[/.] karvind writes “Physorg is running a story about OmniTread: a serpentine robot designed to traverse extremely difficult terrain, such as the rubble of a collapsed building. The 26-pound robot is developed at the University of Michigan U-M College of Engineering. It moves by rolling, log-style, or by lifting its head or tail, inchworm-like, and muscling itself forward. Link to videos. Check out there other robots as well.”
[/.] Mentifex writes “As reported in the New York Times, Kansas City Star and other news media, Jeff Hawkins (co-author of On Intelligence) and Donna Dubinsky, co-founders of Palm Computing and Handspring, along with Dileep George as the principal engineer, are starting an AI company named Numenta as a follow-up to Hawkins’ recent work on visual processing.”
[/.] glenkim writes “Remember Seth Nickell’s blog entry about next generation X Window rendering? Well, in case you were wondering what it would look like, he’s updated his blog with videos of luminocity, the experimental GNOME window manager, and screenshots of programatically themed widgets.” From the post: “The wobbly window effect is mildly addictive. Kristian hasn’t gotten much work done since he wrote it. He (and now I) spends all day moving windows around and watching them settle.”
[/.] wonderfesten writes “NASA has finally got its Centennial Challenges program off the ground. Like the X Prize, the Challenges award cash prizes to private inventors who come up with solutions to problems. The first challenges are to design a light-weight, ultra-strength tether and a means of transmitting power wirelessly. But with a prize of just $50,000, will anyone give it a shot?” Details also available on MSNBC and Space.com.
[/.] DirtyJ writes “Astronomers using the Spitzer
Space Telescope have for the first time discovered
two extrasoloar planets by directly detecting light from the planets themselves.
Usually planets are discovered by indirectly inferring their presence from the wobble of star they orbit, but Spitzer has been able to directly detect these objects at Infrared wavelengths. Nifty conceptual images and videos are available.”
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