If I had an office building, I’d put one of these in at the front entrance.
Category: cool
Inkling by Wacom
This looks very, very cool.
The biggest problem with this kind of tech before was that you needed special paper (with small grids, or dots) to have it work with your computer. This doesn’t. It lets you import your drawing as vectors, with layers, using regular paper.
A Robot That Flies Like a Bird
Apple to Unveil Lion, iCloud at WWDC 2011
Apple to Unveil Next Generation Software at Keynote Address on Monday, June 6
CUPERTINO, California—May 31, 2011—Apple® CEO Steve Jobs and a team of Apple executives will kick off the company’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) with a keynote address on Monday, June 6 at 10:00 a.m. At the keynote, Apple will unveil its next generation software – Lion, the eighth major release of Mac OS® X; iOS 5, the next version of Apple’s advanced mobile operating system which powers the iPad®, iPhone® and iPod touch®; and iCloud®, Apple’s upcoming cloud services offering.
WWDC will feature more than 100 technical sessions presented by Apple engineers. Mac® developers will see and learn how to develop world-class Mac OS X Lion applications using its latest technologies and capabilities. Mobile developers will be able to explore the latest innovations and capabilities of iOS and learn how to greatly enhance the functionality, performance and design of their apps. All developers can bring their code to the labs and work with Apple engineers.
For more details, visit the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2011 website at developer.apple.com/wwdc.
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Portal 2 Lecture
Watch out Netflix: Amazon Prime Unlimited Video
Watch out Netflix. It’s been rumored for a while that Amazon Prime Customers will be getting access to “Amazon.com Instant Video” for Free.
Well, it happened.
Dropbox 1.0 is out
If you’re a Dropbox user, go grab 1.0. They just released it.
Metropolis 2
Amazing Japanese Robot
Universal Robot Gripper – Made with Coffee and a Balloon
Sometimes the simplest things work the best. Researchers at Cornell, University of Chicago and iRobot (the Roomba folks) have created a robot gripper that is made with ground coffee and a latex balloon.
Basically, they vacuum air out of the coffee filled balloon and the structure inside becomes rigid. Let air in, and the structure relaxes. Think of how hard a brick of coffee is, and what it’s like after you cut through the vacuum packing.
The balloon presses into the object that they want to grip, vacuum out the air, and the balloon and coffee grip the object. A very inexpensive solution to a problem many people have been working on for a long time.
Check out the details and video at Physorg.com.