I should start considering more fiber enclosures for electronics, look how awesome this soft crawly earth robot is! However, creators Osamu Iwasaki and Hanakomet still call it RobotKnit, despite the fact that it is clearly crochet. After watching the video on repeat for the last fifteen minutes, I think I can forgive them. [via Fashioning Technolog y] Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Robotics | Digg this!
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Crawling crochet earth
Motorola Backflip spotted in the wilds of China Motorola’s Backflip has yet to springboard itself over to AT&T, but those who call China home can hop on the bandwagon right away. Said phone — which sports a full touchscreen and a physical QWERTY thanks to the horizontal clamshell design — is now available from Moto’s Chinese portal for 4,298 Chinese yuan (in unlocked form), which translates to right around $630. While the rest of the world awaits the phone’s launch later this quarter , you can hit up Mobile.163.com for a downright beautiful gallery of in the wild shots. Go on, it’s safe
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Motorola Backflip spotted in the wilds of China
Inmarsat’s new phone trialed en route to June launch, definitely won’t be mistaken for a RAZR If you live your life one oil rig, one Siberian gas field, or one Antarctic base at a time, odds are you’re precisely the target demographic for Inmarsat’s new handset being rolled out later this year. Oddly, despite the company’s decades-long history of providing satellite phone service, the IsatPhone Pro is apparently the first model ‘purpose-built for its network’ with awesome features like Bluetooth, text messaging, email support, and GPS capability that can be injected into outgoing text messages (you know, for when you finally strike oil somewhere in the Mariana Trench). Anyhow, the company has announced that the first calls have now been successfully made using the handset on the way to retail availability this June — but if you have to ask for a price (either for the phone or a per-minute rate), odds are it’s not for you
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As part of his 2011 budget plan, President Barack Obama will propose repealing of the cell phone tax. Obama is scheduled to release his proposed tax and spending plan on Monday. If the cell phone tax is repealed this year, taxpayers would be off the hook for all of 2010, said the official, who spoke
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Microsoft has unveiled its latest keyboard designed specifically for gamers. The SideWinder X4 claims to handle the problem of ghosting — where it’s impossible to determine exactly which of multiple keys have been pressed — by detecting up to 26 keys at any one time. Quite who can press 26 keys in one go is another matter, but the facility is there in case you have two friends round to help you. In addition, the keyboard offers macro recording, allowing gamers to record a series of commands to a single key, in addition to a macro repeat feature.
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Microsoft intros SideWinder X4 anti-ghosting gaming keyboard
Sony Ericsson have added a business phone to their line up of eco-friendly handsets. The multi-tasking Windows Aspen joins the Elm and the Hazel in the Sony Ericsson Greenheart range. The phone’s general features reflect the business niche that Sony..
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Sony Ericsson’s new Greenheart phone – the Aspen, an eco-Blackberry
Here’s something refreshing: rather than question the electric car’s feasibility based on how much electricity they’ll consume, The Economist points out a more practical problem: the weakness of the US power grid, and the potential overwhelming the power distribution system by environmentally-conscious early urbanites: A study done a few years ago by the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, Washington, suggested there was enough idle generating capacity in America to recharge three quarters of the country’s 230m cars if they were plug-ins of one sort of another—provided they only connected to the grid during off-peak hours, and preferably in the coal-rich midwest. But the vast majority of new plug-ins will be located in a handful of urban centres on the east and west coasts, which, unlike the midwest, do not have huge reserves of cheap, coal-fired generating capacity. Nor can they import it easily from the middle of the country, given the fragile nature of the grid.
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Can US Power Handle Electric Cars?
If you have an iPhone / iPod Touch and a pile of cash burning a hole in your pocket, you need to check out the AcuTouch 9500 massage chair which can be controlled with your iPhone via Bluetooth. A special application called HT-Connect gives you the ability to choose from 16 programs that “fit your needs and desires” – Morning Wake Up, Rejuvenate, Surrender, Clarify, Sports/Back Therapy, Focus, Posture, Sore Muscle Relief, Sleep and more. I’m a little worried about the “Surrender” program… The app is free, but the massage chair’s $5999+ price tag will put you in the poor … [ visit site to read more ] Filed in categories: Home Tech , News , Spotlight Gadgets , iPhone related Tagged: Furniture , iPhone Another vibrator app for the iPhone that isn’t kinky originally appeared on The Gadgeteer on February 2, 2010 at 10:30 am.
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Digitimes doesn’t have the best track record when it comes to rumours, so take this with a grain of salt, but they say that they’ve spoken to Michael Hsu, General Manager of Nokia ( NYSE: NOK ) Taiwan, and have learned that Nokia isn’t going to make any Symbian 2 handsets and instead is going to jump straight to Symbian 3. For those unfamiliar with how Symbian development works, there are 5 versions of the operating system being built at the same time
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While Brad’s advice might work, it’s a good way to get your cell phone service cut off or receive a $10000 phone bill. The major phone companies disallow tethering in their user agreements, and penalties for tethering range from account …
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Free advice: buy a dongle – Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report
The Conductive booster pack is the perfect companion for our Fashioning Technology book by Syuzi Pakhchyan . The kit contains a collection of conductive materials that are often only available in much larger quantities, making it a more affordable way to sample various materials. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Maker Shed Store | Digg this!
