For everything from family to computers…
It doesn’t matter how many signal relay towers blanket your city, the quality of your wireless reception can often change drastically—sometimes within a few steps. But MIT researchers think they’ve figured out how to improve reception using error correcting codes that work regardless of signal noise. More »
from Engadget
If it’s Cisco talking about network/Internet, I’d listen… and seeing how Netflix already uses up significant chunk of the Internet bandwidth, I agree…
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GIGAOM — Cisco, the networking giant, has read the mobile data tea leaves again, and it predicts that this year the global population of mobile users will switch to streaming the majority of their content from “the cloud.” This will represent a shift from downloaded and sideloaded content on their devices to streamed content, such as Netflix movies or Pandora. If you want to know what that looks like, just check out the U.S. which currently hit the tipping point in 2011 with 54 percent of its traffic coming from “the cloud.”
from CNN Money
Apple claims Google’s unified search, word suggestions, slide unlocking, and data tapping features are illegal
This was made in honor of Thomas Edison’s 165th b-day… Would’ve been awesome to meet him in person.
A robotic hand made entirely of Legos is one of the most realistic robo-hands we have seen, matching the entire range of motion of a real one. It moves pretty slowly, but that’s OK – slow and steady wins the race, and pours the drink without splashing.
Builder Max Shepherd used Lego motors and pneumatics to move the arm, which he says can only lift a couple of pounds. The goal was to mimic the full range of motion of a human hand, not to lift tons of weight. It’s an impressive show of what can be done with some mad Lego skills.
The softest grippy hands we have seen don’t look human at all, so this is quite a feat. Watch the fingers curl softly around a water bottle or other object.
[Tinkernology via Engadget]
from Popular Science – New Technology, Science News, The Future Now
If you loved the latest iCade controllers for iPhone and iPad, you are going to want to have sex with their new iCade 8-Bitty, a Nintendo-style gamepad controller with eight buttons. More »
from Gizmodo
