I want one, and I’d call him HAL. I’d also program him to say: I’m sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that. Enter EmoSpark, the world’s first home artificial intelligence console that uses emotion text and content analysis to measure the emotional responses of its users. In fact, it actually detects the moods of […]
Check out these incredible flying robotic machines by Festo (above and below,) a company we often featured on GAS for their incredible robots! Slow-Mo films by the people from Earth Unplugged. [Earth Unplugged | Via LS]
Most military technology needs to be extremely robust to stand up to extreme temperatures, dust and the risk of impact. But the US military is now funding an IBM project to make electronic gadgets that can be utterly destroyed. IBM has won a contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the closest thing the […]
The company behind the MakerBot 3D printer has launched a model that can handle multiple colors and materials in one print run. Stratasys’s new machine costs $330,000 and is very much aimed at making practical objects rather than novelty items. Where normal 3D printers use a single stream of material, Objet500 Connex3 uses jets that […]
A joint French and British project has achieved broadband speeds of 1.4 terabytes per second over a 255 mile distance, which the companies are claiming as a record. The speeds are apparently the result of an “alien super channel.” The project is the work of French firm Alcatel-Lucent and British Telecom. They carried out the […]
The best battery for your gadgets? It’s the rechargeable kind, of course, but for traditional batteries, the regular Duracell batteries are your best bet (run time vs. cost) according to this video. [HouseholdHacker]
Unfortunately, the video only shows what seem to be a small-scale model of the vehicle, but we should get more footage of the real thing in the next few months. You can read more about the Black Knight Transformer over at Popsci. Advanced Tactics Inc., a small aerospace company, released details about its AT Transformer […]
Google has paid $3.2 billion to buy a company that makes high-tech smoke alarms and thermostats. The purchase of Nest suggests Google wants to have more involvement in non-traditional Internet-connected devices. Nest launched in 2011 with a Wi-Fi controlled thermostat system. Although you can program it or manually alter it in the same way as […]
World Wrestling Entertainment is to launch a combined online streaming channel and video-on-demand service. From a tech rather than takedown perspective it’s an interesting twist on existing online services, made possible by the company’s unusual business model. The WWE Network, which will cost $9.99 a month (with a minimum six-month commitment), will be available as […]
Gamer Guys and Gals, please be aware: 4chan’s /b/ forum — the same one that convinced lots of people to dunk their phones in water — has now promised new Xbox One users a way to “hack” their new gaming units so they will be backwards compatible. INSTEAD, IT BRICKS THE CONSOLE, RENDERING IT INOPERABLE. […]