Boston Dynamics released a new video of BigDog the other day. The improvements since last year’s demo are absolutely incredible. BigDog can now maneuver up and down rugged hills, balance on ice and jump. I’m not an avid fan of exclamation marks, but wow! In my honest opinion this quadruped is the most life-like robot [...]
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By all likelihood you’ve heard of the vodka company’s Absolut campaigns. Recently they launched Absolut Machines, a new campaign that’ll be running for a year and centers around two artificial creativity projects; AI systems that compose music on accompanying mechanical instruments and can be watched & interacted with via live video feeds.
The Absolut Machines
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I recently came across news of a device that geeked me out. Its a neckband that can detect and analyze neural firings when we think about saying something, and translate them into audible words via speech synthesizer. Beyond the obvious use of bettering the lives of people who’ve lost their ability to speak, it could [...]
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Sleep Waking is an art project that uses EEG and EKG to record brainwaves and heart activity of a sleeping person and feeds them into a humanoid robot (a Kondo KHR-2HV). The robot turns the data into an interpretive dance. In short, the robot dances your dreams. In addition, rapid eye movement is used to [...]
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Have you ever wanted to control your computer with your mind? I have. And come next December maybe we will. It’s been almost a year since I first talked about Emotiv Systems and the company’s EPOC headset. They’ve stayed somewhat secretive since then (crypticness and stealth that also extended to my email correspondence with them). [...]
After much messing I got the seetheface wordpress plugin running on wordpress 2.5
This is the first video post created with it to test it.
Title: First Video Post
Title: First Video Post – Take 2
I’ve been waiting for this little wonder box too long that I had forgot about it… until yesterday… i went to apple’s website and it was there, ready to be ordered?! I just couldn’t resist, so I went to the italian web apple store to see if it was there too… it is!! I immediately [...]
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More than webcams, these are network cameras that are often used for security.
With the trick (read: special query) described in this video you can have google list all indexed network cameras…. not all are reachable, but you can be sure to have a few hours of fun if you like watching them.
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To all of you who thought that the Matrix was just a mix of special effects and magical technical tricks, here’s a video that will prove you that out there there are real “Neos”.
Enjoy!
Matrix – For Real…joe Eigo – video powered by Metacafe
