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This week on gdgt: MOGA Pro, Xbox One, Xperia Tablet Z
Each week, our friends at gdgt go through the latest gadgets and score them to help you decide which ones to buy. Here are some of their most recent picks. Want more? Visit gdgt anytime to catch up on the latest, and subscribe to gdgt's newsletter to get a weekly roundup in your inbox.
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Critics Consensus: Monsters University is Certified Fresh
Plus, World War Z is smart and tense, and The Bling Ring is stylish and lurid.
Also opening this week in limited release:
- A Hijacking, a thriller about a Danish cargo ship commandeered by a group of Somali pirates, is Certified Fresh at 100 percent.
- The Attack, a drama about a prominent Israeli Palestinian whose wife is posthumously accused of being a suicide bomber, is at 92 percent.
- Unfinished Song, starring Gemma Arterton and Terence Stamp in a dramedy about a grumpy older guy who comes out of his shell when he joins a local choir, is at 64 percent.
- Maniac, starring Elijah Wood in a thriller about a withdrawn shop owner whose dark side is unleashed, is at 54 percent.
- The French import Three Worlds, a drama about disparate people who reconnect after a hit-and-run accident, is at 43 percent.
- Somm, a documentary about a group of wine experts working to pass the demanding Master Sommelier test, is at 33 percent.
- Rushlights, a thriller about a pair of teens who get into big trouble when they attempt to claim an inheritance under false pretenses, is at zero percent.
Source: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1927703/news/1927703/
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FOR KIDS: Cool Jobs ? Moved by life
Biologically inspired robots travel ? naturally
By Sharon Oosthoek
Web edition: June 21, 2013
Enlarge Do the locomotion
A robot built to mimic the movements of a shark relative, the cownose ray, takes a dip.
Credit: Norm Shafer
Meet three researchers who study animal locomotion. Each of the critters they work with has perfected a style of movement over millions of years. Their moves have inspired these engineers to build robots that can do important and useful jobs ? ones that people can?t do. Known as biomimicry,?it's the design of new technologies based on nature.
Visit the new?Science News for Kids?website and read the full story:??Cool Jobs ? Moved by life
Source: http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/351179/title/FOR_KIDS_Cool_Jobs__Moved_by_life
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Will iRobot and Cisco's New Robot Take a Bite Out of Business ...
If Cisco and iRobot have their way, robot CEOs may invade boardrooms from Tokyo to New York in 2014. The two companies?recently announced collaboration on the autonomous Ava 500 telepresence robot for business. The firms hope the Ava 500 will allow business people to attend daily meetings in person, across the planet?without ever changing a plane or time zone.
The navigation technology behind iRobot?s Roomba robot vacuum cleaner and the RP Vita medical telepresence robot will guide the five foot five inch, 100 pound Ava 500. Meanwhile, a Cisco TelePresence EX60 personal video endpoint will broadcast a worker?s face and voice from its?21.5? screen and send back sounds and images via an onboard camera and microphone.
Using a special app on a tablet, remote workers will wake the robot up and tell it where to go. The Ava 500 can map and autonomously navigate the halls of its home office, freeing the telecommuter to make small talk along the way (or leave the screen off until it reaches its destination). After a meeting, the unit dutifully returns to its charging station to catch a few winks and juice up for its next appointment.
iRobot CEO, Colin Angle, told the Boston Herald the Ava 500 gives folks the chance to be in the same room as the people they?re meeting, to see facial expressions, and to go in the hall after for a private chat. Angie Mistretta, director of telepresence solutions at Cisco, says, ?The real value of the robot is that spontaneity.?
The question is whether that spontaneity is worth the robot?s $70,000 price tag?(or?$2,000 ? $2,500 a month to rent). iRobot and Cisco are targeting executives, corporate trainers, site inspectors, and remote employees. Travel costs for these folks can stack up fast.?If Ava 500 saves even a few trips a month, the robot could pay its way.
But businesses are cost cutting machines. If telepresence robots are attractive at $70,000, then they?re even more appealing at $7,000, and exponentially sexier as the price tag approaches $0.?And already, firms can order a simpler telepresence robot from Double Robotics for $2,599. Businesses may be willing to sacrifice a little screen real estate and autonomous navigation for $67,000 in saved costs.
Double Robotics iPad telepresence robot.
And they may not need to make that sacrifice very long.?Advanced AI and robotics are entering the consumer market at drastically reduced prices.
We recently wrote about AI startup Anki. Anki?s robot cars drive themselves around a track at top speed, avoiding each other, the wall, making evasive maneuvers?all this runs on iOS with an expected cost of $200.?But Anki isn?t just about toy cars. It?s an iOS-powered consumer AI and robotics platform.
Such technology will just as easily guide an autonomous telepresence robot through the office. And soon. Offering enterprise solutions at enterprise prices in a world where AI and robotics are hitting consumer markets at consumer prices?how long will such products make sense?
