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Bakerbot, thus the name for the robot, is the development of household robots PR2 robots are made ​​by a company Willow Garage. Previously, PR2 which has two arms of skill performance has been working on a variety of chores, ranging from folding laundry to prepare beverages.

New capabilities that make the Bakerbot PR2, a breakthrough that triggered the Distributed Robotics Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). An MIT student named Mario Bollini, add special programming code that allows the robot to make decisions for themselves and accomplish a particular task.

Quoted from MSNBC on Monday (08/08/2011), Bakerbot has a better ability than the same types of robots before. He also represents a hybrid approach to achieve the goal of developing this robot. For example, Bakerbot can determine there are four bowl of ingredients to make cakes on the table and sets it apart from the mixer and pan cakes.

"Bakerbot can calculate, for example, how to take the bowl of cake ingredients and pour into the mixer, stir it, put it on a baking sheet and then burn it in the oven," explained Bollini.

The result is a baked cake. Recognized Bollini, cakes made Bakerbot not the prettiest cake in the world, but at least the robot is able to produce an appropriate cookie recipe bake and good to eat. Well, are interested in asking for help Bakerbot?

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New research suggests a smartphone can make quick eye damage. The study showed people who read a text message or internet browsing on smartphones tend to hold this powerful tool much closer than when reading books or newspapers, forcing the eye to work harder than usual.

According to research published in Optometry and Vision Science July issue of this, visibility is close coupled with a small font size on your smartphone, it could increase the burden on people who already wear glasses or lenses box.

"The fact a person who holds your smartphone at close range means that the eye has to work much harder to focus.'s Eyes must work harder to create symptoms such as headaches and eye strain," explained Dr. Mark Rosenfield, a professor at SUNY State College of Optometry in New York City, as reported by HealthDay, Monday (07/25/2011).

Dr. Rosenfield also said the SMS and web browsing on a smartphone can make dry eyes, discomfort and blurred vision after prolonged use. Previous studies also found that up to 90 percent of people who use computers have eye problems.

Dr. Rosenfield get an idea of ​​this research because often see people on the train that uses the smartphone is very close to their eyes. Given the growing number of adults and children who use smartphones to write and receive messages or search for restaurant reviews, it makes sense to measure exactly how close the people holding their phones.

This study is relatively simple. In the early stages, about 130 volunteers with an average age of 23.2 years were asked to hold the smartphone while reading text messages. In different experiments, 100 participants with an average age of 24.9 years, who were then asked to hold their smartphones when reading a web page. Researchers then measured the distance between the device and the eye as well as the size of letters used.

"When I read the text printed in newspapers, books and magazines, working distance of an average of nearly 16 inches (40 cm) from the eye, but the study volunteers who send text messages with a smartphone on average only about 14 inches (35.5 cm). In some people even as close as 7 inches (18 cm), "explained Dr. Rosenfield.

Meanwhile, when viewing a web page, the average working distance was 12.6 inches (32 cm).

"Font (letter) on the text messages tend to be slightly larger, averaging about 10 percent of the newspaper to print letters, but letters web page just 80 percent the size of newspaper print and in some cases even as small as 30 percent," said Rosenfield.

"But there are simple ways to addict smartphones to minimize eye strain, ie by increasing or enlarging the font size on your device," advises Dr.. Scott MacRae, associate professor of ophthalmology and visual sciences who is also an eye surgeon at the University of Rochester Medical Center.

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Angry Birds more rampant. Next, the game from Finland will be present at the television set.

This was done through cooperation between the Rovio, Angry Birds maker, with the Roku. latter Name is the maker of the device set-top box for television.

As quoted from Engadget, Thursday (06/02/2011), Roku plans to bring several new devices for Internet access via television. One new feature that will be present is the ability to play casual games.

Popularity Angry Birds make Roku took Rovio to bring these games on the television screen. Of course, Roku hope this step will invite others to join games support their platform.

In the United States, Roku is known as a provider of device that can be used to access the online video rental service Netflix.

"Just like when we were the first to bring Netflix on TV, we want to be the catalyst that changed the way people play casual games - from the Angry Birds - the biggest screen they have at home," said Anthony Wood, Roku CEO .

