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IoT-ize Your Old Gadgets With a Mechanical Hijacking Device

Cars That Think

IoTIZER is a prototype of a mechanical hijacking device (MHD), designed to replace human manipulation of existing products. Or, that was the idea, anyway. As one user commented, "I think it is easy, because I can do it while looking at the product. Well, I can just put it there and check.".

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

Cars That Think

Personal computers in the late 1980s began incorporating CD-ROM drives, but initially these could read only from prerecorded disks and could not store user-generated data. Computer users badly needed a cheap, high-capacity, reliable, portable storage device. Flash memory became cheap and robust enough for consumer use by 1995.

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Just Calm Down About GPT-4 Already

Cars That Think

Brooks, who is now working on his third robotics startup, Robust.AI , has written hundreds of articles and half a dozen books and was featured in the motion picture Fast, Cheap & Out of Control. We see a person do something, and we know what else they can do, and we can make a judgement quickly. And we’re really good at that.

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Europe may slap retroactive tariffs on Chinese EVs

Baua Electric

Back in October 2023, Europe launched its formal investigation into the Chinese EV industry, as European companies are struggling to compete with the cheap, high-tech Chinese imports, made by low-cost labor, entering the European Union. Get started here. FTC: We use income earning auto affiliate links.

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Stuff We Use: What’s the Best Dash Cam?

The Truth About Cars

On our never-ending quest to improve this place by listening to feedback from the B&B, we are taking a new tack with these product posts, choosing instead to focus on items we use and may have purchased with our own meager income. We feel that’s cheap insurance against the dude in that brodozer who swears he didn’t run the light.

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What Robotics Experts Think of Tesla’s Optimus Robot

Cars That Think

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.

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Revolutionizing rider safety: The protective jacket every e-biker should consider

Baua Electric

Over the years I’ve been fortunate enough to learn how each type of vehicle comes with its own unique personality and enjoyment, but also its own risk profile. But could the perceived risk of different types of rides, such as e-motorcycles versus e-bikes, cloud our judgment on personal protection? I think it might, at least for me.