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A hopping robot jumps over the head of Sandia National Laboratories researcher Gary Fischer (Photos: Randy Montoya)

Robotics

Sandia hoppers have robots jumping for joy

Hopping robots could prove the answer to giving robots unprecedented mobility for exploring other planets, gathering battlefield intelligence, and assisting police during standoffs or surveillance operations.

Access to technology is just an armrest away when you have the Athena sofa

Around The Home

The multimedia Athena sofa

Artanova, a Swiss-based company has created a modern, upholstered sofa that incorporates multimedia into its design.

The iPX3 Instant Messaging Clock (Pic: Innovatoys)

Electronics

Time to connect with the iXP3 Internet Messaging Clock

The iPX3 Instant Messaging Clock connects to the Internet to become a personal message system, with an airborne display.

The motion-sensitive MH907 earphones from Sony Ericsson

Music

Sony's MH907 earphones automatically pause music to answer the phone

Sony Ericsson has announced earphones which control how a mobile phone behaves simply by placing or removing them from the ears

The Yoke Shopper is essentially a portable strap

Good Thinking

Become a human packhorse with the Yoke Shopper

The Yoke Shopper is an ingeniously simple device that allows shoppers to lock together a number of plastic shopping bags and carry them on a shoulder.

Music

iNudge - try out this free, online music sequencing widget

More than a little reminiscent of Yamaha's bizarre Tenori-On, iNudge is a free online composition and sequencing tool that takes all the pesky music training out of making music. Try it right here in your browser window.

The DRIVSCO system learns from driver's good behavior and recognizes changes in driving patterns

Automotive

DRIVSCO ‘learning vehicles’ alert their drivers to dangers

The DRIVSCO system enables vehicles to recognize their drivers’ normal behavior and therefore avoid accidents caused by unusual behavior. The system detects the anomalies and warn drivers early enough to give them time to react.

The hand-made prototype for David Schwartz's laser/smoke microphone.

Music

Video: Laser/smoke microphone promises the world's most accurate sound capture

Completely eliminating all the interference a traditional microphone causes in its reproduction of sound, David Schwartz's laser/smoke microphone concept looks set to usher in a new era of transparent audio reproduction.

Purdue University's Tannaz Harirchian and Professor Suresh Garimella have developed a new means of cooling chips in electric and hybrid applications(Photo: Andrew Hancock)

Environment

Keeping hybrids cool under the bonnet reaches boiling point

Researchers in the U.S. believe the secret to cooling the electronics in a hybrid engine may lie in understanding precisely how fluid boils in tiny ‘microchannels’.

$The GreenSun Energy solar cell uses a fraction of the silicon found in existing cells and can even generate power when not in direct sunlight$

Environment

Color matters: GreenSun Energy colored solar technology

Researchers led by Professor Renata Reisfeld have created a solar cell which uses a fraction of the silicon found in existing cells and can keep on soaking up light even when the sun doesn't shine

Mooly Eden, general manager of Intel's PC Client Group, demonstrates the difference between Intel's new Intel Core i7 processor and the Ibex peak chipset during his megabriefing at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco.

Computing

Intel Core i7 Mobile Processor - fastest ever laptop chips

Intel says its i7 Mobile Processor chip now puts processing power that was reserved for desktop computing in the lap of the mobile community.

Karen Braun, Xerox color research scientist, helped develop a natural language that allows users to simply describe the color they want. (Photo: Kevin Rivoli)

Photography

DEMO: Xerox 'Color By Words' uses simple language to get great pictures

Xerox’s Color By Words technology lets users select phrases from a drop-down menu that help them adjust colors in their images simply, quickly and accurately.

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