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NEWS Flexible Paper Speakers on the Way Taiwanese research institute set on commercializing the technology, likely in car-audio systems first Photo: Industrial Technology Research Institute BY Yu-Tzu Chiu // September 2009 ...

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DEPARTMENTS DIY Street-View Camera Create Google Street View-like panoramas with cheap webcams and open-source software Photo: Roy D. Ragsdale OFF THE GRID: A do-it-yourself camera array lets you create your own street views of places where Google's cameras don't go. BY Roy D. Ragsdale // October 2009...

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Video: UCSD Robots Climb Stairs, Hop Like Pogo Stick POSTED BY: Erico Guizzo // Thu, October 08, 2009 The robots developed by Thomas Bewley and his team at the Coordinated Robotics Lab at the University of Califonia, San Diego, may look rather simple at first. But it turns out these 'bots are capable of impressive acrobatic maneuvers. The Switchblade rover can balance on the tip of its treads and climb stairs by flipping itself end-over-end. iHop balances itself by using its wheels as gyros and it can hop on its pogo-stick of a leg. Check out the video below by Spectrum's Josh Romero, showing how the UCSD engineers are giving their robots new ways to move. Previously: Boston Dynamics...

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