On the other hand, Roku had to compete with consoles like Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and Nintendo Wii are already present a variety of casual games to be played on TV.

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Batman: Arkham City is the sequel to the popular game Batman: Arkham Asylum. As witnessed in a video at GameSpot, Thursday (02/06/2011), one character is Catwoman.

The 'cat woman' would be one of the playable characters. She will be equipped with unique weapons like whips, claws and a kind of sling (weapon consisting of rock and rope).

The action was enough to 'bite' like sliding under obstacles such as under the truck, jumping acrobatics, using his whip like a grappling hook and of course beat the criminals.

"We designed Catwoman as an integral part of Arkham City, she has combat systems, navigation equipment and its own way," said Dax Ginn, Marketing Manager of Rocksteady.

Catwoman also will have the ability to continue growing as a player to upgrade the character of Batman. For example, Ginn pointed out, the armor will go up if Catwoman Batman armor raised.

Catwoman moves seemed dominated acrobatic movements and kicks-kicks. She could even squeeze the opponent with the foot.

While the navigation system will be different with Batman Catwoman can use her robe to float above the city. Catwoman will climb and swing from building to building.

Games Batman: Arkham City planned to be present in October 2011. Game developed by Rocksteady will be published by Warner Bros.

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A company designing processors that can help improve the performance of the smart phone or tablet. For smartphone, this processor can have 64 cores.

The processor was named Epiphany, designed by a company called Adapteva. The design allows the application of up to 64 cores on the phone.

Epiphany chip will not function replaces the 'brains' main phone today as its chip A5 Apple, Qualcomm's Snapdragon his or Nvidia Tegra 2.

As quoted from Computerworld on Thursday (05/05/2011), this chip to function as accelerators for specific functions.

Andreas Olofsson, CEO Adapteva, said the Epiphany has the ability of the flexible accelerator. Unlike other accelerator chip that is only specific to certain functions only.

He hopes the Epiphany could be used as a companion of the main processor technologies that exist today. Companies smart phone, tablet or supercomputer is expected to want to license this architecture.

In addition to mobile phones or tablet, Epiphany can also be applied to the device heavyweights such as servers. For servers, this chip can have up to 4,000 cores.

Epiphany is designed based on the specifications of reduced instruction set computing (RISC). Power consumption also claimed very low, 16-core 1GHz processor called the electricity need only 1 watt.

Olofsson asserted Epiphany alone can not be used as a 'brain' device, for example, to run the operating system based on Linux or Windows. This is because the chip does not have great memory management capabilities, such as in the x86 chips.

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A study in Japan trying to develop technology that could send kisses through the internet. Including lip and tongue movements.

This was done through research developed tactile communications Kajimoto Laboratory at the University of Electro-Communications, Japan.

Reporting from DigInfo, Tuesday (05/03/2011), the study is trying to transmit sensations of taste and kiss 'distance'.

How it works is simple, on one side of a device will record movements of the tongue and lips while kissing someone. Movement was recorded by software that can then be sent to another device for re-cooked.

Currently, research is merely the movement of the tongue. Later, another factor of a kiss will also be recorded and can be sent.

"Elements of a kiss among them is the sensation of the senses of taste, the flow of the breath until the moisture level of the tongue," said the researchers who developed this prototype.

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Genius introduces its new device from the line fashionable BlueEye family of wireless mouse, ie, the Navigator 905 Vouge. Mouse This stylish unique look due to attached to the notebook user.

Vouge 905 Navigator is designed for young executives who put their appearance on the table.

In a statement on Thursday (28/4/20111), Genius says that the diamond design pattern on the surface of this unit makes a difference compared to most other mouse. Auto connection and frequency hopping technology was presented to prevent interference.

BlueEye 1200dpi tracking technology is claimed to use the advanced optical engine that works on almost any surface and has a much better performance than regular optical mouse.

Well, a unique feature that can attach the mouse to the notebook called Stick-N-Go. With this capability the device at USD 27.9 are expected to avoid a fall.

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