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]
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
Still awake? There’s a Chumby FunBox app for that
The FunBox is a bedside alarm clock but it’s also a widget-running Chumby, which means it’ll let you check your twitter feeds, load up a track on Pandora or do other inappropriately stimulating activities right before catching some Zs. The device has just passed through the FCC and its paperwork reveals a 3.5-inch (possibly resistive) … Continued
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
Virgin Mobile announces LG Optimus Slider, sneakily postpones data throttling until 2012
Virgin Mobile was originally intending to celebrate the new month by flipping the switch on throttled data, but it decided to push those plans back and announce a couple new phones instead. The prepaid carrier announced the upcoming launch of the LG Optimus Slider (note: it’s not the Optimus Note) and the HTC Wildfire S … Continued
AT&T asks court to dismiss lawsuits filed by Sprint and C Spire Wireless
Well, look at Ma Bell now, wishing it’d all just go away. Tied up in lawsuits, the company has filed motions to dismiss the two complaints brought by Sprint and C Spire Wireless (formerly Cellular South), which seek to block AT&T’s acquisition of T-Mobile. In the filings, it’s argued that the two providers represent their … Continued
DOE nails down loans for giant solar projects
Millions of solar panels from First Solar like these will be deployed as part of the planned utility-scale projects in the Southwest. (Credit: NRG Energy) The U.S. Department of Energy today finalized financing for four utility-scale solar projects, capping a week of intense activity amid heightened political scrutiny on the loan guarantee program. The solar … Continued
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


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