Matt Jones » Technology http://mattjon.es Mon, 06 Sep 2010 08:03:49 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Arthur C. Clarke Predicts the Future http://mattjon.es/blog/2010/09/arthur-c-clarke-predicts-the-future/ http://mattjon.es/blog/2010/09/arthur-c-clarke-predicts-the-future/#comments Sun, 05 Sep 2010 09:31:52 +0000 Matt http://mattjon.es/?p=4374

]]> http://mattjon.es/blog/2010/09/arthur-c-clarke-predicts-the-future/feed/ 0 NASA Athelete Prototype Mars Rover http://mattjon.es/blog/2010/08/nasa-athelete-prototype-mars-rover/ http://mattjon.es/blog/2010/08/nasa-athelete-prototype-mars-rover/#comments Wed, 18 Aug 2010 09:37:04 +0000 Matt http://mattjon.es/?p=4175 This footage of NASA’s prototype Mars rover looks like something from a Ray Harryhausen film.

Update: I originally posted this on a computer without sound and was unaware of the annoying music. Apologies for that.

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It’s a small device that plugs into a dynamo hub (in my case a Schmidt SON) and converts the AC output to DC at adjustable voltages. It comes with a large number of cables, including a variety of standard USB plugs and DC charger plugs that allow you to power your phone or charge up a dSLR battery while on the move.

At £140, it’s not cheap. But then, being made in Germany, this is not a device made by under-paid, over-worked employees in a far-east electronics factory, and for the time saved while not hanging around wall sockets waiting for things to charge, it’s very much worth it.

I’ll write more about it once I’ve got it up and running!

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With the iPad, it’s like Jobs picked up a five year old magazine article about what Apple might have in store for the future, and based their new product on that. It’s even called iPad.

Many of us who are underwhelmed, however, may remember that the iPod was met with similar disappointment (and derision for its name) when it was first released.

Or maybe we’re all just Apple obssessed idiots.

]]> http://mattjon.es/blog/2010/01/ipud/feed/ 0 Analog http://mattjon.es/blog/2001/02/analog/ http://mattjon.es/blog/2001/02/analog/#comments Tue, 27 Feb 2001 17:45:00 +0000 Matt http://analog/analog Despite the falling price of decent digital cameras, analog photography on the web is still going strong. The sharpness and colour accuracy of transparency film is unbeatable [by current consumer digital cameras], especially if you take pictures with a medium format camera like Joshua Dunford [if you’re lucky, you can pick up a second-hand one of these pretty cheaply – my C330 was 75 Pounds Sterling]. This, coupled with the falling price of quality flatbed transparency scanners means that you can make images for the web which blow digital images away.

]]> http://mattjon.es/blog/2001/02/analog/feed/ 0 Biting the Apple http://mattjon.es/blog/2001/02/biting-the-apple/ http://mattjon.es/blog/2001/02/biting-the-apple/#comments Thu, 22 Feb 2001 13:47:00 +0000 Matt http://apple-and-osx/bitingtheapple Proof that all the folk at Apple are on something.

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]]> http://mattjon.es/blog/2001/01/playstation-box/feed/ 0 A.I. http://mattjon.es/blog/2001/01/ai/ http://mattjon.es/blog/2001/01/ai/#comments Fri, 26 Jan 2001 15:05:00 +0000 Matt http://film-and-video/ai More A.I. [The Movie] related stuff:
http://redrival.com/movieventure/santini.jpg
http://www.anghus.bizland.com/AI.htm

]]> http://mattjon.es/blog/2001/01/ai/feed/ 0 A.I Day http://mattjon.es/blog/2001/01/ai-day/ http://mattjon.es/blog/2001/01/ai-day/#comments Fri, 26 Jan 2001 14:21:00 +0000 Matt http://film-and-video/aiday OK… lets make it ‘official artificial intelligence day’ [all but one of the links have been shamelessly stolen from the site of Matthew Yee-King, so in return, I thought I’d plug his stuff on the Rephlex label]:

BBC News | SCI/TECH | Time for real intelligence

learning by imitation

HONDA “HUMAN” ROBOT movie

Neural Networks Source Code

MIT AI Lab: The Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at MIT

Robot Books.com – Robot Kits, Robotics, and Toy Robots

Robot Information Central

Shape Changing Robot Applications

Robot Battle

Internet Robotics Sources

Evolutionary Robotics Chapter 3

Kazuo HOSOKAWA

A Behavior-Based Multiple Robot System with Host for Object Manipulation

CSCI 599 - Mobile Robots and Multi-Robot Systems

Swarm Release

Multi-Agent Approaches in Robotics and Learning in Multi-Agent Systems

ICMAS 1995 Proceedings Contents

Mobile Robot Laboratory On-line Publications

Self-Organization in Large Populations of Mobile Robots: Review of Litterature

Linux AI & Alife Mini-Howto

Lynne Parker’s Publications List

Directory of /ai-publications/1000-1499/AITR-1465

Graduate students who is who in robotics

RoboCup Official Site

Beth and Alessio homepage

Meet AIBO

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