The TElepresence Robot Kit (TeRK) is part of the Toy Robots Initiative at Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute. They have a goal of lowering the barrier to entry for Robot designing and attracting more people into the technology fields of Computer Science and Engineering. The first [...]
We here at thebrig.org have decided to put our dedicated and very talented team of engineers, computer scientists, lawyers, and marketing experts to good use. The result of weeks of dedicated research and unethical experimentation on our gaming comrades is this first installment of thebrig.org’s Beneficial Development Series: Facial Fitness.
Note: that our development team lacks [...]
It would seem that the boys and girls at Mozilla are just as enthralled with the world cup as the rest of us. They’ve taken the care (with help from joga) of putting together a slick little extension for Firefox which will not only spiff up your Firefox with a nice World Cup Skin but [...]
Google’s latest web application has been released onto the public. In typical Google fashion this has been declared Beta, and will probably stay there for a while. However so far, it has proven to be a pretty solid extension to the Picasa picture management software.
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World Renowned Physicist, text-to-speech pioneer, and Star Trek:TNG Cameo Stephen Hawking today declared that the only way for the Human Race to ensure it’s survival was to recognize the absolute necessity for the colonization of space.
Speaking at a news conference in Hong Kong, Hawking Said, “Life on Earth is at the ever-increasing risk of being [...]
It’s official, the butterfly can sting back. Somehow, Microsoft Windows Server 2003 has beaten the long standing standard of uptime maintained by linux. In a head-to-head comparison performed by the Yankee group, Windows Server 2003 experienced 20% more annual uptime than the latest incarnation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Now if this sort of microsoft made [...]
Despite the dissappointing failure disappearance of the £35million ($62m) Beagle probe on Mars in late 2003, the British decided to up the ante and have once again taken the reins to another European space agency attempt to land a robotic probe on mars.Nicknamed Bridget, the £100 million Rover is part of the ESA’s [...]
It’s been a while, but here we are! We’re officially calling ourselves “Coming Soon”. The past couple of weeks have been somewhat overwhelming for all of us. Our team has been separated by an entire continent and our subsequent reorganization has been trying. But we’re here, we’re alive, and settling into newly redefined lives. [...]
