Engadget http://www.engadget.com Engadget http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif Engadget http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/<![CDATA[Late mid-week shocker: young adults get their 'news' from the 'net, not from television]]>http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/06/late-mid-week-shocker-young-adults-get-their-news-from-the-n/http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/06/late-mid-week-shocker-young-adults-get-their-news-from-the-n/http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/06/late-mid-week-shocker-young-adults-get-their-news-from-the-n/#comments In what is undoubtedly a shocking and groundbreaking revelation, the Pew Research Center has conducted a recent study which has caused it to conclude that young adults now get their news predominantly from the internet, rather than from television (and even less from ham radio). According to the study, which the center seems to have been conducting yearly for a while now, 67 percent of adults under 30 said in 2010 that the 'net was their primary source of news, up from 34 percent in 2007. Curiously, respondents could choose up to two 'main' news sources, so 52 percent report that television is a main news source in 2010, down from 68 percent in 2007. While none of this probably comes as any surprise to any of you, our readers, it does tend to explain that strange and ever-growing tendency we've noticed in our friends of talking about things like Groupon, Facebook, and some meme some webpage made up to sell something as if they were talking about actual news.

Late mid-week shocker: young adults get their 'news' from the 'net, not from television originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 06 Jan 2011 13:29:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The humans vs. computers battle just got a little more complicated, if you're keeping score. The Mainichi Daily News is reporting that for the first time ever, a computer has beaten a human Shogi champion, Ichiyo Shimizu, in Tokyo. The game lasted six hours, and the computer reportedly pursued Shimizu "aggressively" from the start. The governing association of pro Shogi players will now review the game to determine whether it will allow the computer to move onto challenge another player.

Computer wins at Japanese Chess against human for the first time originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 13 Oct 2010 17:19:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Surgical procedures assisted by robots are nothing new -- they can be more precise and less invasive -- and now it looks like a new upgrade could make them even better. The main drawback of a surgical robot is that the human surgeon performing the operation gets no tactile feedback, but that's not the case with Sofie. Sofie, a joystick controlled robot gives haptic feedback to the surgeon by adjusting the resistance the controls give to indicate how much pressure is being exerted, surely a welcome addition to bots of this kind. This robot is also more compact than many earlier bots of this kind, and its creators are now looking to bring it into production, with a goal of it coming to the market in about five years.

Sofie surgical robot gives haptic feedback for a more humane touch originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 11 Oct 2010 23:13:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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 Boeing has announced plans to add space tourism to its CST-100 -- or Crew Space Transportation-100-- low orbit flights by 2015. Operated by a partnership with Space Adventures, the flights will be able to carry up to seven passengers about 62 miles above Earth's surface, and the craft are currently being developed with the help of NASA.The vehicles could also be used as a ferry to get people to and from the various space habitats companies are working away at. There's no word on what the pricing of one of these journeys will look like, but trust us: Jared Leto will be able to afford one, while you probably will not.

Boeing plans to add space tourism seats to its CST-100 flights by 2015 originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 16 Sep 2010 11:11:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Microsoft Principal Researcher Bill Buxton: Surface will be in homes within three years originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 13 Sep 2010 22:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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You're looking at the eight finalists (culled from the submissions of over 1,300) of the Electrolux Design Lab 2010 competition. If like us, you're really into kitchen tech, you're in luck: there's plenty to be had here, including the BioRobot refrigerator, the Elements Modular kitchen and the Dismount washer. It's enough to get us seriously excited for the future. Up next, the eight finalists will be narrowed down to just one winner, who will get a six-month long, paid interneship at Electrolux's global design center, plus a €5,000 prize (nearly $6,000). Below you can check out a video for the BioRobot refrigerator. Hit up the source link for videos of the other finalists.

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Electrolux Design Lab 2010 competition finalists: the future's so bright... originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 30 Aug 2010 17:14:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Guess what Barnes & Noble Chairman Leonard Riggio doesn't use to read? A Nook originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 24 Aug 2010 18:23:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Prototype of robot that develops emotions on interacting with humans officially complete originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 14 Aug 2010 12:44:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Computer Board coffee table blends the past with the future with charm and dignified elegance originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 23 Jul 2010 12:06:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Newfangled spacesuit unveiled in New York originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 18 Jul 2010 23:05:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Beer-fetching robot promises to make your significant other obsolete originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 08 Jul 2010 14:34:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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AQUA2 amphibious robot is super cute and fast, less annoying than most pets because it has no head originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 08 Jul 2010 14:14:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The idea of a flying car is probably the most stereotypical emblem of "the future" anyone can possibly offer up -- but we never really tire of it regardless. Logi AeroSpace is the latest start up to revive those fantasies, and as you can see from the concept shot above, they're aiming high. Called the Tyrannos, the newest flying car to come on our radar is a four-wheeler that has four small rotary wings to get it off the ground. The car is designed to be road and air-friendly, meaning that it can take off from the road, avoiding obstacles in military situations, with a maximum height of around 1,000 feet, the car would seat four and ideally take almost no special training -- meaning you wouldn't have to be a pilot to drive / fly one. The company has pitched the idea to DARPA , where many military projects get their first breath of life, so we'll keep our eyes peeled for any developments on this one.

