Tag: .uk
Robot vehicle goes up stairs, over bridge of freaks
The fellas at Boing Boing are wondering if anybody knows what this robot vehicle sighted in Japan is exactly. Apparently it can climb curbs and stairs, and navigate crowds, so well that the occupant seemed relatively blasé about his…
Power Aware Glowing Cable
Instead of the same old rubberized black power cable, the Power Aware Cord pulses brighter and brighter as you draw more electricity. Developed by Anton Gustafsson and Magnus Gyllenswärd for STATIC!, the idea is to draw attention to not…
Microsoft to offer Office Live UK beta from November 15th
Microsoft have been beta testing their Office Live suite of web hosting and business tools in the US for a while now, and whilst they're ready to shift to a fully working version on November 15th, other selected countries including…
Vodafone UK offers unlimited group calls for £5 a month
From tomorrow, Vodafone UK is offering its customers a new Vodafone Family tariff that will allow groups of four or six people to make free calls at any time, providing they are all Vodafone customers. £5 per month gives you…
Tyco N.S.E.C.T. Robotic Attack Creature
Sporting a very elaborate web site with all kinds of games which I only investigated as part of my solemn duty, I report back that the Tyco N.S.E.C.T. Robotic Attack Creature is a remote-controlled arthopod that you can actually…
HAL 5 Robotic Suit takes you to the mountaintop
It's not the oversized Mechwarrior battle gear we think of when we think robot exoskeleton, but then, it's intended for day-to-day use. The HAL 5 Robotic Suit, by Tsukuba University engineering professor Yoshiyuki Sankai, is a vaguely Tron-looking outfit…
MacWorld's MacExpo UK "Best of Show" awards
MacWorld have been busy at last weekend's UK MacExpo in London, and have awarded ten products "Best of Show". The products must have either been debuted at the show, or be very new and generating significant buzz at the show….
Smart Table lets you put food in it, then on it
Perfect for corporate environs where appliances don't fit the decor, or tiny flats in urban conurbations where space is at a super-premium, the Smart Table from Gorenje contains a circular refrigerator in the base, which rises from the center…
AIST's New Robotic Hand implies world of techno-Simpsons to come
Our new robot overlords will likely have three fingers, not four, if the new AIST robotic hand for blue-collar robots is any indication. Robot hands in the past have either been overly pretty, fragile or specialized, whereas these may…
Britain's Internet divide widening, research suggests
New research from Point Topic suggests that the divide between those with access to the Internet, and those without, could be widening. Whilst those with Net access are accessing it at increasing speeds and putting more of their lives online,…