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Friday, June 21, 2013
Tokyo court rules in Apple's favor in patent battle, Samsung has deja vu
In case you forgot, Samsung and Apple's legal squabbles didn't end in US federal court last year: the litigation rages on in international courts. Stop us if you've heard this one -- Samsung and Apple are caught up in a lawsuit focusing in part on Cupertino's bounce back patent, and things aren't looking great for Sammy's lawyers. It's a familiar story, but this time it's playing out in a Japanese courtroom, with a Tokyo judge deciding that a number of Samsung devices are in violation of Apple's scrolling technology. What's this mean to the consumer? Nothing yet -- the court still hasn't calculated damages or approved an injunction, and this isn't the only legal battle the firms are waging in the country's court system. Feel free to brush up on your kanji and check out the source link below for more details, or skip on over to Bloomberg for a more digestible account.
Filed under: Cellphones, Apple, Samsung
Source: http://feeds.engadget.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~3/4n3cgtRkCAg/
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Networked cars make traffic safer and more efficient
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Public release date: 20-Jun-2013[ | E-mail |
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Vehicles communicate with one another -- field test involving 500 testers
This news release is available in German.
The system developed within the framework of the simTD (Safe Intelligent Mobility Test Field Germany) project links vehicles and infrastructure together electronically. Cars, motor bikes and roadside stations installed along the route receive information about traffic situations and external factors, such as bad weather, via sensors. Using specially developed radio technology, based on the WLAN standard, they exchange information directly among themselves. They also transmit anonymized information to a traffic center, which then forecasts and manages traffic developments.
Drivers with simTD technology equipped vehicles are in a significantly better position for anticipatory driving. For one thing, they can view a display offering them suggestions for the best route to take and recommendations such as the optimum speed needed to ride a 'green wave' (a succession of green traffic lights along a stretch of road).
For another, drivers receive acoustic and visual warnings to advise them of imminent risks. For example, a light signal is displayed if a car ahead brakes sharply even if there are several other vehicles between the car that is braking and the driver's car. This means that the driver can react even if he or she cannot yet see the danger. Traffic backups, emergency vehicles and dropped loads that may be blocking the road are also signaled in good time.
Does this system work in everyday situations? Which functions are accepted by users? In order to find out more, the simTD project sent around 120 vehicles out onto highways, country roads and city streets in and around Frankfurt for a period of six months. Five hundred test drivers traveled almost one million miles (1.6 million kilometers) as part of the experiment. The 'scripts', containing various scenarios for the field test, were designed mainly by traffic engineers at Technische Universitt Mnchen. They also analyzed the data that was collected more than four terabytes in total. The scientists not only analyzed the actual effects of the experiment on the traffic situation in the test region, they also simulated how traffic would react if a certain number of all vehicles were equipped with the system.
"The field test clearly shows that the system provides for enhanced safety, efficiency and comfort in road traffic," says Professor Fritz Busch, TUM's Chair of Traffic Engineering and Control. "Drivers have used the information to adapt their speed and driving behavior earlier to a particular traffic situation. The benefits of networking are great, particularly in situations where hidden dangers lurk."
For example, more than half of all accidents at intersections could be prevented if all vehicles were equipped with the simTD system. The system notifies drivers in city traffic in good time before they reach an intersection about vehicles that are approaching from the other street.
Even if a small number of cars are fitted with the system, some of the functions will benefit all road users. For example, when the test drivers were informed about imminent road works, they slowed down and, if necessary, changed lane. As a result, the risk of a pileup was also reduced for the other vehicles.
"The car-to-x technology is now ready for market," says project coordinator Dr. Christian Wei. As a first step, a system is planned for a corridor between Rotterdam and Vienna, via Frankfurt/Main. This system, planned for 2015, will record the traffic situation at road works and issue the relevant warnings to drivers. To standardize the technology further, the project partners are working with other European automakers and authorities.
If the simTD function was implemented in all vehicles, the project partners estimate that savings of up to EUR 6.5 billion could be achieved in Geramny alone due to the number of accidents prevented. Another EUR 4.9 billion could be saved each year through shorter travel times and lower environmental pollution.
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About simTD:
simTD is a joint project by leading German automotive manufacturers, component suppliers, telecommunication companies, research institutions and public authorities. simTD partners are as follows: Adam Opel AG, AUDI AG, BMW AG - BMW Forschung und Technik GmbH, Daimler AG (Projektleitung), Ford Forschungszentrum Aachen GmbH, Volkswagen AG, Robert Bosch GmbH, Continental Teves AG & Co. oHG, Deutsche Telekom AG, Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Frderung der angewandten Forschung e.V., Deutsches Forschungszentrum fr Knstliche Intelligenz GmbH (DFKI), Technische Universitt Berlin, Technische Universitt Mnchen, Hochschule fr Technik und Wirtschaft des Saarlandes, Universitt Wrzburg, Hessen Mobil Straen- und Verkehrsmanagement, Stadt Frankfurt am Main. The project is funded and supported by the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology (BMWi), the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), the Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Development (BMVBS). simTD was supported by the state of Hessen, the German Association of the Automotive Industry (VDA) and the Car 2 Car Communication Consortium.
