A small human-like robot flys around recording playing music, recording video and giving you messages. This is an exciting promo video to entice students to think about a career in Computer Science. I can’t wait for the personal robot to finally transition from science fiction to household appliance. In another article I’ll re-post here Bill Gates talks about robotics being the next great thing and about how robotics is in it’s infancy where PCs where 15 years ago. It’s very interesting, I’d love to see more videos like this.
Archive for March, 2007
Microsft Research | Personal, Flying, Video-Recording Robots
Monday, March 19th, 20072009: The Year of 3D
Wednesday, March 14th, 2007The next major wave in entertainment technology is only two years away from making a huge splash on audiences across the world. Dreamworks just announced that starting in 2009 it will release all of its features in 3-D.
Digg surpasses 1 Million Users in 2 years of operation.
Thursday, March 8th, 2007“It’s now been more than two years since the first story was submitted and dugg on Digg. Since then you guys have helped Digg move from a personal project amongst a group of friends to a huge online community. Now, your contributions in submitting, digging, and commenting on content have propelled Digg to a point I never dreamed of ”
The Social Media Concept is still in it’s infancy and already Digg has 1 million users. I expect to see it double in size again in the next 2 years even when faced with some new competitors, (unless Google joins the race, they could definitely take a large cut out of any social media site’s audience, even diggs)
Analytics on the Cheap: A Good Look at 6 Free Stats Packages for your site
Saturday, March 3rd, 2007You don’t have to pay a lot (or anything) to get good info about your website or blog’s traffic and visitors. This article compares 6 free traffic analytics packages and why you should (or shouldn’t) use them. I have used 4 of these and still like Google Analytics the best out of the free ones.
Control your computer by sight with eye-tracking hardware.
Saturday, March 3rd, 2007“A researcher at Stanford has created an alternative to the mouse that allows a person using a computer to click links, highlight text, and scroll simply by looking at the screen and tapping a key on the keyboard. By using standard eye-tracking hardware a doctoral student has developed a novel user interface that is easy to operate.”