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Video Friday: Humanoid Soccer

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CMU FIG ] CNN’s “Tech for Good” hears from Dr. Marko Bjelonic, from ETH Zürich’s Robotic Systems Lab and founder of the Swiss Mile robot, who believes automated machines are the key to automating our cities. Be the tiny DIY robot cat you’ve always wanted to be! Swiss-Mile ] Thanks, Marko! Swiss-Mile ] Thanks, Marko! at the link below.

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Energy Harvesting for Wearable Technology Steps Up

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Wearable devices, like nearly every other piece of tech, need energy. The best-known wearable energy-harvesting tech today is, of course, solar, which pulls down electrons from sunlight or ambient light. Leveraging watch tech for…bisons? Solar won’t work for nocturnal animals or creatures in low-light environments.

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Build a Passive Radar With Software-Defined Radio

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But it was the KrakenSDR’s ability to do passive radar that really caught my eye as a new capability in lowish-cost radio tech , so I plonked down the money. Normally, an amateur looking to do direction finding would have to wave around a directional antenna, something difficult to do while, for example, driving a car.

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MIT Battery Breakthrough Could Revolutionize Electric Cars : Gas 2.0

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Filling car batteries overnight, or any other time when no longer limited by our current mind locking, tech blocking, bullshit 120 vac, crap system, and fed by high volt D.C.Or other better transmission systems will be a lark! is a Green Options Media Production. is a Green Options Media Production.

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Happy IEEE Day!

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Test Your Future Tech Knowledge And Win Prizes. In our world full of fad diets and halfway completed DIY projects, grit — sustained passion and perseverance — seems to be wanting. Author Jacquelyn Adams offers some tips on promoting that rare trait in your work environment. Learn more.

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Lotus and Harmon partner up to add sound to hybrids

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The result is a quiet, controlled environment free of intrusive noises. Electronic systems determine the signal needed to provide cancellation which is then seamlessly generated through the in-car entertainment system.

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Automakers agree on common plug to recharge electric vehicles

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Skip to Content Massively explains Warhammer Online to the dedicated WoW player AOL Tech Europe ↓ Polska Deutschland Asia ↓ ???? ???? ??? ???? Nuclear waste is a problem much harder to solve than CO2, and dams have quite an impact in the environment. 7, 1990) Emissions from cars dwarfs that from power plants. :p