Last week we talked about a Singapore research team for making a robot that is supposed to “love” its user like a person does. Today, let’s look at PARO, a marvelous robot from Japan designed to look and act like a baby harp seal and give the user a simulation of interaction with a pet.
Funny Or Die has scooped the major networks with a new call for relief for those so unjustly affected by the Netflix price increase. Jason Alexander lends his voice to this important cause. People just like me would really appreciate your financial assistance right now. I’ll have to spend an extra five dollars a month […]
Photo blog/community art project Dear Photograph just opened two months ago, and already it’s taken the internet by storm. With a mix of past and present evoking memory for the individual and a surprisingly universal longing for days gone by, it also gives us a chance to study the different technology used by submitters.
Have researchers at the National University of Singapore designed a robot that knows how to love? According to project lead Hooman Samani, they’ve made significant progress. Lovotics, the robot that loves you back, observes user behavior through motion sensors and cameras, then mirrors that behavior. Get closer to Lovotics, and it moves closer to you. […]
Last week, Facebook decided to tweak the site again, this time altering the chat sidebar to show only the people users primarily interact with, whether they’re available to chat or not. Fortunately for us, Israeli web dev Tal Alter has already figured out a fix!
In the wake of Netflix’s major price increase announced last week, Blockbuster has announced a special promotion for Netflix customers. I had expected Blockbuster to make a pitch for their program; it would be a bit bizarre if they didn’t. What I didn’t expect is for their deal to be so much worse than the […]
Time for Olde Tyme Techcitement, when we take a look back at technology relics. It’s basically your grampa talking about the good old days, but sooner and totally more reasonable than dumb boring stories about how all this used to be farmland. November 20, 2000. We were still reeling from the devastation of Y2K, Creed’s […]
Netflix also announced it is separating its unlimited streaming and unlimited DVD plans in the U.S. to better reflect the costs of each and to give members a choice: a streaming-only plan, a DVD-only plan or the option to subscribe to both.
Amidst all the well-deserved hullabaloo over last week’s big Google+ release (Who isn’t salivating?), Google began making some tweaks to their mobile web user interface (UI). It seems that Google didn’t make any announcement about the upgrade, instead leaving users to find the changes on their own. Well, the heck with that. Here at Techcitement, […]
A Facebook friend posted this on his wall yesterday, and at first I didn’t believe it. Apple is refusing to fix smokers’ computers. Seriously. Something I just learned: Apple will refuse to repair your Mac if anybody in your home or office has smoked in its presence. When asked for details about his house guest’s […]
