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Researchers Make a Robotic Arm Without a Hand

The so-called “passive universal gripper” invented by a team of researchers from Cornell University and the University of Chicago has become the star of its own video.Rather than trying to recreate the human hand and the power of the opposable thumb, it relies on a technique so arguably basic that it leav...

16 February 2012
08:50 GMT

FreeDOS Resurrected, Version 1.1 Released

FreeDOS, a free DOS-compatible operating system for IBM-PC, is now at version 1.1 and has a new maintainer. FreeDOS was declared dead five years ago, but it seems that it has been resurrected. Bernd Blaauw, the present developer, has updated the operating system to version 1.1.FreeDOS 1.1 is best suited to use from C...

4 January 2012
02:33 GMT

Organize Your Ideas with Ease

Notecards are useful tools that will allow novelists to write down and organize their ideas with ease. SuperNotecard helps writers manage their notecards and create their stories' narrative lines .Notecards can be used by novelists to organize their ideas and visualize their mistakes a lot easier.SuperNotecard ...

28 May 2011
05:01 GMT

Halo Developer Praises Relationship with Activision

Bungie, the developer of the critically acclaimed Halo franchise, is quite happy with its recent 10-year contract with Activision, saying that the large publisher, despite its imposing reputation, is very hands-off in the whole affair. Bungie had splintered from Microsoft a few years ago, after creating for it the...

29 March 2011
15:51 GMT

Create Your Own Interactive Presentations

Making interesting presentations is never easy. Although you have spent a lot of time preparing your material, you are always afraid that your audience will get bored, or that your explanations are not clear enough and everything will be ruined. Of course many of these fears are without merit but what ...

13 July 2010
13:08 GMT

Keep Track of Tasks for Any Project

We live in a society that can give you all except one thing, time. This is the most valuable resource nowadays and it can be a problem if you are not careful how you manage it. Things are even worse when you work in a business, and have to report how much time you spend on a specific project.In order to solve t...

6 June 2010
14:41 GMT

Steve Jobs: Tablet Project Is ‘The Most Important Thing I’ve Ever Done’

As if the huge anticipation of Wednesday’s event wasn’t enough, eyewitnesses including Apple execs and Jobs' friends are said to have heard Apple’s CEO state that the tablet project was “the most important thing I’ve ever done.”TechCrunch reports that, although this is not &ld...

25 January 2010
02:54 GMT

Michael Jackson Will Be Featured in a New Video Game

As you all know, a few weeks ago, the world lost one of its most iconic superstars, the legendary King of Pop, Michael Jackson. Since then, we've been flooded with information about the famous singer, in regard to how he impacted the whole world through his actions. We've even seen famous gaming company Se...

15 July 2009
02:40 GMT

iPhone Object-Based Media Player Prototyped

Touch is a research project that investigates Near Field Communication (NFC), a technology that enables connections between mobile phones and physical things. The folks behind this exciting project have come up with a prototype of an iPhone media player that uses physical objects to control media playback. The RFID-b...

16 April 2009
10:16 GMT

Will Wright Hypes Up His Next Game

The gaming industry has been host to quite a lot of innovators along the years, but one of them really stood out when it came to giving players the power of a god upon all creatures - Will Wright. The mind behind massive hits such as The Sims or Spore, he employed gameplay mechanics and features unheard of in previou...

16 December 2008
13:01 GMT

Calculate Your Fees Using Different Rate Categories

Even though during the holiday season all the extra time is meant to be spent with friends and family, not everyone can afford to take a vacation. This is the case especially if you have your own business and, naturally, you need to keep it on the line. Still, special times require special means, so, if you must work...

10 December 2008
05:31 GMT

Deadline for Google's Project 10100 Passed

As some of you may know, Google turned 10 last month. Besides the regular celebration of the event, the people at Google admitted that, in spite of being a top answer-provider, they do not have all the answers, and thought they might also help the world help itself with this occasion. Therefore, they came up with a p...

22 October 2008
03:13 GMT

Bungie Is Open to New Partners

Bungie Studios remain in the minds of gamers worldwide as the developers of the hit futuristic shooter Halo. They gained fame through this franchise and have brought an unrivaled success to the Xbox and Xbox 360 consoles. Formerly part of the Microsoft Game Studios development team, the Bungie staff decided to become...

22 October 2008
02:50 GMT

EU Is the Next Hesitant Competitor for the Space Race

Although the space ambitions of the EU members are quite high, granting them the necessary funds still comes as a problem, since many of the EU states decided having more important issues to spend their money on.There is growing concern related to the fact that many of the EU member states still prove to be quite rel...

