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- Paul Ericson offers a peek at a prototype of his Flex-Actuated Bistable Dome Shape Sensor array on his Website. Apparently this is not your typical tactile dome like we had in calculators in the 80's. Instead, they are actuated by flexure of the material holding the domes around the edges. The current prototype has an array of individual sensors going to a matrix of LEDs to show the object being sensed. The next step would be to multiplex the sensors using a microcontroller embebbed into the sensor array itself and provide a simply high-level data stream back to the prosthetic limb or...... |
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- A bionic hand that can allow the wearer to touch and feel is being developed in Europe as an initiative of the IST program. The idea is to give a amputee a replacement natural sensory feedback robotic limb. The CYBERHAND is a fully sensitized five fingered robotic hand that has 16 Degrees of Freedom provided by 6 tiny motors. CYBERHAND works similarly to a real hand that pulls tendons via muscles by working cables via the tiny motors. CYBERHAND uses Longitudinal IntraFascicular Electrodes (LIFEs) to connect the hand to the wearer's nervous system and includes sensors for tension, force, joint angle, end stroke and contact. |
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- A motorized 15" tall replica voice-controlled R2-D2 Robot is now on sale at Hammacher Schlemmer & Co. for $120. The little guy can understand 40 spoken commands and can play games like tag or be a room sentry. Of course it has the famous R2-D2 beeps and whistles but it also has sound bites from the Star Wars movies and can even dance to the Cantina music. Apparently, it also has games and has special secret features ($109! |
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- The Scribbler robot is a combined effort of three companies: Parallax, Inc.; Element Producs, Inc.; and Bueno Systems, Inc. It's a very inexpensive differential steer robot that's an ideal platform for children to learn on or hackers to use as a base. |
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- MIT has started The Open Mind Commonsense Project for gathering information on all the common sense stuff that humans know. Intelligence has a lot to do with knowledge and wisdom which is stuff computers usually lack. To help out, MIT created a database for adding human commonsense into a database by getting humans to input sentences over the web that relate to another sentence. To help out, you can login to their website and share your commonsense knowledge and wisdom to put into their database. Who knows, maybe someday robots may actually have some smarts and you could be the one to give it to them! |
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EBS (Dec 01 2005 09:48 GMT) - Price: $199.70; Rating: 0 |
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- Price: $258.99; Rating: 4. |
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- Price: $285.00; Rating: 3. |
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- br’>www. aaa-calif. com/westways/1104/cooking. asp - 28k - Cached - Similar |
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- Alle Warnungen, auch am heutigen Welt-Aids-Tag, scheinen nicht viel zu nützen: In Deutschland stecken sich wieder mehr Menschen mit HIV an. "Die Krankheit muss man ernst nehmen", sagt Wolf Schön. Er muss es wissen: Schön lebt seit zehn Jahren mit HIV. |
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- Fast vier Jahre ist es her, dass der Kölner Müllskandal aufgedeckt wurde - und noch immer beschäftigt die Korruptionsaffäre die Justiz. Der Bundesgerichtshof in Leipzig überprüft ab heute mehrere Urteile des Kölner Landgerichts aus dem Jahr 2004. |
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- "Wie sind Sie versichert?" - Oft die erste Frage beim Arzt. Entscheidet die Antwort über die Wartezeit oder über die Qualität von Behandlung und Medikamenten? Über die Zwei-Klassen-Medizin diskutierte Frank Plasberg in "Hart aber fair" mit seinen Gästen. |
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- Eine Spar-Liste sorgt bei Ford in Köln für Wirbel. Viele Beschäftigte reagierten verärgert auf die von der Geschäftsleitung offenbar geplanten Einschnitte. Erst vor kurzem hatte Ford angekündigt, alleine in Deutschland 1.300 Stellen abbauen zu wollen. |
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- Der Stahlboom hat dem Essener ThyssenKrupp-Konzern im Geschäftsjahr 2005/2006 erneut ein Rekordergebnis beschert. Die Analysten-Prognosen wurden übertroffen. Doch beim Ausblick gibt's einen Dämpfer. |
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- Sarah Kuttner kam als Gast und Harald Schmidt war großzügig. Fast alle seine Witze verschenkte er an die MTV-Moderatorin für ihre eigene nächste Show. Aber ganz ohne einen Rückblick auf das Schneechaos im Münsterland ging es dann natürlich auch nicht. Harald Schmidt | 23 Uhr | Das Erste | bei wdr.de im Livestream |
