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Archive for November, 2009

LTE: Manuvering for Time Division Spectrum

Posted by Sam Churchill on November 23rd, 2009

3G Americas, a wireless industry trade association representing the GSM family of technologies including LTE, has published an educational white paper titled, 3GPP LTE for TDD Spectrum in the Americas (pdf). The report recommends Time Division Duplex (TDD) technology with LTE as a mobile broadband solution to utilize valuable TDD spectrum assets in the region [...]

iPhone Wheelchair Controller

Posted by Sam Churchill on November 21st, 2009

Electric wheelchairs can now be controlled by an iPhone app from Dynamic Controls. A user’s iPhone or iPod touch connects to the wheelchair system via Bluetooth to display chair information in real time as well as speed in kph or mph and compass heading. Connectivity features include displaying the status of wheelchair, through to computer [...]

Modern Warfare 2 Breaks Sales Record

Posted by Sam Churchill on November 21st, 2009

Modern Warfare 2 made $550 million in sales in the first five days of its release, breaking all previous first-to-five day entertainment industry box office records, according to developer Activision. Activision compared their revenue figures with other entertainment record-breakers (books, movies, video games): The (previous) largest five-day worldwide video game sales record: Grand Theft Auto [...]

Robot Crosses Atlantic – Underwater

Posted by Sam Churchill on November 20th, 2009

“Dead Zones” are growing off the West Coast and elsewhere, affecting fisheries and the ecosystem. Dead zones are areas in the ocean that have become so oxygen-starved that most marine animals flee the area or die (webcast). These low oxygen conditions, commonly called hypoxia, had never been seen in Oregon prior to 2002, but have [...]

Robot Christmas Dance

Posted by Sam Churchill on November 20th, 2009

RoboBuilder has a Christmas Special Dance Performance. You can download fancy robotic motion files from Internet and play with their three Standard Robot Platforms; HUNO, DINO, and DOGY. The Creator 5710K robotic kit ($680) has features not found on other kits such as; Precise PID Motion Control, Distance Detection, Sound Detection and Speaker System, IR [...]

Smartphone News Formats Enhanced

Posted by Sam Churchill on November 20th, 2009

Techmeme has optimized their news with Techmeme Mobile for popular smartphones and Google has announced new mobile news features as well. Techmeme Mobile loads much faster on phones thanks to a sparser page format. Techmeme Mobile is available for all browsers at http://techmeme.com/m, but simply browsing http://techmeme.com will redirect there depending on your mobile device. [...]