29 September 2008
03:47 GMT

Games Go to Libraries

People might think that gamers spend all their free time playing games, but librarians say that's not the truth: just as grandmas and aunties become gamers and get totally hooked on the Wii (hey, at least it's a start!), hardcore gamers are beginning to show up in some nontraditional places, such as public ...

1 July 2008
17:06 GMT

Sega Gets Unreal Again

We're always glad when we hear that a new company licenses the Unreal Engine 3 (and we're sure that Epic feels the same) because, in our case, it means that new quality titles might emerge. Not to mention the fact that, by licensing the engine, a developer admits that it is working on a new project - even t...

28 May 2008
15:06 GMT

The Dream Comes True: Students Start the Day Playing Games

If moving to Dundee, Scotland, was not on your priority list, things could change starting now. If you are a gamer, that is. And still in school. Because a really interesting project started by Learning and Teaching Scotland took place for 10 weeks and proved that video games are far from being a mindless waste of ti...

14 March 2008
04:59 GMT

NASA to Create a MMO Game?

It's no secret that the virtual world is slowly taking over the real life (I should say "unfortunately" here, right?). And since the folks from NASA probably know that way better than everybody else, they are considering now to create a MMO game to appeal to the next generation of game-addicted scientists and e...

21 January 2008
03:49 GMT

…And Came Wikia Search to Let Me Down

It's going to be a competitor to Google, they said. It's going to have human element, they said. It will not be as great when it will be released, but it is open source and it will have enormous possibilities to grow, they said. Well, at least they got part of the last one right. It's not in the same z...

7 January 2008
19:51 GMT

Wikia Search Project en Route

Jimmy Whales, the Wikipedia founder, is shooting for the stars with the latest project that he has announced and he hopes to eventually challenge Google and other established players with the Wikia Search project, an open source search project (but I do believe that the name gave that away and I did not need to speci...

28 December 2007
06:56 GMT

Flammable Ego: Philips Lights Up Your Inner Self

This ain't such an unexpected maneuver as Philips mentioned about the SKIN Probe Project months ago. The concept is based on the idea that it "examines the future integration of sensitive materials in the area of emotional sensing - the shift from ' intelligent' to 'sensitive' products and t...

19 December 2007
12:56 GMT

YouTube's Winners Announced

It is a touching story about "shenanigans" and about why everything is so important in life. It's the rendition of "Ghost", but with parenting love at its core. It's the winning video of YouTube's Project Direct.While feeling for those who did not win, I must congratulate those who found their work re...

6 December 2007
03:57 GMT

Super Mario Sisters - Dead Nintendo Project

We all know that big companies love trademarks, specially when they come up with something as original as Nintendo's Super Mario Bros. What would you say if I told you that a game called "Super Mario Sisters" was considered as a possibility almost 20 years ago? It seems that Nintendo filed a trademark applicati...

22 November 2007
09:36 GMT

Lord of the Search: Fellowship of the Google

Google has been participating in many initiatives and getting involved in many deals through the years, some of them related to issues that were most pressing to the Mountain View based company: the development and contribution to open source software projects. Starting in 2005, every summer brought a new "Summer of ...

13 November 2007
03:47 GMT

WabiSabi Labi to Release Security Tool

They're going out of their way to help the cyber community and all I can say is "way to go!". WS Labi has decided that what they're already doing is not enough and that they want to help even more. Some people will call you a nitwit if you don't know who these guys are, but since not everyone is keen o...

27 September 2007
15:16 GMT

NASA = Big Brother?

It seems that working at NASA is not all it's crancked up to be. Although most people are ecstatic when hearing the words "rocket scientist," for these guys there seems to be no break. Three dozen NASA workers at JPL wrote letters to their congressman in recent months, protesting against the new security checks...

7 June 2007
03:03 GMT

Project Gotham Racing 2 Cheats and Hints (Xbox)

Project Gotham Racing 2 is the ultimate test of racing skill, style, and daring that rewards you not only for how fast you drive, but also for how you drive fast. Earn Kudos and gain recognition for cornering on two wheels around the Sears Tower in Chicago; power sliding through the ancient streets of Florence, Italy...

30 March 2007
02:46 GMT

Project Gotham Racing Cheats and Unlockables (Xbox)

Project Gotham Racing (PGR) is a racing game, first in its series, developed by Bizarre Creations and published by Microsoft for the Xbox gaming console. The first title in the franchise, Project Gotham Racing, is an Xbox launch title that quickly became the second best-selling game for the console after Halo.PGR is ...

29 March 2007
06:12 GMT

Whadda F***: Jelly Speakers?

There are things that make sense and things that don't, as there are things that make sense but suck and things that actually don't make any sense nor are they good for anything. Experimenting is one thing - people are supposed to experiment in technology and extend their knowledge. Now, I've noticed t...

28 March 2007
03:41 GMT


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