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View as a gridiRobot's New Ava 500 Puts Robotics In Heart Of The Enterprise
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Ava 500 (photo courtesy of iRobot) Today, iRobot Corporation (NASDAQ: IRBT) brought us a step closer to working alongside robots. Together with Cisco, they introduced the first autonomous telepresence robot, the Ava™ 500. The Ava 500 isn't another R2-D2-sized telepresence or novelty device you control with your iPad to make a video call. The Ava 500 is an autonomous, high-end audio, HD video, top-of-the-line telepresence robot designed to be your meeting surrogate in the enterprise. In the official announcement today, the two companies called the Ava 500 a self navigating, video collaboration robot with Cisco TelePresence EX60.
Finnish Scientists Discover Vaccine To Eliminate Allergies
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Let's start with some numbers. In the United States, 65 million people have some type of allergy. In Europe, that number goes up to 87 million. Fifty six percent are allergic to grasses in the US versus 52% in Europe. Cat allergies are 39% in the US and 30% in Europe and food allergies are 10% in the US and 11 % in Europe. The prevalence of allergic diseases global and growing. Recent trends indicate that half of all Europeans will suffer from allergy by 2015. Today, allergy treatment, which only suppresses the symptoms or lessens the inflammation, is via drugs, anti-histamines or steroids.
New Technique Creates First Plastic Solar Cell
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Georgia Tech's Bernard Kippelen and his team developed the first completely plastic solar cell. Courtesy: Virginie Drujon-Kippelen The growth of the solar industry has been limited by the supply of the polysilicon material used to make solar panels. In 2006, more than half of the world's supply of polysilicon was used for production of renewable electricity. In 2008, only twelve factories produced solar-grade polysilicon. In 2011, the industry produced an excess of polysilicon. And now, another shift - the creation of a plastic solar cell.
Zealous Plans To Save The Economy With Creativity
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Photography by Morgan White on Zealous In the last 50 years or so, our economy has evolved from an industrial to a financial. According to the founder of Zealous, Guy Armitage, we're beginning to see another shift - the downfall of the financial sector and rising from the ashes will be the creativity economy. A far cry from Jeremy Rifkin's Third Industrial Revolution manifesto, Armitage believes a shift is coming and it's centered around the creative industry. Thus Zealous was born. Creativity will ultimately save our economy - Guy Armitage, Founder, Zealous Zealous is a new start up out of the UK claiming to be the first social platform for creatives.
3D Printed Pottery From Your Mobile Phone
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Just when you think 3D printing couldn't get any cooler - 3D printing of shoes or food courtesy of Cornell University's Creative Machine Lab - or scary, via Wiki Weapon an open source project that's already raised $20,000 to create a downloadable open-source schematic users can follow to print their own weapons at home. (see A ndy Greenberg's article on Forbes.com) - a French company steps up the 3D printing game. France's Sculpteo recently teamed with Polish publishing company, Infinate Dreams (iOS and Android) to create a mobile app that lets you design and paint pottery on your smartphone or tablet, send it directly from your device to be 3D printed and then mailed to anyone you want, anywhere in the world.
The New French Entrepreneur: The Female Millenial
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In a country beseiged by economic woes and a well-known lack of infrastructure both politically and culturally to nurture a start-up culture, oddly, a feisty start up culture thrives.
French Internet pioneer, Loic Le Meur brought the tech world LeWeb in 2009 hoping to shine a spotlight on the start up world in France. He and his partner, Geraldine Le Meur, brought to town start ups from more than 80 countries to launch their start ups and rub elbows with the global technorati.
Get Ready to Doodle With The First 3D Drawing Pen
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The 3D Doodler pen from Wobbleworks, available on Kickstarter Remember Etch A Sketch? Created by a French inventor in the late 1950s in his basement, but sold through the Ohio Art Company, it kept thousand of kids and adults entertained for decades, event today. And now we take a giant step forward in the world of doodling - the first 3D drawing pen, the 3Doodler is here. Recently launched on Kickstarter by a new company out of Boston called Wobbleworks, the company hopes to raise $30,000 USD to get these pens into the market before Fall 2013.
Part 1: Future Of Robotics: Manufacturing Gets A Makeover With Baxter
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Baxter Let's start this series with something that illustrates a spectacular shift of automation in manufacturing, Let's look at a fire-engine red robot poised to transform how humans interact with, and work alongside robots. If you talk to Rodney Brooks, CEO, Rethink Robotics, he'll tell you that using a search engine is a different experience than talking to a person, but both experiences have their strengths and their place in our lives. "Over the next twenty years no one is going to mistake a robot for a person, but nevertheless, we will interact and collaborate with robots and they will become as common place in our lives as turning to a search engine is today," said Brooks.
Finding the Wine you Like Through Trust and an App
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Marco Molesini in the Piazza in Cortona, Italy Wine is a very personal thing. And in the world of wine, wine choices seem endless. In Italy alone, there are dozens of wine regions and classifications inside of each region. Most people keep drinking the wine they know, it's what they are comfortable with or it's the wine they had on a holiday that reminds them of those carefree days and nights away from home. Drinking wine usually boils down to fidelity - what you know and who sold it to you.
Finding the Wine you Like Through Trust and an App
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Marco Molesini in the Piazza in Cortona, Italy Wine is a very personal thing. And in the world of wine, wine choices seem endless. In Italy alone, there are dozens of wine regions and classifications inside of each region. Most people keep drinking the wine they know, it's what they are comfortable with or it's the wine they had on a holiday that reminds them of those carefree days and nights away from home. Drinking wine usually boils down to fidelity - what you know and who sold it to you.
Yota Devices Brings Us An Emotional Smartphone
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If you choose, the other side of the phone shows you how much battery you have left. Sure, you can look at the business side of bringing a new smartphone to market or which specs are needed to make sure it sells to the right demographics, but in the end, these little devices are machines in the palm of our hand designed to keep us connected to the world, are a bit soul-less. A company out of Russia, Yota Devices, known for making really fast, sleek modems, decided it was time to make a smartphone with a bit more emotion in it and wasn't going to be built on specs that ignored the always-on, mobile lifestyle that has become our every day lives.