The Curious Technologist

The Curious Technologist: general technology specialist at your service.

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This Could Be The Sexiest Speaker Ever Designed

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Abandoned Concrete Mansion - Northern Minnesota [5184 x 3456] [OC]

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ma maison ~ bunq architectes | photos © david gagnebin de bons

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Computers? Pah. These designers craft beautiful infographics by hand.

Computers? Pah. These designers craft beautiful infographics by hand.

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Step Into ‘The Void,’ a Physical Playground for VR

A real-world gaming experience created for the headset crowd.

This Utah startup is combining the live-action of paintball with the endless possibilities of VR.

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Almost like the VISOR in 'Star Trek,' the eSight 3 lets low vision wearers do almost anything, from reading a menu to playing basketball.

Incredible. We’re big fans of augmentation that helps the disabled - this is where tech can really make a difference.

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A South Korean robotics company just built a real Gundam

It makes the Caterpillar P-5000 Work Loader look like a child's toy.

It stands 13-feet tall, weighs 1.3 tons and wields a pair of 286-pound, motion-tracking metal arms. "Our robot is the world's first manned bipedal robot and is built to work in extreme hazardous areas where humans cannot go (unprotected)," company chairman, Yang Jin-Ho, said in a prepared statement. The company has spent upwards of $200 million since 2014 to develop the mech with the help of Hollywood SFX designer, Vitaly Bulgarov, whose credits include Transformers, Robocop and Terminator.

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Raspberry Pi gets a 5-inch HDMI touch screen

A 5-inch HDMI touchscreen display for use with Raspberry Pi is available from Winstar.

With a resolution of 800 x 480 the display is available with resistive and capacitive touch options.

It comes with a control board with HDMI interface and a 40 pin connector for connecting to a Raspberry Pi.

http://www.electronicsweekly.com/news/raspberry-pi-gets-5-inch-hdmi-touch-screen-2016-12/

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How to Convert Old Film Reels With a Raspberry Pi

A projector with a Pi-controlled motor and camera can capture frame-by-frame transfers

Joe Herman describes his experience hanging on to family memories with the help of an RPI.

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Armada Cloud - Cloud Backup and Disaster Recovery

Cloud backup and disaster recovery for enterprise - comprehensive data protection for all applications, endpoints, and servers from a single interface.

It can be challenging to find or build a single solution to protect virtual environments, physical servers, user endpoints, and cloud applications while staying within budget, meeting RTOs and RPOs, and not exceeding your IT team's knowledge and time limitations. As a result, many organizations rely on a piecemeal solution incorporating several disparate backup and recovery systems or exasperate an already stretched technology team by reinventing the wheel with an inhouse solution. Armada Cloud's Data Protection and Disaster Recovery Platform is designed to resolve these issues with a simple model: a turnkey onsite data protection appliance, backed by our proven platform, providing comprehensive protection through a single dashboard for a single monthly or annual fee. Simple, secure peace of mind. Cloud backup for enterprise is more than a software download - Armada Cloud is your data protection partner.

www.armadacloud.com - Take a look and protect your data by implementing a cloud backup solution today. 

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Futuristic floating home lets you go eco-friendly on the water

These tiny houses are made of recycled aluminum and powered by rooftop photovoltaic systems. Natural ventilation makes the house have low energy demands, and 98 percent of the home’s materials are recyclable! 

VIA CURBED

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Schaft’s new bipedal robot [ ▲ ]

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The C-Thru Smoke Diving Helmet, a conceptual design by Omer Haciomeroglu.  Designed for the increase and aid of a firefighter’s visibility and mobility in dense smoke. 

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First Look at Nintendo Switch

Oh I’m a fan of this...

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MIT GAME ASKS WHO DRIVERLESS CARS SHOULD KILL

NO BRAKES ON THE MORAL QUANDARY TRAIN

A Moral Quandary For A Self-Driving Car

Should the self driving car with broken brakes stay the course and hit the jaywalking girl, female athlete or female executive–or should it swerve and hit the people legally crossing the street: a boy, male athlete, male executive or elderly man?

When a robot has to kill, who should it kill? Driverless cars, the future, people-carrying robots that promise great advances in automobile safety, will sometimes fail. Those failures will, hopefully, be less common than the deaths and injuries that come with human error, but it means the computers and algorithms driving a car may have to make very human choices when, say, the brakes give out: should the car crash into five pedestrians, or instead adjust course to hit a cement barricade, killing the car’s sole occupant instead?

That’s the premise behind “Moral Machine,” a creation of Scalable Corporation for MIT Media Lab. People who participate are asked 13 questions, all with just two options. In every scenario, a self-driving car with sudden brake failure has to make a choice: continue ahead, running into whatever is in front, or swerve out of the way, hitting whatever is in the other lane. These are all variations on philosophy’s “Trolley Problem,” first formulated in the late 1960s and named a little bit later. The question: “is it more just to pull a lever, sending a trolley down a different track to kill one person, or to leave the trolley on its course, where it will kill five?” is an inherently moral problem, and slight variations can change greatly how people choose to answer.

Source: http://www.popsci.com/mit-game-asks-who-driverless-cars-should-kill

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“Being Human” or: A Thing About Wheelchairs, Robots, and Evolution