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POPSHP Claims Laptop will deliver all-day computing Well lets hope their claims are an improvement upon their current models as I get about an hour if I am lucky. lol. But seriously that would be amazing, now all we need is mobile broadband to get up to an acceptable speed.
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POPSThe 'Depressionmobile' Americans should be ashamed...instead of cheering and promoting such a thing. It looks like a rikshaw with a battery. If this is the very best that American ingenuity can produce, we are, indeed, in a very sad situation. Disgusting. Speaking of batteries...I heard that to replace the battey (which may last a little over a year) would cost more than the can-on-wheels. Much like my Dell laptop; a new laptop is more economical than purchasing a new battery for it. Was that their intention????
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POPS Robots and Humans: Intel say equal by 2050
Robots: From the Factory Floor to Your Kitchen - Robots today are primarily used in the factory environment, designed to perform a single task repeatedly and bolted down. To make robotics personal, robots need to move and manipulate objects in cluttered and dynamic human environments, according to Rattner. They need to be cognizant of their surroundings by sensing and recognizing movement in a dynamic physical world, and learn to adapt to new scenarios. Rattner demonstrated two working personal robot prototypes developed at Intel’s research labs. One of the demonstrations showed electric field pre-touch that has been built into a robot hand. The technique is a novel sensing modality used by fish but not humans, so they can “feel” objects before they even touch them. The other demonstration was a complete autonomous mobile manipulation robot that can recognize faces and interpret and execute commands as generic as “please clean this mess” using state-of-the-art motion planning, manipula
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POPSConfessions of a Wi-Fi Thief Some people thought of creative names for their networks: ParisBrooklyn, MessageInaBottle. Some were boring: linksys, NETGEAR, default. I was always happy to see the boring ones, because the people who don't bother thinking of clever names for their home networks are the same people who don't bother to password-protect them (A website called ThinkGeek.com sells a T shirt with a battery-powered wi-fi detector that displays the ambient signal strength wherever you happen to be standing. It's supercool, though if I'm too cheap to pay for broadband, I'm definitely too cheap to spend $30 on a T shirt.)
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POPSSay Goodbye to power cords and battery packs This sounds really interesting. It's not in the practical stages yet, but how convenient would it be to charge your cellphone, mp3 player or laptop without having to plug it in? I know in my house, free outlets are hard to come by, so this is something I can really get behind.
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POPSApple Macbook Air When I saw this I started drooling and (nearly) headed straight to Ebay. So here are some pics. Note however the "fatal flaw" according to Gizmodo. You can't open it up. To be honest, I don't really see that as an issue. I think many laptop owners, especially those that go for eye-candy never go near the inside of their laptop, or change the battery.
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POPSDisposable Batteries For Your Cell Phone If Bic can make this technology work it would be a pretty huge development for the world of portable electronics. We need new sources of power for the new generation of wireless, juice-hungry gadgets, and fuel cells would deliver significantly more power than today's rechargables. Imagine using your phone for weeks without having to charge it.
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POPSDailyRotation It's sort of mad, but somehow good for a mass overview of all current stories, by using the mouse to sweep over the headlines. Great list of technically-focussed feeds. Other than that, zero features - eg no OPML in/out, you'd have to paste your own feeds in.
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