“Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way” – Alan Watts
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A few blogs are passing around videos of the Ishikawa Komuro Lab’s high-speed robot hand performing impressive acts of dexterity and skillful manipulation. However, the video being passed around is slight on details. Meanwhile, their video presentation at ICRA 2009 (which took place in May in Kobe, Japan) has an informative narration and demonstrates…
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If you’re like most homeowners, you’re afraid that many repairs around your home are too difficult to tackle. So, when your furnace explodes, you call in a so-called professional to fix it. The “professional” arrives in a truck with lettering on the sides and deposits a large quantity of tools and two assistants who…
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I’ve been working between my new ideapad and the Thinkpad tablet… both are pretty good machines. I have been skeptical of both as I’ve really enjoyed my Macbook Pro. And I must say for some reason I don’t like Microsoft products. It’s a pain to say that because I don’t like to think I’m…
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Well so much for my first attempt at entering text with the pen-on-the-screen schenaegans of the Lenovo Thinkpad X200 Tablet. Then again, I’ve only been using the thing for about 10 minutes and I have to say I’m pretty impressed. I feel like this is something I’ve been waiting to arrive for a very long…
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“Since music sales peaked in 1999, the value of those sales, after adjusting for inflation, has dropped by more than half. At that rate, the industry could be decimated before Madonna’s 60th birthday. … 13- to 17-year-olds acquired 19 percent less music in 2008 than they did in 2007. CD sales among these teenagers…