Robots really are pervading our everyday lives. Earlier they were no more than show pieces. These days, we even find them by the side of our sick beds. If you were of the opinion that robots have no...
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It seems that just about anything that can be done, can be done with the use of some kind of a device. And if not, then that gadget is in the works. This article oohs over using the phone......
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In this article, the author talks about the growth of the Internet and how essentially no one saw it coming. And even when it did arrive, no one nearly predicted the explosion that it would make on...
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The authors of this article made a point of reminding you to call your mom on Mother's Day. Oh sorry, that was "text" your mom on Mother's Day. Okay boys, a live phone call would be...
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Ten minutes into the New Year I was reminded of what primitive times we live in. My wife and I were at a party in Washington, DC. We each split off from the other guests and called friends and...
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It's low-tech week here at Philoneist. I've noticed lately that my high-tech gadgets are having low-tech problems and that low-tech solutions easily solve high-tech social problems. Like...
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Colleagues over at Science Blogs are probing a topic near and dear, the state of science journalism. This profession strikes rather close to home, since I recently left my post as a science...
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Filed in archive Communications
by Scott on September 15, 2006
According to Keitai Watch and RFID in Japan, NTT DoCoMo, Japan's largest mobile operator, is testing an application to enable RFID-ready mobile handsets to read tags in the retail environment...
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Europe's Galileo GPS project reached an important milestone today when a Russian Soyuz rocket blasted a prototype test satellite into space from Kazahistan. In development, the EU has acquired...
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Talkman, a $70 application for Sony's PSP (PlayStation Portable) handheld, utilizes speech recognition software to translate conversations in real-time between English, Japanese, Chinese...
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The use of low-cost cell phones has increased sharply in Africa, due to their ability to provide cheap communication in areas that were never wired for land-based phones. Where land-based phones were...
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A number of potentially groundbreaking cell phone technologies are making news around the internet today, particularly the emergence of haptics(transmitting and receiving tactile sensations, in the...
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From Philoneist's recent and humble origins on Blogger.com, click continue for a chronologically ordered record of posts from before October 13th.......
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