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MIT’s AIDA Robot Will Be The Ultimate Backseat Driver

12:00PM Sean Fallon | Actually, the Affective Intelligent Driving Agent (AIDA) won’t be riding in the backseat, it’s mounted right on the dashboard — but it will make comments on how you drive. It also reacts to your emotional state and helps you navigate. More »
Online

Free Open Technology Courses That Will Save You Money

7:20AM Sean Fallon | I get annoyed when I think about all of the money I spent on tertiary education only to find that the internet is riddled with free technology courses from prestigious schools like MIT. More »
Hardware

100-Core Tilera TILE-Gx Processors Planned For 2011

10:56PM Danny Allen | While Intel and AMD look to make a complete jump to 8-cores, Tilera (an MIT start-up) says its upcoming 100-core chip has “at least four times the compute performance of an Intel Nehalem-Ex, while burning a third of the power”. More »
Science

Teapots Have A Dribbling Problem — Who Knew?

3:00AM Jack Loftus | Just like grandpa, teapots have long suffered from a dribbling problem. No longer. More »
Gadgets

Remainders- Things We Didn’t Post

2:00PM Wilson Rothman | Apple Second Only To Google In Social-Network Buzz…Robots Run Like Cheetahs, Climb Like Geckos…Drunk on Ego, NPR Brands Its Own Internet Radio…San Diego Finally Puts All That Sunshine to Good Use More »
Gadgets

MIT Is About To Revolutionise The Pop-Up Book

9:20AM Sean Fallon | In addition to curing blindness and developing solar cars, the minds at MIT have found time to revolutionize the world of pop-up books by integrating electronics for more “dynamic interactivity.” More »
Robots

MIT’s Autonomous Helicopter: What If Big Dog Could Fly?

12:40PM Chris Jacob | The latest Micro Air Vehicle from MIT does an incredible job of balancing itself in-air. Not to mention that the helicopter models its surroundings so well it could probably fly over to the fridge and make you a sandwich. More »
Science

MIT’s Eyeball Chip Could Make The Blind See

11:40PM Mark Wilson | MIT researchers are developing a microchip that adheres to an eye to revive sight, and it could begin human trials within three years. More »
Science

MIT Students Explain How To Photograph Space For $US150

6:45PM Danny Allen | On September 2, Justin Lee and Oliver Yeh successfully took these images of Earth’s curvature and the blackness of space using only a weather balloon and off-the-shelf components—without complicated hacks. Total cost: $US148. Here’s how they did it. More »
Robots

Robot Fish: Because Android Children Deserve Unsatisfying Pets Too

11:40AM John Herrman | So it’s not expressly intended to provide baby Asimos with unfulfilling relationships, but that would be adorable, no? In reality, it fancies itself an industrial tool, for monitoring “pipelines, sunken ships, and pollution”. Where’s your whimsy, robofish? More »