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If you've ever wanted a pair of gloves associated with one of the great leaps in computer technology, now's the time. Prototype typing gloves developed by Douglas Engelbart and Valerie Landau to replace keyboards as interface devices are up for auction.

Designed by computer pioneer Douglas Engelbart and licensed by Apple at the dawn of the personal computing era, the early three-button "X-Y" mouse is a rare and important piece of history.

Robots are more and more becoming part of our everyday lives. If so, then a lot of the credit goes to a 50 year old box on wheels called Shakey – the "world's first electronic person."

In the exhibition area at the 2015 DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals, a pair of humanoid prototypes built by SRI and Sandia National Laboratories hit the treadmills to demonstrate new technology that allows robots to operate longer on a single battery charge.

In addition to offering task automation and data filtering, SRI's bRight tries to predict the actions, behavior and needs of users based on previous activity and active monitoring systems.