Friday, 25 May 2012

Roomba 780: A less than 10cm tall robot

The Roomba 780 is a robotic vacuum cleaner that’s less than 10cm tall.
The Roomba is a series of  autonomous robotic vacuum cleaners sold by iRobot. Under normal operating conditions, it is able to navigate a living space and common obstacles while vacuuming the floor. Several updates and new models have since been released that allow the Roombas to better negotiate obstacles and optimize cleaning.
The Roomba was introduced in 2002 As of February 2011, iRobot claims that over 6 million units have been sold.
The Roomba features a set of basic sensors that allow it to prevent itself from falling down stairs, change its direction when it bumps into an obstacle, and detect exceptionally dirty spots on the floor. It has two motorized wheels that can operate independently from each other. The Roomba uses the wheels to move forward and turn around its own axis to go in another direction.

Wednesday, 23 May 2012

Apple icar

An Apple board member has revealed that Steve Jobs had dreamed of creating an iCar before his  death.Italy based auto designer Liviu Tudoran has taken cues from the Apple products and designed a concept car called iMove for the year 2020.
His three-seater iMove plug-in electric concept car features loads of Apple-inspired gadgetry including a “photocromic” exterior that allows the driver to change the colour of the car, a touch-screen display that covers the entire dashboard (charged by solar receptors in the glass), and a convertible roof that can open up and has been designed to resemble the Apple mouse