Filed under: Transportation
Having already accomplished the considerable feat of getting
a robot to balance on its own two feet, engineers at Korea’s Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (otherwise known as KAIST) now appears to have turned their attention to us humans, although they haven’t exactly taken the most original approach. As you can see above, the Institute’s so-called “Hubo-Way” takes a fair bit of inspiration from the Segway, although the technology has supposedly been “modified” to some extent. From the looks of it, the most significant of those modifications is the actual cost of the device, which the engineers say is half that of the Segway. Of course, there’s no indication as to when or if the device might actually be commercialized, so it looks like you’ll have to be content with the current crop of
Segway-esque if you’re not willing to throw down for the real thing.
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Office Depot Featured Gadget: Xbox 360 Platinum System Packs the power to bring games to life!
If you’ve got a big block of free time, the best way to put that to use is to relax, have fun, decompress from a stressful day, or spend time with a loved one. But if you’ve just got a little chunk — say 5 or 10 minutes — there’s no time to do any of the fun stuff.
It’s been a tick since we’d heard anything out of PureDepth, but apparently, the company and its Multi-Layer Display technology are still livin’ it up. Making a comeback with Samsung, the two firms are jointly debuting the “world’s largest” MLD LCD TV, which rings up at 46-inches diagonally. The actual monitor is being showcased at the Society for Information Display conference in Long Beach, California, and blew past the previous champion which was holding strong at 30-inches. PureDepth is describing its technology as a “a layered, multi-dimensional (using real depth between two or more LCD panels) viewing innovation that enables users to simultaneously view two separate fields of data on one monitor,” which is simply a fancy way of suggesting that users can experience “3D-like images” sans unsightly goggles. Unfortunately, there’s no word on whether this unit is actually slated for commercialization, but considering the somewhat sour reputation that other 3D devices already have, it’s got a rough road to hoe.
[Thanks, Chris B.]
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Office Depot Featured Gadget: Xbox 360 Platinum System Packs the power to bring games to life!
Filed under: Storage
Sony looks to be making steady progress with its attempts at
holographic recording, recently announcing that it’s managed to bump up its previous single-layer Micro-Reflector recording technique to a full four-layers. As with the previous system, Sony used a standard blue-violet semiconductor laser diode to write on the 250 μm-thick photopolymer recording layer, with nothing more than a few optical parts added to change the focal point depth in order to write on multiple layers. They’ve apparently still got quite a bit more work to do, however, as they’ve reportedly discovered that the reproduction signal gets significantly weaker by the time it reaches the fourth layer (about half that of the first layer), with the data transfer rate also suffering as a result. Sony seems confident that it’ll be able to overcome that problem soon enough though, even going so far as to boast that it’ll one day have a 500GB disc made up of twenty layers packing 25GB apiece.
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Office Depot Featured Gadget: Xbox 360 Platinum System Packs the power to bring games to life!
Filed under: Wireless, Networking
Last fall, NEC took its WARPSTAR lineup into the realm of draft-N with the Aterm WR8200N, and thanks to all this Draft 2.0 hubbub that’s going around, apparently it figured now would be a good time to hop on the next bandwagon. The Aterm WR8400N four-port router and Aterm WL300NC PCMCIA card both tout theoretical transfer rates of around 300Mbps, are backwards compatible with 802.11a/b/g devices, support “Multi SSID” / WEP / WAP protocols, and can automatically detect and connect to signals in both the 2.4GHz and 5GHz bands. No word just yet on price nor availability, but we’re sure it’ll get lost in the crowd of similar alternatives before too long anyway.
[Via Impress]
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Office Depot Featured Gadget: Xbox 360 Platinum System Packs the power to bring games to life!
