10 Daily Things

Someone in Japan clearly thinks we’re going to believe this tall tale of a paper plane that’s to be thrown to Earth from the International Space Station.
According to the Asahi newspaper (translated here), the University of Tokyo is working with the Japan Origami Airplane Association on a folded paper dart that the teams hope to [...]

In the late 1990’s, two international special effects inventors, Francisco Guerra and Brian Glover, wondered what would happen if we could make clouds into shapes.
What if we can make logos? SnowMasters research and development facility in northern Alabama became the home of what is now known as Flogos - Logos that Fly!

Festo, the same company that brought us the Air Ray robot last year, has developed yet another graceful robot inspired by a creature of the sea. In fact, they have developed two versions, both based on the common jellyfish: the AquaJelly and the AirJelly. According to Festo, the AquaJelly is “an artificial autonomous jellyfish with [...]

For the majority of the population that has either an iPod or other Mp3 player, the majority of them out there lack bluetooth music capabilities. The Jabra A120 is looking to change that. Plug this into the jack you would plug your headset into and waalah your iPod is now bluetooth A2DP capable. What does [...]

A humanoid robot learning to cook an omelet by whipping eggs, cutting ham and grating cheese. Through the use of a probabilistic model, the robot progressively learns to generalize the skill to various situations.

The Eiffel Tower is an iron tower built on the Champ de Mars beside the River Seine in Paris. The tower has become a global icon of France and is one of the most recognizable structures in the world. The Parisian landmark is the tallest structure in Paris and one of the most recognized structures [...]

If you are based in Europe and you have a Nokia N-Series mobile phone, and you like play a game especially soccer. Now you have a chance to grab the most popular FIFA 08 mobile gaming for free.

Just go to play.n-gage.com, and then install the N-Gage application on your phone and just download the FIFA [...]

Placed at the lobby of the Radisson SAS Hotel in Berlin, the 25 meters high AquaDom is the largest cylindrical aquarium ever built. Filled with about 900,000 liters of seawater, it contains some 2600 fish of 56 species. The AquaDom was opened in December 2003. It cost about 12.8 million euros.

Robotics are often used in environments which are considered dangerous to humans. Deep sea exploration, nuclear cleanup and volcanism are some of the “higher profile” adverse environments which robots are used. What about other dangerous or hazardous areas?. For example, homeless people live in extremely dangerous environments. Shouldn’t there be automated equipment used by this [...]