Kid robots jogging
Friday, December 19, 2003
Newscasters seemed to be mocking Sony’s child-shaped walking robot that can now jog. Personally, I think it’s amazing that the robot can now actually jump and lift itself off the ground.
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I heart SXSW
The deadline for entering SXSW is upon us. I finally entered this year! It would be great to make it to the actual events in March, particularly the interactive sessions. I would love to see the keynotes by Zack Exley and Eli Pariser from MoveOn.org and Howard Rheingold. Are you going? Let me know.
Oswego
Tuesday, December 16, 2003
Heading up to Syracuse tonight, then driving with JH to conduct a usability test with students in Red Creek, NY. Interested to see their reactions to the interfaces.
Lost in
Saturday, December 13, 2003
Didn’t want to return to the real world after seeing Sofia Coppola’s Lost in Translation. Pursuing the dreamy movie mood, we walked out of the theater into a crisp winter night. Snow fell lightly as we crossed the street for appetizers and red wine at Simeon’s.
Emily in Hong Kong
Monday, December 08, 2003
Spotted in Hong Kong by EWC.
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Bots
Wednesday, December 03, 2003
“Sometimes you feel like you just want to pet them,” says one of the computer scientists who works at SRI International, speaking of the more than one hundred little red robots (called Centibots) that wander the company’s halls as part of a military project funded by DARPA, the Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. The Centibots are designed to conduct surveillance in hazardous areas, spot intruders, and so forth. One of the project’s leaders explains: “They autonomously decide
where to go. Nobody is controlling them… A commander could tell the SWAT team, ‘You are looking at this, and here is the guy we want and this is what he is wearing.’” The Centibots cost about $4,000 and are built from off-the-shelf components, including ordinary WiFi cards for communicating with each other and cheap PC cameras that send images humans can interpret.
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