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9to5google. 9to5mac. Nanotechnology May Lead To The End Of Laundry Forever. Is nanotechnology going to send us all to hell? 3-D Printer with Nano-Precision. World's Smallest Hard Drive Built of Atoms. Nanotube bundles could boost solar cells. Robotics. Robotics: Machines and Man - Ethics and Robotics in the 21st Century. Robotica. MAKE. The Tech Museum: Robotics: Sensing, Thinking, Acting. ABB's FRIDA Offers Glimpse of Future Factory Robots. This headless, two-armed robot may be tomorrow's factory worker.
Its name is FRIDA, and it's a creation of ABB, the Swiss power and automation giant, which introduced it early this month at the Hannover trade show, Europe's largest industrial fair. Designed for assembly applications, FRIDA is capable of using its human-like arms to grasp and manipulate electronic components and other small parts. The machine is a concept robot that ABB created to show off its vision for a new kind of industrial robot.
Traditional industrial robots are big, expensive, and hard to integrate into existing manufacturing processes. They're also difficult to reprogram when production changes become necessary and they can't safely share spaces with human workers. With FRIDA, ABB is the latest among several companies building a new generation of industrial robots that are lighter, safer, more affordable, easier to deploy and reconfigure. Cool gadgets. 100 must-have tech toys. Five Clever Gadgets. Belkin WeMo Switch - Belkin This app/plug combination package allows you to use your home wi-fi network to turn on and off electronic devices.
The intuitive app is easy to set up, and allows you to activate switches manually, on a schedule, or by activating the motion sensors when you walk into a room. There's no set range for WeMo, meaning you can use your mobile internet to turn off electronics in your home from miles away or to switch your settings. It's only compatible with devices running iOS 5 or later, but otherwise WeMo is compatible with any Apple smartphone or tablet.
It's backed by a one-year warranty, and the accompanying app is completely free with the purchase of a plug. Advertisement Where To Buy: Available through Belkin or the Apple store Cost: From $A59.95. The Top Gadgets of CES 2012: Our Editor's Choice Awards. Apple. iPads can’t improve learning without good teaching Pt 2 – Writing. Used with permission from Debbie Ridpath Ohi at Inkygirl.com ( ) Writing and technology has been a controversial subject for many traditionalists in education. “Spell check stops children from learning to spell”. “All students do today is copy and paste from Wikipedia and Google searched articles.” ” Children need to handwrite all their drafts”. “William Shakespeare didn’t have a laptop” ( OK, i just threw that in for fun!) At the same time, of course, as a teacher I have been subjected to countless reports and stories typed in ridiculous unreadable coloured fonts, decorated with superfluous clip art and WordArt headings and thousands of “death by Powerpoints” unnecessarily printed out to hand up to me. 20 years of computers as a publishing tool has not necessarily improved the standard of students’ writing skills.
The key words in that last sentence are of course publishing and writing. Which leads me once more to the star of “Mr G Online”, the iPad. Cult of Mac. Lessons from an iPad Rollout. Mobile Computing | Feature Lessons from an iPad Rollout Florida's "first iPad high school" has deployed 300 iPads to its high school teachers and students.
Thanks to preparations on the infrastructure, training, and security fronts, the fall rollout has proved relatively snag-free. By Bridget McCrea09/21/11 In March and June, THE Journal reported on The Master's Academy and the challenges it was tackling on the way to becoming Florida's first iPad school. Preparations: Training, Bandwidth, Security "We distributed them about a week before school," said Salerno, "and the teachers and students are doing very well with the devices so far. " Campus WiFi coverage was one area that Salerno was holding his breath over when the devices were fired up Aug. 15.
The approach has worked well so far. Device security was another point of concern prior to rollout, especially because students would be taking their iPads home every night. Creative Uses for iPad in the Classroom. General. Is Apple Developing a Smart Watch? Apple is already seeking patents to develop smart shoes and apps that could turn strangers into walking ATMs, so news that the company may be developing a smart watch should come as no surprise.
BLOG: Apple App Could Turn Strangers Into Walking ATMs Citing sources inside Apple’s Cupertino headquarters, a recent story in the New York Times confirmed Apple is working on a wristwatch made of curved glass. Sources were familiar with the company’s explorations, but spoke on the condition of not being named because they’re not allowed to speak publicly on unreleased products. Two sources said that the watch would operate on Apple’s iOS platform and would distinguish itself from the competition due to the company’s knowledge about the curved glass that will be used. The Times spoke with Pete Bocko, the chief technology officer for Corning Glass Technologies. Newer Technology. The Past, Present, and Future of Data Storage. As we approach the end of 2011 and look forward to another year, we pause to reflect on the long history of data storage.
World's Smallest Hard Drive Built of Atoms. Just 96 atoms make up one byte of magnetic storage space. - Scientists have built a magnetic storage device made of 96 atoms. - The advance could lead to tiny hard drives able to store 200 to 300 times more information than they can today.
Hard drives could one day be the size of rice grains, powering music players so small they would fit inside your ear. Solid-state drive. DDR SDRAM based SSD. Max 128 GB and 3072 MB/s. PCIe, DRAM and NAND-based SSD. It uses an external power supply to make the DRAM non-volatile. As of 2010[update], most SSDs use NAND-based flash memory, which retains data without power. For applications requiring fast access, but not necessarily data persistence after power loss, SSDs may be constructed from random-access memory (RAM). Hybrid drives or solid state hybrid drives (SSHD) combine the features of SSDs and HDDs in the same unit, containing a large hard disk drive and an SSD cache to improve performance of frequently accessed data.[9][10][11]