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In the Maker Shed: Conductive booster pack
We all have old gadgets lying around the house. Sometimes, we give them as hand me downs to family members or friends but sometimes, we just forget about them. If you are in the UK and you can relate to this, then you should consider getting rid of those gadgets and do something good while you’re at it. UK charity Computer Aid is looking for people who are willing to donate their old gadgets.
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Get Rid Of Unwanted Gadgets For “Good”
Bell is proud to announce the availability of Enhanced 911 (Phase Two) services for their subscribers as well as Solo Mobile clients with compatible handsets. The main difference between this new service and the old one is that responders can now accurately pinpoint the location of the caller via GPS and triangulation through the cellular towers within the vicinity. As the case is in most emergency situations, time is of great value, and with this new E911 (Phase Two) system in place, finding the location of the caller is now much easier and faster. Furthermore, thanks to this early roll by Bell, Canada is now in the record books as the first country in the world to implement this enhanced emergency call system on a nationwide basis. Of course, for this to work, you need to have a compatible handset.
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Bell rolls out Enhanced 911 (Phase Two) services in Canada
DigiTimes is reporting that mobile giant Nokia plans to forgo Symbian V2 and release Symbian V3, complete with multitouch functions, in the second half of 2010. Perhaps even more exciting than that, was what Digi’s sources had to say about Symbian 4: “Symbian version 4 is believed to be based on the Qt cross-platform application development framework developed by Trolltech. The Qt will allow software developers to develop application software supporting Symbian and Maemo platforms simultaneously.” Nokia acquired Trolltech back in June, 2008. While no details of Maemo 6 were revealed, the article does state that we’ll get our first look at Maemo 6 handsets by the second half of 2010.
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Kombi Sports makes high-performance cold weather gear. They offer gloves that not only keep your hands warm, but they also allow you to control your iPod. The gloves feature an integrated wireless iPod remote control with Fibretronics technology, a wireless receiver for your iPod, a goggle wipe, adjustable wrist strap, and a cord lock cinch cuff closure. The IRIP gloves are available for men or women, and in a couple of fabric styles for each. They are about $150. (Men’s gloves are … [ visit site to read more ] Filed in categories: Audio / Video Gear , News , Spotlight Gadgets Tagged: gloves , iPod accessory Kombi Sports IRIP Gloves Control Your iPod originally appeared on The Gadgeteer on February 2, 2010 at 9:55 am.
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24, Icosatetrapeds have 24 legs. This robot, built by [Monica Anderson] back in 2005 has 24 pneumatic soft legs. The motion is fantastic, like watching some kind of sea creature walk. Though it only goes about 1 meter per minute, we just couldn’t stop watching. The compressors were scavenged from some military equipment designed for nerve gas detection, and the brain is a mac mini
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Icosatetrapedal robot
So far, Palm’s Pre has been knocked off in China. In the rest of the world, no manufacturer felt motivated to touch the form factor so far. Given that the folks at Alcatel’s always had a slightly strange taste (I knew an insider there), the look of the OT-980 does not surprise me too much: According to the French site frandroid , the box will drop in four to five months. It will have an MSM7227 CPU, 192MB of RAM and a QVGA screen
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Alcatel releases Android-powered Pre knockoff
RIM’s unannounced BlackBerry Pearl 9100 has been spotted in some new photos which indicate that the smartphone might be launched by T-Mobile in the US, or by Wind in Canada. As seen in the images below, the Pearl 9100 supports WCDMA bands I, IV and VIII – meaning 2100MHz, 1700MHz (AWS) and 900MHz. Since T-Mobile and Wind are the only North American carriers that use the 1700MHz spectrum, they’re almost certainly among the ones to offer the 9100.
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It’s not quite as cool as whatever the iPad will become, but it’s useful stuff. The cool cats at QuickerTek have released a new wireless nCard accessory for older MacBook notebooks and the Mac mini. The nCard extends Wi-Fi compatibility on the A, B, G and N standard and installs in the internal Airport card slot, with similar complexity to installing RAM chips.
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QuickerTek Releases Wireless nCard for Older MacBooks, Mac Minis
After last month introduced to its users , Nokia today announced the availability of games Ovi Maps Racing in Ovi Store as free for limited offer. Ovi Maps Racing gives racing game enthusiasts a totally unique gaming experience combining map navigation and racing. Utilizing actual map data by NAVTEQ and the GPS technology of the mobile device, Ovi Maps Racing allows players to create a racing track out of their own physical location, whether at home or in the office. Racing is experienced with easy and enjoyable touch controls and there are three racing cars to choose from.
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Ovi Maps Racing ready downloaded in Ovi Store
Kaspersky Mobile Security 9.0 is aimed at providing comprehensive protection for mobile devices. The product provides the following options: Scanning of the file system for viruses and other types of malware on demand or according to a preset schedule; Antiviral scanning of files on access; Quarantining of infected files and the remedying of some of them; updating of databases on demand or according to a preset schedule via GPRS-Internet, etc. For manually downloading Kaspersky Mobile Security Update files your self. This method applies to hacked phones only with open4all patch and tried with Xplore only. In Xplore go to configuration and check “show hidden files” 1
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How to updates Kaspersky Mobile Security 9