Once more the “ASV roboat” of the Austrian Association for Innovative Computer Science managed to win the world championship in robot sailing. The Microtransat, took place from Sept. 3th to 6th, 2007 in Aberystwyth (Wales). The competitors of the Austrian team came from France, Canada and the UK. Credit: InnoC.at Here some facts about the [...]
Have you ever been in the position that you had to answer this question? Well, based on my experience this isn’t easy at all. But the following video may assist you: [youtube x66lV7GOcNU nolink] Although it sounds tremendously simple, one of my experiments in company with some friends didn’t work. Why? I’m still not sure, [...]
There are hundreds of different versions (and aligned products) of affixing various stuff to your fridge in order to “communicate” with your housemates. Now GE started to market the most simple and (not only but at least therefore) best solution in Brasil: Refrigerador Risque-Rabisque (a fridge whose front serves as a whiteboard) Credit: General Electric
During the last few days I came across some articles about the future of virtual worlds. Here are the highlights: Virtual worlds and the future of TV Via the Endless Innovation blog I’ve found an NY Times article about the possible future of TV integrated in virtual worlds. Credit: Sundance Channel via New York Times [...]
Why should anyone pay $200,000 for solving Rubik’s Cube in 26 moves? Credit: Popular Science Blog The U.S. National Science Foundation supports this project becaue of it’s relevance for problems of search and enumeration. And scientists from the Northeastern University have completed the mission. In times of highly increasing amounts of data search interests will [...]
