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Maglev joystick developed at Carnegie Mellon

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2008-03-06 15:41:14 by Doug Aamoth in CrunchGear
...Carnegie Mellon University and uses a bowl-shaped apparatus connected to a joystick, all of which sits inside a larger bowl-shaped apparatus that magnetically levitates the smaller bowl There are only ten such devices in the world so far but the projects been spun off into a commercial company called Butterfly Haptics ( web site here ) and...
 
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Dr. Randy Pausch, Carnegie Mellon CS professor, dead at 47

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2008-07-25 17:25:58 by John Biggs in CrunchGear
...Carnegie Mellon University and worked on the Alice program, an animated educational system for high school and college students Its not difficult to find educators in CS who are as personable as Dr. Pausch was but it is definitely rare to find one filled with such kindness and love for life But we dont beat the Reaper by living longer. We...
 
Tags: pausch, carnegie mellon university, entertainment technology center, college students, wife, pancreatic cancer, educational system, reaper, alice program
 
 
 
 
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Video: Carnegie Mellon's Maglev Haptic VR Interface

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2008-03-05 17:33:56 by Joel Johnson in Boing Boing Gadgets
 
...Carnegie Mellon which uses a pair of wildly expensive donut-shaped electromagnets to produce physical feedback and texture with a fidelity of up to 2 microns. On the texture board's hard surface, the haptic feedback was so sharp and resolute that the metal grip clanged against it, much as it might on a solid surface. On the board's virtual...
 
Tags: carnegie mellon, texture board, board, texture, produce physical feedback, virtual vinyl record, solid surface, nintendo wii, hands-on
 
 
 
 
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The Carnegie Mellon-UC Berkeley Mobile Future Conference: What's Going to Happen in the Cloud?

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2008-04-22 14:13:30 by Jose Fermoso in Gadget Lab
...Carnegie Mellon and UC Berkeley today, the industry insider predicted that the more ubiquitious mobile cell phones become and the more we start to rely on them, the more wireless networks will need to grow to take on the demand But while cloud capacity will revolutionize community applications, providing more info that will be usable, it's...
 
Tags: cloud, total information, information, data networks, networks, cloud capacity, web, deep web, wireless networks
 
 
 
 
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Carnegie Mellon brings adhesive arms to the burgeoning pillbot scene

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2008-08-06 16:32:00 by Paul Miller in Engadget
...Carnegie Mellon University isn't messing around with this stuff. The nerds over there have built a remote controlled pillbot with small, adhesive arms that allow it to grip onto internal surfaces. That is to say, your internal surfaces. The pill can view damaged areas, deliver drugs and might eventually be outfitted with a small laser for...
 
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Carnegie Mellon brings adhesive arms to the burgeoning pillbot scene

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2008-08-06 21:32:00 by Paul Miller in Robotic-Lab.COM
...Carnegie Mellon University isn't messing around with this stuff. The nerds over there have built a remote controlled pillbot with small, adhesive arms that allow it to grip onto internal surfaces. That is to say, your internal surfaces. The pill can view damaged areas, deliver drugs and might eventually be outfitted with a small laser for...
 
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25 Years of Strange and Wonderful Carnegie Mellon Field Robots [Photos]

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2008-10-31 09:20:00 by Mark 'The Great Pumpkinizer' Wilson in Gizmodo
...Carnegie Mellon is hosting an excellent gallery documenting 25 years of their Field Robotics Center robots. This guy, called the "Terragator," was built in 1984 to navigate roads and map mines. And if you like him, there are plenty of others on CM's site, each packing a palatable one-sentence description. So hit up the link for more robot...
 
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GigaPan 'The GigaPan process allows users to upload, share, and explore brilliant gigapixel+ panoramas from around the globe'

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2008-08-11 16:01:00 by bookofjoe in bookofjoe
...Carnegie Mellon University attaches snugly to almost any digital camera, tilting and panning it to fashion highly detailed panoramic vistas Here's the Times piece. Sweeping Panoramas, Courtesy of a Robot Robots already cut the grass and vacuum rugs. Now they are helping with a more artistic job: creating vast photographic panoramas with...
 
Tags: gigapan, gigapan robot, camera mount, camera, images, artistic images, panoramas, standard digital camera, schotts gigapan images
 
 
 
 
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Hands-On With Maglev Haptic Control Technology

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2008-03-04 10:59:18 by Rob Beschizza in Gadget Lab
...Carnegie Mellon University get to grips with a maglev haptic control system that offers control to a precision of 2 microns and offers up to 40 newtons of force feedback Today I touched the bunny Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute is using magnetic levitation to provide what it claims is the most realistic sense of touch yet seen...
 
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