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IoT-ize Your Old Gadgets With a Mechanical Hijacking Device

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Or, that was the idea, anyway. KAIST/Korea Polytechnic University The paper doesn't directly address the cost of the MHD, and with three motors and some other electronics in it, it's not likely to be super cheap. It's also possible to build your own MHD device for cheap , if you know what you're doing.

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

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In 2000, at a trade fair in Germany, an obscure Singapore company called Trek 2000 unveiled a solid-state memory chip encased in plastic and attached to a Universal Serial Bus (USB) connector. Computer users badly needed a cheap, high-capacity, reliable, portable storage device. MB of data. The thumb drive was all that—and more.

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Heating Buildings With Solar Energy Stored in Sand

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As we try to objectively study nature, we are often reminded of how natural forces affect us personally. When we turn up the heat in our homes and workplaces, we must balance our personal need for warmth with the global impact of burning fossil fuels like oil, gas, coal, and biomass. There is nothing special here!”

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Necrobotics: Dead Spiders Reincarnated as Robot Grippers

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Astonishingly mobile, amazingly efficient, super robust, and in some cases, literally dirt cheap. Bugs have long taunted roboticists with how utterly incredible they are. But making a robot that's insect equivalent is extremely hard—so hard that it’s frequently easier to just hijack living insects themselves and put them to work for us.

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What Robotics Experts Think of Tesla’s Optimus Robot

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After a year of speculation based on little more than a person in a robot suit combined with some optimistic assertions made by Tesla CEO Elon Musk , many roboticists tuned in to the event livestream (or attended in person) to see what Tesla’s approach to humanoid robotics would turn out to be. BACK TO TOP ↑ ]. Animesh Garg.

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Inventing Postscript, the Tech That Took the Pain out of Printing

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Back then, Warnock already had a rough idea how to “Print Anything.” It would have been quite different had Warnock and company not been in the right place at the right time to meet the right person. from the University of Utah , joined the center in 1978, he immediately began work on a new printer protocol. San Jose, Calif.,

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Move Over, Tractor—the Farmer Wants a Crop-Spraying Drone

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Arthur Erickson Occupation: Aerospace engineer and founder, Hylio Location: Houston Education: Bachelor’s degree in aerospace, specializing in aeronautics, from the University of Texas at Austin Erickson founded Hylio with classmates while they were attending the University of Texas at Austin.