- Students build self-balancing TIPI robot, plan new world order (video)
Remember this guy, the QB robot that was priced at a whopping $15 grand? Seemingly, the webcam wheeler inspired a team of young minds at the University of Waterloo, who’ve unleashed the DIY in themselves to build one of their own. TIPI, or Telepresence Interface by Pendulum Inversion, was designed to give humans the feeling that they’re not actually talking to a six-foot tall cyclops cyborg with an LCD face and webcam eye, but rather, evoke the emotions drawn when speaking the old, conventional, face-to-face way. Thanks to this team of mechatronics engineers, the low-cost TIPI uses an accelerometer, gyro and pendulum to balance on its own and can remotely controlled remotely while communicating via its Beagle Board and Polulu Orangutan SVP brain. Head past the break to see the robot struttin’ its stuff — oh, and get ready to rave. You’ll see what we mean.
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- Lenovo gets serious with cubicle-approved ThinkStation E30 and ThinkCentre M81 desktops
They’re a far cry from being beautiful, but they’re also tremendously more powerful than that joke-of-a-machine you’re using now. In an effort to help those who live and breathe within Excel experience a life filled with fewer frustrations, Lenovo is cranking out a pair of new desktops for the working world. Both the ThinkStation E30 and ThinkCentre M81 can be outfitted with Intel’s Sandy Bridge CPUs, and the E30 can be equipped with an 80GB or 160GB SSD, NVIDIA’s Quadro / NVS graphics, up to 16GB of memory, USB 3.0 and a SATA III interface. The M81 steps down a bit with integrated Intel graphics (or a discrete ATI option), but both rigs are optimized for fast start up and shut down time under Lenovo’s Enhanced Experience (EE) 2.0 for Windows 7 program. The bad news? $629 and $599 starting points in order of mention, and you’ll have to wait until late April / early May to get your grubby paws around one. Full release is after the break, per usual.
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- Shocker! Sprint officially opposes AT&T’s proposed acquisition of T-Mobile
Yes, you read that right. Sprint is actually going out on a limb and officially opposing AT&T’s proposed acquisition of T-Mobile USA. Apparently, it thinks that the transaction would “reduce competition and harm consumers” if it’s allowed to go through, and it’s vowing to “fight this attempt by AT&T to undo the progress of the past 25 years and create a new Ma Bell duopoly.” It further goes on to note that the combined company would be almost three times the size of Sprint in terms of wireless revenue, and that it and Verizon would “overwhelmingly dominate” the US wireless industry and have “unprecedented control” over the post-paid market. Full press release is after the break.Continue reading Shocker! Sprint officially opposes AT&T’s proposed acquisition of T-Mobile
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