When the designers from the Research and Engineering Center for Unmanned Vehicles (RECUV) wanted to showcase their Unmanned Aerial System software, they decided that using robotic home appliances to recreate the classic video game Pac-Man would be a cool way to do it… And I agree.
RECUV is a university, government, and industry partnership dedicated to [...]
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Pac-Man Comes to Life with Roombas
Science of the Movies Episode 7: “The World is Our Canvas”
Tonight “Science of the Movies” returns to Science Channel at 8pm. I visit the masterminds at Obscura Digital, who believes “the world is our canvas” and has the technology to prove it — from huge immersive video domes, interactive building surfaces, and multi-touch holograms! Watch my behind the scenes video above to see me play [...]
Nar Interviewed by the Amazing ThinkHero.com!
ThinkHero.com is one of my favorite websites for insightful, thorough reviews of genre movies and genre TV. Founder Dennis Tzeng and resident film/tv critic Roth Cornet do a really great job of staying on top of my favorite shows and putting out video reviews (I always check their site after Flash Forward, Fringe, and V [...]
The Prometheus Device
Everett Bradford has created a device that aspiring superheroes and supervillains alike will be drooling over: The Prometheus Device. Put simply, it allows you to cast fireballs from your hand. This is the kind of thing I expect Mickey Rourke to be sporting as Whiplash in Iron Man 2.
From Everett’s YouTube page:
Prometheus is version 3 of the Pyro [...]
Okay: Robots Are Getting Pretty Good at Balancing
The robot in the video above is skiing. Skiing.
Developed by Bojan Nemec at the Jožef Stefan Institute in Slovenia, this future gold medalist navigates autonomously using a video camera and sensors to “see”, a GPS sensor to help determine velocity and distance from an obstacle, and an electronic gyroscope that sends information on the movement [...]
Emotional Robot Pillow Wants Cuddle Time
Designer Stefan Ulrich’s robot pillow is called Funktionide and it is the latest example of “emotional robotics”, in which designers seek to create an emotional relationship between human and robot.
The “Funktionide” is an autarkic amorph object whose intention is to provide the user with a atmosphere of presence thus counteracting the feeling of loneliness.
Makes sense to [...]
