Citizen, the Japanese watch company, has unveiled several microbot kits. The idea is to get kids interested in the field of robotics. One tiny robot is solar powered and the other robot is guided by an infrared beam. No word on prices or a release date yet.

May they sure do keep getting smaller and smaller every single month don’t they? Although we can’t complain because that only means we can build even more into the same amount of space or even less space. That just gives rise to our creativity so we can add in those extra features that we wanted but couldn’t before because of space limitations. But lets not get into the effect it would have on performance/speed….

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Get ready boys, because 3D is becoming a reality! More advancements have been made to 3D display technology and now there have been several working models out. Its only a matter of time until this design is perfected and made available to the public. Soon there will be plenty of three dimensional screens that will be used for everyday activities. It will probably be first used by advertising agencies in order to have more flashy ways of getting your attention but soon that will lead to consumer based uses. So now its only a waiting game until it does go out on sale at your local neighborhood Best Buy.

While the US excels at robots to explore the outer reaches of space, the Anie development team here has a closer goal in mind - exploring the dark, forbidding spaces under the floor of your house. Anie is designed “to bravely go where no man in his right mind wants to go.”

The Anie robot, and it’s close robotic cousins also designed by the team at Topy, explores building crawl spaces, cavities, and even narrow pipes and ducting so that you don’t have to.

Anie is intended for the relatively benign environment encountered under most structures, though TOPY also makes ‘rescue robots’ used for natural, and man made, disaster recovery.

This remarkable new type of speaker is just about one of the top new inventions that will be coming out! Countrary to how regular speakers send out sound isotropically (uniformity in all directions) this new utilization of hypersonic sound focuses the sound waves’ frequencies to give a more localized sound propogation. Just watch the vid and all will be made clear

Even dismiss the fact that robots weren’t able to rebel and take over because they can’t think for themselves? Well, think again.

Adam, a scientist program consisting of a small roomful of lab equipment along with four personal computers that act as its brain,
has shown that he is capable of making his very own discoveries! Using his robot arms, cameras, liquid handlers, incubators and other equipment, he was able to use yeast samples he was given to discover new functions of its genes.

The robot is the handiwork of researchers at Aberystwyth University and the University of Cambridge in the UK. And the team is now working on a new robot, called Eve, which will search for new drugs. Adam, Eve and their offspring could soon automate routine and time-consuming scientific chores, leaving human scientists free to make higher level, creative leaps.

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Imagine a world where you can unfold an electronic map and interact with it and find detailed 3D directions similar to that of google maps. Inkjet is now being researched as a cheap and practical way of creating light sensors and displays! The rate at which technology is advancing is astounding. It appears that we are heading into a newer electronics era.