Tyrannos flying military car concept avoids road obstacles... by flying originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 05 Jul 2010 23:03:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Researchers at Harvard University have successfully created a functioning, respirating human 'lung' on a chip in a lab. Made using human and blood vessel cells and a microchip, the translucent lung is far simpler in terms of observation than traditional, actual human lungs (for obvious reasons), in a small convenient package about the size of a pencil eraser. The researchers have demonstrated its effectiveness and are now moving toward showing its ability to replicate gas exchange between lung cells and the bloodstream. Down the road a bit more, the team hopes to produce other organs on chips, and hook them all up to the already operational heart on a chip. And somewhere in the world, Margaret Atwood and her pigoons are rejoicing, right? Here's to the future. Video description of the device is below.

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Researchers create functioning human lung on a microchip originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 28 Jun 2010 09:42:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Electrolux Bio Robot Refrigerator: because you want to store your food in ectoplasm originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 21 Jun 2010 23:11:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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California considers electronic ads on license plates, we consider never moving there originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 21 Jun 2010 22:04:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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We don't speak German, and machine translation continues to be an intermittent and annoying bundle of failure, so bear with us on this one as we try to cobble together what exactly is going on here. This is Muon, the humanoid robot who is apparently being developed in Berlin by Frackenpohl Poulheim at the ALEAR Laboratory of Neuro Robotics at the Humboldt University in Berlin. Like other humanoid bots, Muon is about the size of an eight year old child so as not to creep out his human companions by being too threatening, and his design, while reminiscent of previous robots we've seen, is pretty original. It's actually hard to tell what stage of development Muon is in -- certainly many of the photos we have spied were concepts -- but we're going to keep our eyes peeled for him moving into the future. If you hit up the source link, you can check out a video of Muon's development. There's one more amazing shot after the break.

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Muon the humanoid robot is our ideal best friend originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 19 Jun 2010 16:59:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Suspended animation shocker: lack of oxygen could be the key to surviving a deep freeze originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 17 Jun 2010 19:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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If researchers at the University of Leeds, Durham University, and GlaxoSmithKline have their way, some drugs will be custom printed for you at the pharmacy in the near future. Prescription drugs are usually about 99.9 percent filler and 0.1 percent actual medication, so the new method they're working on would involve printing the active drug onto the surface of a pill in the pharmacy -- meaning that drugs could be customized for each person, and multiple drugs could potentially be included in one pill. The process currently only works with about one percent of prescriptions on the market, but they're moving toward expansion in the near future.

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If, like us, you've spent a fair amount of time in a kitchen cooking up a storm, then you're probably aware of one of the major drawbacks of major home-cooking... it generates a ton of waste. That's right -- up to 85 or 90 percent of a family's trash can be generated within the vicinity of the kitchen. Faltazi's concept kitchen should be interesting for just that reason -- Ekokook is designed to generate essentially zero waste. The solid waste -- things like glass -- are ground down using a hand-activated steel ball, and there's also a manual paper shredder which compacts the leftovers into small bricks. Water is stored, filtered, and reused, with waste water being used to water plants. Oh, and there's also an eco-friendly earthworm compactor in a drawer! Does it get any better? Well, there's a video after the break to check out.

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Ekokook concept kitchen's mantra: waste not, want not originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 02 Feb 2010 18:14:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Leave it to the military to dream big. In its recently released "Unmanned Aircraft Systems Flight Plan 2009-2047" report, the US Air Force details a drone that could fly over a target and then make the decision whether or not to launch an attack, all without human intervention. The Air Force says that increasingly, humans will monitor situations, rather than be deciders or participants, and that "advances in AI will enable systems to make combat decisions and act within legal and policy constraints without necessarily requiring human input." Programming of the drone will be based on "human intent," with real actual humans monitoring the execution, while retaining the authority and ability to override the system. It's all still extremely vague, with literally no details on exactly how this drone will come into existence, but we do know this: the Air Force plans to have these dudes operational by 2047. We're just holding out to see what those "classified" pages are all about. [Warning: read link is a PDF]

[Via PC World]
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