + - Robots could solve the Lionfish ecological disaster (mashable.com)

Submitted by SkinnyGuy on Tuesday March 28, 2017 @09:12AM

SkinnyGuy writes: Lionfish are an invasive species that are destroying our coral reefs ans fisheries. The non-profit RISE (from iRobot's Colin Angle) has a plan to use robots to fish these Lionfish and serve them up to us on a delicious, golden platter.

Submission + - E Ink goes full-color (mashable.com)

Submitted by SkinnyGuy on Tuesday May 24, 2016 @10:12AM

SkinnyGuy writes: The reflective display company finally figured out how to make those ultra tiny balls produce 32,000 colors in one super-low-powered display. It's a breakthrough for E Ink, display advertising and, maybe someday, e-readers and digital photo frames.

Submission + - Roomba Celebrates 10 Years of Cleaning Up After You (mashable.com)

Submitted by SkinnyGuy on Monday September 17, 2012 @10:43AM

SkinnyGuy writes: Did you know that dogs, cats and babies have ridden iRobot's iconic home cleaning robot since it was introduced exactly a decade ago? It's been a wild ride for the world's best known home-cleaning bot. This is a quick look back.

Submission + - iRobot's Robot Doc is Ready to Heal You (mashable.com)

Submitted by SkinnyGuy on Tuesday July 24, 2012 @02:02PM

SkinnyGuy writes: Some of us complain their doctors are too stiff, lack warmth and are too robotic. But calling such doctors “robots” may be a disservice to RP-Vita — the latest telepresence, healthcare bot from InTouch Health and iRobot.

RP-VITA (Remote Presence Virtual + Independent Telemedicine Assistant), unveiled this week at the Clinical Innovations Forum in Santa Barbara, is a remote-controlled telepresence robot that combines InTouch’s “telemedicine” technology and the autonomous navigation innovations introduced in iRobots’ AVA robot at CES in 2011.

Submission + - Inside a Last-Ditch Effort to Save the Space Shutt (mashable.com)

Submitted by SkinnyGuy on Monday December 19, 2011 @03:05PM

SkinnyGuy writes: NASA’s Space Shuttle could have flown again as early as 2014 if a secret effort to repurpose them for commercial flight had succeeded.

Submission + - Antitrust Case Over, Microsoft ties IE 10 to Win 8 (crn.com)

Submitted by deadeyefred on Wednesday October 26, 2011 @03:22PM

deadeyefred writes: With the last vestiges of Microsoft's U.S. antitrust consent decree expiring earlier this year, the company is again tying its browser tightly to Windows. In pre-release versions of IE 10 and Windows 8, IE 10 cannot be uninstalled and is required to enable the new "Metro"-style apps.

Submission + - Artificial Super-Skin Could Transform Phones, Robo (mashable.com)

Submitted by

SkinnyGuy

on Monday October 24, 2011 @04:21PM

SkinnyGuy writes: "Stanford University’s new “super skin” is a thin, highly flexible, super-stretchable, nearly transparent skin that can respond to touch and pressure, even when it’s being wrung out like a sponge."

Recalling Windows 1.0 At 25 Years 384

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday November 08, 2010 @10:30AM from the if-you-knew-then dept.

alphadogg writes "When Microsoft released the very first version of Windows nearly 25 years ago, on Nov. 20, 1985, it was late to the game and little used. Apple had already brought graphical user interfaces to computers with Macintosh more than a year earlier, while DOS systems dominated the market for IBM and IBM-compatible PCs. No one who used this first version was likely to have predicted that Windows would completely dominate the PC market 25 years later..."

Scientists Turn Skin Into Blood 229

Posted by samzenpus on Sunday November 07, 2010 @11:13PM from the horror-movie dept.

Breakthru writes "In an important breakthrough, scientists at McMaster University have discovered how to make human blood from adult human skin. The discovery, published in the prestigious science journal Nature today, could mean that in the foreseeable future people needing blood for surgery, cancer treatment or treatment of other blood conditions like anemia will be able to have blood created from a patch of their own skin to provide transfusions. Clinical trials could begin as soon as 2012."

Submission + - Violent Video Games: Our Responsibility, Not Court (pcmag.com)

Submitted by SkinnyGuy on Monday November 01, 2010 @04:22PM

SkinnyGuy writes: No matter how the Supreme Court decides the fate of California's controversial violent video game law, parents must have the final responsibility and say.

Comment Why is 3D TV Stumbling (Score 1) 535

by SkinnyGuy on Thursday October 14, 2010 @10:43AM (#33893944) Attached to: Huge Shocker — 3D TVs Not Selling

PCMag.com says "If there's one thing consumers won't put up with, it's the fracturing of the basic television-viewing experience. Not only do all current 3D TVs require glasses, they're not all using the same ones. Some knuckle-head manufacturers are even charging extra for these glasses, which may only work with a fraction of today's 3D TVs. Imagine if you bought glasses that only focused on buildings and signs but not cars and people.

Submission + - Paper-Thin Rechargeable Batteries Provide Bendable (gearlog.com)

Submitted by SkinnyGuy on Wednesday September 22, 2010 @08:28AM

SkinnyGuy writes: New carbon nanotube-based technology could literally allow companies to paint layers of electricity-holding lithium-ion on standard pieces of paper. The possibilities are endless.

Submission + - Hands On: Unboxing the Fake Intel Core i7-920

Submitted by SkinnyGuy on Wednesday March 10, 2010 @10:57AM

SkinnyGuy writes: The only thing more remarkable than NewEggg shipping fake Core i7 CPUs to customers is getting your hands on one and checking it out. Apparently there are only a couple hundred of these things in existence and Gearlog somehow managed to get and unbox one. The images are fascinating.

Submission + - Apple Paradox: Closed Culture, Free-Thinking Fans (xconomy.com) 1

Submitted by waderoush on Monday January 25, 2010 @08:57AM

waderoush writes: The secrecy surrounding the expected Apple tablet computer is only the latest example of the company's famously closed and controlling culture. Yet millions of designers, musicians, and other creative professionals love their Apple products, and the Apple brand is almost synonymous with free-thinking creativity. How can a company whose philosophy of information sharing is so at odds with that of most of its customers be so successful? This Xconomy essay explores three possible explanations. 1) Closed innovation, overseen by a guiding genius like Steve Jobs, may be the only way to build such coherent, compelling products. 2) Apple's hardware turns out to be more 'open' than the company intended — Job originally wanted to keep third-party apps off the iPhone, for example. 3) Related to #1: customers are pragmatic about quality, and the open source and free software movements haven't produced anything remotely as useful as Mac OS X and the iPhone.

Comment What It Costs to Run Your Printer (Score 1) 970

by SkinnyGuy on Friday December 04, 2009 @04:27PM (#30328324) Attached to: What Do You Do When Printers Cost Less Than Ink?

The cost of your printer is almost meaningless. Focus on what it'll cost to run the thing--long term. This PC Magazine article should help.

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