Christmas Gadgets

As you know, when iRobot isn’t hard at work developing some adorable automated vacuum cleaners , it has a quite lucrative sideline in DARPA-funded research projects . On that front, it looks like we finally have some results to report back on that ChemBot project that first appeared on our radar early last year. Unveiled at the International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) yesterday, this palm-sized troublemaker is being billed as “the first demonstration of a completely

It’s hard to find a more poignant demonstration of the passing of an age than this product. The Seiko ER8000 Digital Encyclopedia Britannica contains 25,000 entries and 240,000 words taken from the original, leather bound knowledge icon, and to rub salt in the wound manages to cram in a 130,000 word spell-checker, the [...]