All FIRST programs are organized around two components:
- engaging teams of students in the process of technological innovation through the use of robotics; and
- bringing communities together to celebrate the achievements of students working smart in science and technology.
I love the CAPSELA@
According to their website: “CEATEC JAPAN is the Cutting-edge IT & Electronics Comprehensive Exhibition.”
As a comprehensive IT and electronics trade show where world-leading technologies, products and services are announced, CEATEC JAPAN is the focus of close attention by the industry and a truly wide range of users.According to me, check out the singing robot! (Just watch out for Typhoon No. 18!)
With the addition of Vocaloid software she sings! Observe the animatronics, her facial expressions are pretty good, the random blinking action is very close to life! This is happening now in Japan at their electronics show called Ceatec:
http://www.ceatec.com/2009/en/index.html
More on the origin of the Vocaloid software: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vocaloid#Kagamine_Rin_and_LenIt’s sends a chill up my spine – although as a child I always wanted my own robot, now I am “a’feared”.
More on Ceatec: http://www.ceatec.com/2009/en/index.html
Here is a new device out of Japan that is touted to aggregate your life-force into a database for easy “tacking” and overall “betterment” of your existence – everything and anything that is designed to help you do things better by tracking your every move is really designed to keep you in-line and sell you stuff!
The Polaris phone/robot is a three-part system that incorporates your phone, your television, and the robotic sphere seen above. The sphere contains speakers for the phone’s music, and wheels that roll the sphere to the closest power source to charge the phone. The sphere’s dock also links up with your television to display the detailed data about your life and behavior that the phone records.
So, NebuAd was shut down for doing this behind the ISP firewall, if you can get people to bring this cute little guy into their homes, you have the ultimate opt in. I suppose it’s a great gimmick for homeland security to track you!
Isn’t it possible for little brother to hook himself up to charge and at the same time TRANSMIT all your data to his LEADER over power lines??? Or does that only happen on the SyFy channel?
Sources:
http://k-tai.impress.co.jp/img/ktw/docs/314/341/photogallery/polaris20.jpg.html
