The Trouble with Drones

The Trouble with Drones

The trouble with drones is proliferation and sovereignty.  Take this story for example where the Pakistan's minister of Information and Broadcasting urges the United States to "transfer drone…
Insidious Imperialism! Creeping Colonization!

Insidious Imperialism! Creeping Colonization!

A meeting of the San Diego Software Industry Council. The subject: What will Web 3.0 look like? “Why don’t we know?” asked one venture capitalist. “Are we idiots?” The VC was pandering to an in-group…
Drones, Drones, and More Drones!

Drones, Drones, and More Drones!

The use of pilotless drones are up 94% in 2008.  The flight hours graph is particularly enlightening; 400,000 hours logged for all of 2008 between the military services. I wonder what the…
Supercomputing once for one, now for all

Supercomputing once for one, now for all

The article, "Supercomputing for the Masses," caught my eye. The key quote of the article, "Seven of the world’s top 10 supercomputers use standard chips from A.M.D. and Intel, as do about 90 percent…
Robot Airplane on Mars!!!

Robot Airplane on Mars!!!

Since budget cuts and the inability to overcome problems like boredom and high radiation doses have ruled out any manned mission to Mars in the foreseeable future, NASA has shifted gears back…
Robotic Arm Opens Doors For the Wheelchair Bound

Robotic Arm Opens Doors For the Wheelchair Bound

For people confined to wheelchairs, the proliferation of ramps has greatly enhanced their mobility. Unfortunately, opening doors remains an omnipresent, and frustrating, challenge. Oddly enough,…
A New Technology of Controling Robots!!!

A New Technology of Controling Robots!!!

Adding a new wrinkle to the 'droid versus iPhone debate, a project at Keio University in Tokyo have created iPhone software specifically designed to control androids. More specifically, they…