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Mahlzeit! (Dec 01 2005 09:45 GMT) - Gammel-Fleisch. Igitt. Es ist in aller Munde, dieses fiese Wort. Dabei ist nur das Haltbarkeitsdatum abgelaufen. Man könnte auch "Etiketten-Schwindel" dazu sagen. |
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- "Deutschland braucht starke Gegner", so WDR2-Sportchefin Sabine Töpperwien vor der Gruppenauslosung in Leipzig. |
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- Der Wintereinbruch in NRW hat viele Menschen, vor allem die im Münsterland, die Kälte spüren lassen. Während sich dort die Lage schnell wieder normalisierte, droht in Pakistan vielen Menschen der Kältetod. wdr.de sprach mit Heribert Scharrenbroich von Care. |
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- Fliegen soll wieder sicherer werden - zumindest innerhalb Europas. Anfang 2006 soll es eine schwarze Liste mit unsicheren Airlines geben. Entscheidende Arbeit leistet dabei die Europäische Agentur für Flugsicherheit (EASA), die seit einem Jahr ihren Sitz in Köln hat. |
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- There's an interesting article on the side-effects of BPL (broadband over power lines) in Silicon Chip, which discusses the significant RF noise caused by it. After all, overhead power lines are not shielded at all, and hence are radiating a lot of noise between 1.6MHz and 80MHz. Apparently amateur radio operators, shortwave radio operators are up in arms about the noise, which makes many parts of the radio spectrum unusable for them. Not only that, but they have convincingly proved that a fully legal, licenced and operationally correct HF radio transmitter has the ability to stop BPL dead in its tracks. |
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- Web Hosting Manager Book Released (Web Host Industry Review)November 29, 2005 — Christoph Puetz, president of IT services provider Net Services USA and "Web Hosting Resource Kit" creator, announced on Tuesday he has released his new business guide book, The Web Hosting Manager. William Ryan Picks AT& |
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- Tracker description: Tech Support Tracking System |
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- Tracker description: Patch Tracking System |
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- Most recent daily statistics ( 1 Dec 2005): Ranking: 1846, Activity percentile: 98.74%, |
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- Most recent daily statistics ( 1 Dec 2005): Download count: 0 |
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- Public mailing lists: jacson-user, jacson-developer |
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- Project administrators: nestefan, pcs_org |
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- Project description: Provide a plugabble and configurable alternative to UNIX tools like grep, awk, tail, head, cut, sort, uniq or even some perl based scripts in a Java environment. A bit like what Apache Ant means to good old make. |
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- 25 days of seasonal drawings starts today. You're countdown in biro, it's advent but not necessarily as we know it... |
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- Exactly that. Lots of great old photos of dogs. Link pinched from the brilliant Happy Palace. |
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- The health-care system is unraveling. Last year nearly a million more people were uninsured than the year before. Every year for more than a decade, the percentage of employers offering health benefits has declined. The only reason the situation doesn’t look worse is that the government is picking up the slack—through Medicare and Medicaid and through the coverage provided to public employees. |
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- There are whispers echoing from underneath my bed. I can't understand what they are saying, but I sense it isn't a compliment. They often can also be heard behind my back totally indifferent to my presence. ?Forgiveness is enough? |
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- One does not have to live long to realize that along the pilgrim?s path are many battles to be fought and enemies to be overcome and we should not be surprised when new trials come our way. It does not matter how victorious we may have been in one battle, we cannot get too comfortable because there will be other combats with other giants. These other giants may not be as big and colossal as Goliath, but they must be dealt with just the same. Sometimes Goliath comes in the form of circumstances; |
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