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November 2009

Zink: Inkless Printing With Colorless Color

New inkless printing technology has risen from Polaroid's ashes

November 2009

Adoptive Berliner Puts Sound in Motion

Where others see plain surfaces and objects, the Israeli musician and self-styled engineer Omer Yosha sees interfaces

October 2009

TI vs. the Calculator Hackers

After hobbyist cracks key to operating system, TI says: Cease and desist!

October 2009

TVs of the (Near) Future

CEATEC, the Japanese consumer-electronics show, tries to brighten the economic gloom with some big, smart 3-D TVs

October 2009

Nobel Goes to Boyle and Smith for CCD

IEEE Fellows Willard Boyle and George Smith recognized for starting the digital-imaging revolution

Forward model for sonar maps produced with the Polaroid ranging …

Conventional Polaroid time-of-flight (TOF) sonars provide object range measurements, but their wide beam widths limit the object bearing accuracy. We …

Object classification for robot manipulation tasks based on learning of …

We describe an object recognition technique based upon the extraction of simple features from the initial part of ultrasonic echoes. …

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Unmanned Robotic Systems

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PGI x64+GPU Fortran & C99 Compilers

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David Kushner and Harry Teasley track the latest trends in gaming

Audio/Video

Wed, November 18, 2009

Blog Post: California Sets Energy Standards for Televisions

Tue, November 03, 2009

Video: Capturing Sound with Smoke and Lasers

Article: It's the Stupidity, Stupid

Gadgets

Wed, November 18, 2009

Slideshow: iCandy: November 2009

Article: Push-Button Books

Article: Adoptive Berliner Puts Sound in Motion

Gaming

Fri, November 20, 2009

Blog Post: The UK Wants a Few Good Gamers

Wed, November 18, 2009

Blog Post: The Xbox Red Ring of Death

Fri, November 13, 2009

Blog Post: Gamers' Jesse James

Portable Devices

Article: Long Live Analog TV—on Cellphones

Tue, October 13, 2009

Blog Post: Sabotage, or Merely the Worst Datacenter Incompetence in History? You Decide.

Mon, September 14, 2009

Blog Post: Momentum to Ban Texting While Driving in US Builds

Standards

Wed, November 18, 2009

Blog Post: California Sets Energy Standards for Televisions

Mon, September 21, 2009

Blog Post: FCC to Tackle Internet Rules

Mon, September 14, 2009

Blog Post: IEEE Standards Board Member to Rejoin Iggy Pop and The Stooges

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