Archive for March, 2008

New York cab of the future?

Friday, March 28th, 2008

Mar. 20 - Ford unveils a taxi cab concept that's short but tall, offering lots of storage space. The cab is 30 percent more fuel efficient than current cabs. Fred Katayama reports from the New York International Auto Show.

Robo-chop

Friday, March 28th, 2008

Mar. 25 - Fighting robots battle for supremacy in the latest of Japan's Robo-One Championships. More than 100 humanoid robots were entered for the two-day contest which, at the end, saw less than half still standing and divided between heavyweights and featherweights.

myYearbook

Friday, March 21st, 2008

Social networking is all the rage these days and one of the latest and greatest sites on the national scene is myYearbook.com, which is sort of a combination of the viral widgets of Facebook and style and features of Myspace. The network already has over five million members and is ...

Dinosaur wows the techies at CeBIT

Friday, March 7th, 2008

Mar. 5 - Pleo the robotic dinosaur proves to be a star attraction at the CeBIT annual computer expo in Germany. Pleo was designed by its creators, the Californian company Ugobe, to emulate the appearance and behaviour of a week-old infant Camerasaurus. It's being marketed as a household pet. Helen Long reports.

The ‘Morph’ mobile of the future

Friday, March 7th, 2008

Mar. 7 - A concept phone now on display at New York's Museum of Modern Art demonstrates Nokia's vision for how handsets might evolve. The Morph concept is the result of a collaboration between the Nokia Research Centre and Cambridge University's nanoscience centre. Reuters Technology Correspondent Matt Cowan reports on the likelihood ...

Stuff On My Cat

Friday, March 7th, 2008

Stuff On My Cat is one of those silly, time wasting sites that I visit maybe once a year when I remember it exists.  It's not quite as funny as its sister site, I Can Has Cheezeburger, but it's worth the occasional visit.  The photos on the site feature, as ...

Cute “Happy Leap Year” Video

Friday, March 7th, 2008