Primo Is An Arduino Robot That Teaches Kids Programming Logic Through Play
Dan Shapiro’s Robot Turtles board game Kickstarter showed there is serious appetite for kids’ games that aren’t just fun to play with but also sneakily teach core coding principles. Instead of the $25,000 he was aiming for, Shapiro raised more than $630,000. Geeky moms and dads clearly have money, and With that…
Denmark targets iPhone generation to keep edge in hearing aids
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – Tiny Denmark, with fewer than 6 million people, supplies half the world’s hearing aids, and local makers aim to advance that commanding position as baby boomers and the iPhone generation age. GN Store Nord, headquartered in Ballerup, near Copenhagen, has a product it hopes will reach that demographic…
Southwest Airlines now allows gadget use during takeoff and touchdown, offers …
Soon, Delta and JetBlue will have the right to say they’ve adopted the FAA’s new electronics policy before it was cool. Still, not everyone’s just following suit — the latest carrier to allow passengers to use mobile devices during takeoff and landing, Southwest, says it’s adding something extra. According to…
Game plan: Kick back, watch TiVo (and other earnings!)
"We’re hearing talk of a bottoming in personal computer sales. We know that Hewlett-Packard has done a ground-breaking deal with Salesforce.com to extend its cloud reach and loop in its extremely valuable printer franchise. We know the company boosted its dividend recently and continues to take costs out. All of…
Twitter Enables Perfect Forward Secrecy Across Sites To Protect User Data …
Twitter has enabled Perfect Forward Secrecy across its mobile site, website and API feeds in order to protect against future cracking of the service’s encryption. The PFS method ensures that, if the encryption key Twitter uses is cracked in the future, all of the past data transported through the network…
Will BlackBerry Survive? Should It?
We live in a "What have you done for me lately?" world. And nowhere is that more apparent than in the brutally competitive high-tech industry, where companies spend years and megabucks developing groundbreaking products and powerful brands, only to see everything they’ve worked so hard to build evaporate in a…
Foursquare for BlackBerry 10 Updated
Foursquare put out a nice update to their Foursquare app this week. We now have a new settings screen along with new explore filters. They also find addresses without a network connection. On top of that we get the regular bug fixes and some performance enhancements. Download Foursquare for BlackBerry…
There Are Now More Than 2011 North American Planes Outfitted With WiFi
Everything is amazing and only Gogo’s investors are happy. A human using Internet though probably not Gogo’s WiFi on a plane (Reuters). It used to be that a traveler could escape the reaches of the Internet by flying 30,000 feet into the air in a metal tube outfitted with jet But…
IROS 2013: Robot Cars Get Hyper-Maneuverable With Actuated Tails
That 2012 paper from UC Berkeley on the advantages of giving mobile robots tails continues to inspire roboticists, nearly two years later. At IROS 2013, we checked out a new implementation of an actuated tail that makes for one seriously maneuverable robot car. The robot is called Dima (a name derived from…
To Grow, Twitter Looks Outside Its Own Walls
SAN FRANCISCO For Twitter to justify the high valuation of its stock, the micro-messaging company must spread the gospel of tweeting far beyond its current active user base of 232 million accounts. To do that, Twitter is counting on millions of websites to link to the service and encouraging legions of…
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