More information:
http://www.simTD.de
Photos and TV footage:
http://www.simtd.de/index.dhtml/5551c04fa1681935369p/-/enEN/-/CS/-/news/Presse
Contact:
Silja Hoffmann
Technische Universitt Mnchen
Chair for Traffic Engineering and Control (Prof. Dr. Fritz Busch)
T: +49 89 289 22798
E: silja.hoffmann@tum.de
W: http://www.vt.bgu.tum.de/en/home/
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Public release date: 20-Jun-2013[ | E-mail |
Share ] Contact: Silja Hoffmann
silja.hoffmann@tum.de
49-892-892-2798
Technische Universitaet Muenchen
Vehicles communicate with one another -- field test involving 500 testers
This news release is available in German.
The system developed within the framework of the simTD (Safe Intelligent Mobility Test Field Germany) project links vehicles and infrastructure together electronically. Cars, motor bikes and roadside stations installed along the route receive information about traffic situations and external factors, such as bad weather, via sensors. Using specially developed radio technology, based on the WLAN standard, they exchange information directly among themselves. They also transmit anonymized information to a traffic center, which then forecasts and manages traffic developments.
Drivers with simTD technology equipped vehicles are in a significantly better position for anticipatory driving. For one thing, they can view a display offering them suggestions for the best route to take and recommendations such as the optimum speed needed to ride a 'green wave' (a succession of green traffic lights along a stretch of road).
For another, drivers receive acoustic and visual warnings to advise them of imminent risks. For example, a light signal is displayed if a car ahead brakes sharply even if there are several other vehicles between the car that is braking and the driver's car. This means that the driver can react even if he or she cannot yet see the danger. Traffic backups, emergency vehicles and dropped loads that may be blocking the road are also signaled in good time.
Does this system work in everyday situations? Which functions are accepted by users? In order to find out more, the simTD project sent around 120 vehicles out onto highways, country roads and city streets in and around Frankfurt for a period of six months. Five hundred test drivers traveled almost one million miles (1.6 million kilometers) as part of the experiment. The 'scripts', containing various scenarios for the field test, were designed mainly by traffic engineers at Technische Universitt Mnchen. They also analyzed the data that was collected more than four terabytes in total. The scientists not only analyzed the actual effects of the experiment on the traffic situation in the test region, they also simulated how traffic would react if a certain number of all vehicles were equipped with the system.
"The field test clearly shows that the system provides for enhanced safety, efficiency and comfort in road traffic," says Professor Fritz Busch, TUM's Chair of Traffic Engineering and Control. "Drivers have used the information to adapt their speed and driving behavior earlier to a particular traffic situation. The benefits of networking are great, particularly in situations where hidden dangers lurk."
For example, more than half of all accidents at intersections could be prevented if all vehicles were equipped with the simTD system. The system notifies drivers in city traffic in good time before they reach an intersection about vehicles that are approaching from the other street.
Even if a small number of cars are fitted with the system, some of the functions will benefit all road users. For example, when the test drivers were informed about imminent road works, they slowed down and, if necessary, changed lane. As a result, the risk of a pileup was also reduced for the other vehicles.
"The car-to-x technology is now ready for market," says project coordinator Dr. Christian Wei. As a first step, a system is planned for a corridor between Rotterdam and Vienna, via Frankfurt/Main. This system, planned for 2015, will record the traffic situation at road works and issue the relevant warnings to drivers. To standardize the technology further, the project partners are working with other European automakers and authorities.
If the simTD function was implemented in all vehicles, the project partners estimate that savings of up to EUR 6.5 billion could be achieved in Geramny alone due to the number of accidents prevented. Another EUR 4.9 billion could be saved each year through shorter travel times and lower environmental pollution.
###
About simTD:
simTD is a joint project by leading German automotive manufacturers, component suppliers, telecommunication companies, research institutions and public authorities. simTD partners are as follows: Adam Opel AG, AUDI AG, BMW AG - BMW Forschung und Technik GmbH, Daimler AG (Projektleitung), Ford Forschungszentrum Aachen GmbH, Volkswagen AG, Robert Bosch GmbH, Continental Teves AG & Co. oHG, Deutsche Telekom AG, Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Frderung der angewandten Forschung e.V., Deutsches Forschungszentrum fr Knstliche Intelligenz GmbH (DFKI), Technische Universitt Berlin, Technische Universitt Mnchen, Hochschule fr Technik und Wirtschaft des Saarlandes, Universitt Wrzburg, Hessen Mobil Straen- und Verkehrsmanagement, Stadt Frankfurt am Main. The project is funded and supported by the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology (BMWi), the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), the Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Development (BMVBS). simTD was supported by the state of Hessen, the German Association of the Automotive Industry (VDA) and the Car 2 Car Communication Consortium.
More information:
http://www.simTD.de
Photos and TV footage:
http://www.simtd.de/index.dhtml/5551c04fa1681935369p/-/enEN/-/CS/-/news/Presse
Contact:
Silja Hoffmann
Technische Universitt Mnchen
Chair for Traffic Engineering and Control (Prof. Dr. Fritz Busch)
T: +49 89 289 22798
E: silja.hoffmann@tum.de
W: http://www.vt.bgu.tum.de/en/home/
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Source: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-06/tum-ncm062013.php
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