The Looxcie cam shoots up to 480p VGA quality video, and is worn like a Bluetooth headset. The company has just announced plans to support lifecasting, where a user can broadcast a live video stream from their smartphone.
PixelOptics have developed glasses that can change their optical properties at the touch of a button. They even have a tiny accelerometer inside so they can switch automatically between reading and distance settings.
iRobot has shrunk the Scooba to about half the original size. How does it work, and how did iRobot pull it off?
Most 3-D TVs and movie theaters rely on stereoscopic images to trick your visual system. But a couple of clever devices at CES provided non-stereoscopic 3-D alternatives.
This is part 2/3 of the keynote presentation by Sebastian Thrun and Chris Urmson on self-driving cars at IROS 2011.
University of Tsukuba AI Lab researchers are using a wireless headband that detects smiles and frowns to coach robots how to do tasks.
Intel’s Mark Bohr describes why the company switched from traditional planar transistors to 3D devices at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco.
Liquid Robotics launches four Wave Glider Robots on an unmanned journey across the Pacific Ocean.
As a replacement for today’s DRAM and flash memory, ferroelectric materials have many desirable characteristics. But to get a better sense of how ferroelectric bits behave on the nanoscale, Xiaoqing Pan of the University of Michigan and his colleagues used a high-resolution transmission electron microscope to watch the switching process in action. They’ve found the switching starts in an unexpected place and can be started with less power than anticipated. IEEE Spectrum Associate Editor Rachel Courtland speaks with Pan about the new results and the team’s footage of the switching process.
A heads up display for ski goggles lets you read incoming texts while tracking speed and distance.
In this edition of The Full Spectrum, we interview Kevin Karsch, a computer science PhD student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He and his collaborators have developed a method for inserting synthetic objects into photographs without having access to the original location. By marking the rough physical geometry of the scene and the location of light sources within it, users can quickly add digital objects that behave as if they were in the original photo.
Discovery Bay games gives you a joystick and 4 buttons to play Atari games on your iPad.
An iPhone controlled helicopter that can shoot missiles.
Jeff Han of Perceptive Pixel talks about why they’ve switched to Gorilla Glass for their 84-inch touch screen, and why there are so many different multitouch booths at CES this year.
The Ecovacs Deebot D76, introduced at CES 2012, has a docking station capable of emptying the robot’s dust bin automatically.
Samsung’s NaviBot-S robot vacuum, shown at CES 2012, is capable of emptying its dust bin automatically.
Spectrum Senior Editor Tekla Perry tests Tobii’s eye-tracking technology at CES 2012.
I caught up with Dean Kamen at CES 2012. Kamen, inventor of the first wearable infusion pump, the Segway and founder of the FIRST family of robotic competitions, gives a shout out to the sponsors of FIRST and tells me why he’s passionate about supporting the next generation of innovators. Says Kamen, “this world we live in of exciting growth of science, technology, and electronics doesn’t happen for free; we all have to be committed in making sure the next generation of kids has a passion for innovation.”
John Kappenman breaks down what was ultimately a rather ordinary event.
It blacked out all of Quebec, but a larger storm could have more catastrophic effects.