Zenblaster's Rants of Silence

Rantings in the digital wind as your Grot Shop of the information age. "I didn't get where I am today without recognising a completely useless machine when I see one" - C.J.

Thursday, March 11, 2004

iStopMotion gets German localization, new features. Boinx Software's stop motion animation tool, iStopMotion, has been updated to version 1.3, adding German localization and a preference setting for turning the video upside down in order to support animation of small objects... [MacMinute]
6:50:31 PM

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Invasion of the robots. From medicine to military, machines finally arrive. [CNET News.com - Front Door]
8:49:19 AM

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Robot grunts tumble in race for $1m prize. Testing. Testing. [The Register]
8:48:04 AM

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Robotic Legs Could Produce Super Troops (AP). AP - Move over Bionic Man and make room for BLEEX [~] the Berkeley Lower Extremities Exoskeleton, with strap-on robotic legs designed to turn an ordinary human into a super strider. [Yahoo! News - Science]
8:45:38 AM

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Kiss My Apple

French group seeks royalties on iPod. The Society of Music Creators, Composers and Publishers, or Sacem, a French association representing recorded music rights holders, is threatening to take Apple to court in a dispute over unpaid music royalties... [MacMinute]
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Teams Await Final Trials for Robot Race (AP). AP - Twenty teams seeking a bid in a $1 million race of self-navigating robots across the Mojave Desert rushed to fix mechanical and software problems as they awaited the final trials. [Yahoo! News - Science]
8:37:24 AM

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Robots That Build (but Still Won't Do Windows) [New York Times: Technology]
8:17:04 AM

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Robot Racers Catch a Break. Robot vehicles were having a tough time completing the qualifying course for the Grand Challenge, so Darpa has rewritten the rules to let almost anyone compete. By Noah Shachtman. [Wired News]
8:11:45 AM

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Darpa Takes Battle to the Streets. The Pentagon's dream factory is always looking for new tech for the U.S. military, but the situation in Iraq has it pleading for urban-aware systems. Noah Shachtman reports from Anaheim, California. [Wired News]
8:02:53 AM

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New DARPA Grand Challenge live action website. Just launched: a website promising live virtual coverage of this weekend's Grand Challenge race, in which robotic vehicles will race accross the California desert.

Live Tracking will show relative positions of the Challenge entrants, and requires a 7 MB download each time you use your browser to view the tracking. The Status Board provides a 30 second update of the status of each Challenge team. The Image Gallery will contain the most recent images from the Challenge, updated nightly through March 14.

Link [Boing Boing Blog]
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