Tuesday, March 18, 2014

Article: Cube robot demonstrates incredible balance

Cubli is a cube-shaped robot that can jump up, balance on a single corner and "walk" itself across a desk, all using off-the-shelf parts. Some robots do something useful, like ordnance disposal. Some robots do something artistic, like music. Some are more interactive. And some robots are just dan...

http://www.cnet.com.au/cube-robot-demonstrates-incredible-balance-339346873.htm?feed=rss

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Article: USB2Go Is A Smartphone-Powered Micro USB Dev Board For Building Android Connected Gadgets

Android developers wanting a quicker and easier way to hack around with hardware should point their eyes at this Kickstarter project – called USB2Go — which is aiming to repurpose the micro USB port of your smartphone as a portal for plugging in an ARM Cortex-M3 development board. The board would...

http://techcrunch.com/2014/03/17/usb2go/?ncid=rss

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Article: Three Data Driven Nuggets From Nate Silver's New News Site

Nate Silver, the famous New York Times statistics blogger who correctly forecasted 50 out of 50 states in the 2012 presidential election, has launched an entire news site dedicated to data journalism. Keeping the old blog name, 538, the relaunched site is dedicated to taking what Silver thinks is...

http://techcrunch.com/2014/03/17/three-data-driven-nuggets-from-nate-silvers-new-news-site/?ncid=rss

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Article: LittleBits Announces The Cloud Module, An Electronics Block That Connects Your Projects To The Internet

LitteBits, maker of simple, easy to build electronics kits, has announced what they’re calling the Cloud Module, a small, Internet-connected block that lets you build standalone projects using the kit’s Lego-style connection system. The kits themselves are marketed as toys and, in a large part, t...

http://techcrunch.com/2014/03/18/littlebits-announces-the-cloud-module-an-electronics-block-that-connects-your-projects-to-the-internet/?ncid=rss

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Article: Nikon's mirrorless snapper fires 60 shots a second

A good thing has happened in the world of cameras recently. The megapixel wars are all but dead. Instead, much of the focus in recent cameras has shifted to speed: Faster autofocus systems, and faster continuous-shooting speeds. The combination of those two things -- fast shot-to-shot times and t...

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2014-03/18/nikon-1-v3-mirrorless

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