After getting off to a slow start, Android phones have gone gangbusters. As of last July, there was only one Android-powered device available in the U.S., but that number has since exploded. Now, there are eight Android phones available stateside, with more expected to debut in the coming months. So things must be looking pretty great ....
Sort of like a real-life Wall-E, the bot gathers rubbish and sorts it into recyclable, organic (hopefully to be composted), and waste. Then it whisks it off to a waste management facility, finding its way using pre-loaded maps and sensors to avoid obstacles.
Robots have started doing things we never even considered they\'d be able to do. We use them in law enforcement and military settings to disarm bombs and check out unsafe situations. We use them to learn more about the environments of our own planet and others. And some people even use them to beat their friends at video games.
Maisonneuve\'s team has developed NoiseTube, a downloadable software app which uses people\'s smartphones to monitor noise pollution. \"The goal was to turn the mobile phone into an environmental sensor,\" says Maisonneuve.
Today\'s technology, of course, allows nations and agencies to undertake spying from afar—literally, in some cases, from space—but in the depths of the Cold War, and in the early days of private eyes, spy gadgets required a high degree of hands-on finesse from the man or woman in the field.
Despite strict \"codes of conduct,\" labor rights violations are the norm at factories making the world\'s favorite high-tech gadgets. Whether it\'s your cherished iPhone, Nokia cell phone or Dell keyboard, it was likely made and assembled in Asia by workers who have few rights, and often toil under sweatshop-like conditions, activists say.
Tempo Tags are tiny clip-on clocks that turn almost anything into a watch. Tempo Thermo Tags are the same, only instead of reading out the time, they tell you the temperature. There’s a theory that the pocket watch has returned, almost entirely replacing the irksome, vulgar upstart wrist-watch, which had itself pushed the pocket-watch into obscuri
The start was very common: HTC smartphones based on Windows Mobile were no different from other devices, except the badge of the manufacturer and design.
Out of nowhere, Boxee announced that it has located its first-ever hardware partner, which basically means that some sort of Boxee set-top box is on the way.\\r