Daily Archives: October 2, 2011

ASIMO mimics your every move, edges closer towards Single White Robot territory (video)

ASIMO mimics your every move, edges closer towards Single White Robot territory (video)

Hey, look Engadgeteers! It’s another Kinect hack — except this one uses a real deal robot. Honda ushered ASIMO out to the crowds at IEEE’s 2011 International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems to show off its newly acquired pop and lock skills. Alright, so the silicon-gutted fella can’t krump with the best of’em yet, … Continued

Facebook Says It’s Looking Beyond Click-Throughs [INTERVIEW]

Facebook Says It’s Looking Beyond Click-Throughs [INTERVIEW]

As innovative and influential Facebook is, the company still mostly relies on a technology that’s been around since 1994: display advertising. Facebook’s display ads get fewer click-throughs than those that run elsewhere, at least according to one researcher. Not surprisingly, Facebook is looking to redefine the technology and de-emphasize click-throughs as a performance metric. In … Continued

Hitachi glasses-free 3D technology lets you view weird chicken things from multiple angles

Hitachi glasses-free 3D technology lets you view weird chicken things from multiple angles

We might not have chosen the above weird baby chick to pitch our autostereoscopic technology to the world, but at least it makes for some memorable imagery. The hatchling is a 3D image generated by projectors, overlayed on top of a real world object, which can be viewed by multiple people at multiple angles without … Continued

Solar dish maker Stirling files for bankruptcy

Solar dish maker Stirling files for bankruptcy

Stirling Energy Systems made solar dishes which generate heat to drive an engine which produces electricity.(Credit: Salt River Project) Solar company Stirling Energy Systems has filed for bankruptcy, another casualty of a brutal global price war which is favoring commodity photovoltaic panels. The Scottsdale, Arizona-based company filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy late last week. The … Continued