Shape-shifting robots take form

How would you like to have your very own shape-shifter? Perhaps a liquid metal T-1000 Terminator to help around the house. Or a universal tool kit that could reshape itself into any implement at the press of a button. For an astronaut in orbit, an army mechanic in remote terrain or even a homeowner trying to fix a furnace on a cold winter night, it could be just the thing.

Well, one day maybe. The traditional approach to building shape-shifting devices has been to use materials based on shape memory alloys, polymer sheets or nanoparticles. But these have proved difficult to control and have other limitations, so researchers have begun taking a different and less exotic tack.

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Michael Arrington giving up blogging ? Can't take the death threats !

At over $2,000 a day we couldn’t keep paying for security indefinitely. And the police were helpful but couldn’t do much based on the threats until he acted. We had the option of getting a restraining order but that just tells the person exactly where you are (the places they can’t go). So for a week I was literally in hiding with my parents at their home. The TechCrunch office was empty, and the police made regular checks to see if things were ok. One evening they almost arrested one of our employees who stopped by the office to pick up something.

Seeing my parents fear for their lives and not understand how or why their son was in this position changed me, made me a much less forgiving person in general.

I write about technology startups and news. In any sane world that shouldn’t make me someone who has to deal with death threats and being spat on. It shouldn’t require me to absorb more verbal abuse than a human being can realistically deal with.

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/28/some-things-need-to-change/

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TwitterCamp is a twitter air app for conferences to show back-channel tweets on big screens

TwitterCamp is a desktop application that allows you to monitor tweets from your friends using the popular Twitter service. The application was built for the ApolloCamp mini-conference and uses the Adobe AIR runtime and Twitter Search API. The application is especially suited for running on large displays such as plasmas, LCDs, and projectors at conferences. It is simple to customize the interface so that you can use the application for your conference.

http://www.danieldura.com/code/twittercamp

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Members of the US Congress have slowly increased their use of twitter

According to the website TweetCongress.org, which tracks lawmakers’ Twitter feeds, 29 Republican members are on Twitter, compared to 16 Democrats and one Independent: Sen. Joe Lieberman of Connecticut.

http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/republicans-all-a-twitter-over-the-visit-2009-01-27.html

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Sparsh: Multitouch FTIR Display Table Project From India

Sparsh Multitouch Display from anirudh on Vimeo.

http://www.sparsh-i.com/


http://www.cs.nyu.edu/~jhan/ftirtouch/

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Creature Keeper is Spore for kids

The new game, which will allow multiple children to play together in a very Spore-like universe, will be called Creature Keeper, said Lucy Bradshaw, the general manager of EA's Emeryville, Calif.-based Maxis studio, which created Spore.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-10797_3-10147827-235.html

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Jolicloud: Linux Operating System Optimised For Tablet Netbooks

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/22/new-screenshot-of-jolicloud-netbook-operating-system/

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President Obama's New Blackberry

http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/01/16/obama-to-keep-his-blackberry/

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iPod touch: the hot accessory for your sniper rifle

http://www.tuaw.com/2009/01/21/ipod-touch-the-hot-accessory-for-your-sniper-rifle/

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Behind the Scenes of TWiT with Leo Laporte and Cali Lewis

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Linden Lab acquires Xtreet and OnRez, brokers of virtual goods for Second Life

For a 5% sales commission, the sites serve up an Amazon.com-like one-stop shopping experience for Second Life goods. What kind of goods? How about your very own President Obama avatar (pictured above) for about $7.50?

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2009/01/second-life-xtr.html

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Whosegame contest on Serious Games

Participate and win up to 5000€ !

Participation is open until March the 31st 2009 !

You must submit your game in english but you can also choose to translate it in any other Whosegame language !

Then your games will be displayed on Whosegame and evaluated by a jury and Whosegame members.

http://www.whosegame.com/contestcard.php?contest=51

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