Month: October 2014
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Pi-Top: World’s First 3D Printed Raspberry Pi Laptop
The Pi-Top is a DIY laptop that has been constructed using Raspberry Pi board, a 13-inch screen and a 3D printed hull. Its designers describe it as a platform for introduction to programming and computers. Equipping oneself with a cheap PC laptop while at the same time learning to build it, that’s what the project Pi-Top is. It…
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Amazing!!! Engineers Achieve Invisibilty Just Using 4 Lenses
The concept of invisibility has always inspired fiction stories and movies. Two researchers from the University of Rochester have developed a system that uses only four lenses to hide an object. Their system uses cheap, readily available and off the shelf components. We tell you more about this technological innovation. What if Harry Potter’s cloak of…
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ROSA™ Spine: A High Tech Assistant Robot For Spine Surgery
Medtech is a company specializing in the design, development and commercialization of surgical assistance robots. Its latest product is ROSA Spine™, its a new assistant robot used in minimally invasive surgery of the spine. Medtech launched in 2002, is an example of French success in robotics. Launched in 2013, the revenues of company are up by…
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Thaw: A Revolutionary Smartphone App To Easily Control Your Desktop
A novel smartphone application named as Thaw allows you to interact with other computing device just using the touch interface of your smartphone screen. Developed by the Tangible Media Group at MIT, the system allows you to manipulate files and multimedia content, as well as, transfer it from one device to another. You can also…
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DASH: The Cockroach Inspired Robot Can Survive A Fall Of 28 Meters
The robot designers of UC Berkeley have been inspired by the robustness of cockroaches and their ability to climb walls, as well as, withstand drops from the heights of more than 28 meters. We tell you more. Unlike the normal people who consider robots as repugnant, scientists consider cockroaches as quite interesting to study. They have…