Month: August 2014
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7 Tips For Taking Creative And Original Photos With A Smartphone
Smartphones are increasingly used to take great pictures. They are sometimes used as a substitute for the digital cameras. YouTube channel Cooph proposes 7 techniques for taking creative and original photos with a smartphone. In this video, Lorenz Holder uses an iPhone 5s for taking these shots but nothing prevents you from trying these techniques with other smartphone models. [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTz4Nhgm_SQ[/youtube] Technique # 1 :…
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Google Wing: Google Tests Its Drone Delivery Project In Australia
Google has done some more trials of its drone delivery system in Australia. Google has been secretly working on this project, entitled Project Wing, for the last two years. If these aerial drones are deployed they could deliver a product at home within few minutes. Google could not remain silent after the announcement by Amazon about its new drone…
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Dyson’s First Robotic Vacuum Cleaner Looks Like A Spy Robot
It seems that the famous British vacuum cleaner manufacturer Dyson, is about to launch a robotic version of its product. On the first view of the teaser video, it looks like a spy robot due to the presence of onboard camera. Codenamed as Dyson N223 project, the famous British manufacturer has relaeased a video teaser on its Youtube…
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Amazon Will Test Its Drone Delivery Service In India
According to the Indian press, this year Amazon could begin a trial of its delivery drone service Amazon Prime Air, near Mumbai and Bangalore. Last month, Amazon had written to the air safety authorities of the United States for the permission to test its proposed drone delivery service Amazon Prime Air in Seattle. The current American law on the…
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Electric Car Manufacturer Tesla Hires Hackers To Secure Its Future Cars
Aware of the risks of piracy that could hurt its reputation, as well as risk the lives of its customers, the electric car manufacturer Tesla Motors is trying to take help from hackers. This will be an elite team of thirty people who will test the safety of these vehicles. While cars are now being equipped with…
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Chairolution: A Bioinspired Exoskeleton To Maintain A Seated position
We all know the advantages of using exoskeleton for people with paralysis due to spinal injuries and walking difficulties. Swiss engineers have thought of another utility of exoskeleton and invented a new type of exoskeleton: the Chairolution. It allows a man to easily maintain the sitting posture for hours without effort. The name Chairolution is composed…
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Desire: A Short Film Showing A Robot Learning New Skills To Remain Competitive
This short animated film highlights how the life of a worker robot is turned upside down when it is faced with more efficient and competitive robot. We present you this mini-movie that shows how the robot learns to use new techniques to have an edge over its competitor droids. This short and super cool animated movie…
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Colour Chaser: A Robot That Creates A Melody From Your Drawing
Making music has never been so much fun! Thanks to a robot designed by a Japanese designer, you only have to make to a nice drawing and Colour Chaser robot changes the color lines into music. We tell you more about this amazing musical innovation! This is Mudam, the Museum of Modern Art, in Luxembourg. You can test the…
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Robosub 2014: The Amazing Competiton Of Submarine Drones
The 17th edition of the international Robosub competition took place in San Diego (USA) in early August. Much less publicized as compared to DARPA Robotics Challenge, the tournament organized by AUVSI (Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International) involves Autononous Underwater Vehicles (AUV) or submarine drones. The aim of the contest sponsored by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) is…
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Scientists Are Building An Entire City To Test New Driverless Cars In Real Conditions
The driverless cars will soon be a part of our daily lives and to ensure their proper working in real world, researchers have devised a very surprising way. They have begun building an entire uninhabited city, to test these vehicles of tomorrow. These are engineers from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor who had this brilliant idea. The Mobility…
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The Drinkable Book Can Save Millions Of Lives By Cleaning The Dirty Water
Each year 3.4 million people die because of diseases caused by contaminated water. Water is Life has attempted to remedy this problem by creating “The Drinkable Book”, each page of the book is a special filter to eliminate almost all kinds of harmful bacteria and get a safe drinking water. We tell you more about this amazing…
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SaviOne: A Futurisic Robot Used By Aloft Hotel California For Room Service
A rather unusual trial is being carried out in a hotel in California. A robot is providing room service to the hotel clients. If the trial is successful, the Aloft hotel chain plans to equip each of its hotel with one or two such robots. During a recent findraising campaign by the the startup Savioke, nobody knew about…
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A Passionate Uses LEGO Bricks To Build A Functional Robotic Arm
The LEGO creations never cease to amaze us. These small bricks have even resulted in some of the innovative and pioneering projects. Here, we show you the work of a LEGO passionate who has managed to make a completely functional robotic arm using LEGO bricks. Diavo Voltaggio is the designer of this project. He has used a…
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German Scientists Control The Flight Of An Aircraft Just By The Power Of Thinking
No doubt the technological progress continues to surprise us: German scientists have managed to control a plane simulator using just the power of thinking. We tell you more about this brain control that could revolutionize the future of aviation. No matter the size, flying an airplane is not within the reach of everyone. Becoming an airline…
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8 Places Where Robots Can Replace Human Beings In The Near Future
Whether its hitchhiking on the roads of Canada or participating in the first robotic Olympics to be held in Tokyo in 2020, robots are continuing to invade our daily lives. We will find them working in some of the most unexpected places. Here’s a scan of the areas where we can foresee their use in near…