Competetive robots are a big thing these days and nowhere is that more evident than at Robogames in San Francisco. Robogames is an annual event that attracts robot makers and enthusiasts from all over the world who compete for bragging rights. Simone Davalos, co-founder and organizer of Robogames, gives ...

This week we’re doing a couple special LunchMeet shows from the Maker Faire in San Mateo, Calif. The Maker Faire is an annual gathering of inventors, makers, crafters and geeks who come together to showcase their projects. For today’s show, I talk with Cris Benton, maker of aerial ...

For this edition of LunchMeet, Eddie Codel finds himself in Vienna, Austria for Roboexotica, the festival for cocktail robots. Eddie speaks with Johannes Grenzfurthner of monochrom, one of the organizers of Roboexotica, and finds out why cocktail robots are important to man’s survival. Johannes takes us on a ...

SAN FRANCISCO, December 12, 2006 (PodTech News) — In the news today, Nintendo’s Wii surprises the world with its first lawsuit — it’s not an injury! In Vienna, Mozart’s works have been brought into the digital age, and they’re now living online, absolutely free. Also, a glimpse at memory after ...

The Nintendo Wii has been proving to be physically demanding for many users. Soreness and pain are two of the system’s reported side effects. The official response so far: get in shape — then you won’t be sore. Also, a few rumors about Apple — one, involving the long-anticipated tablet ...

CTO Justin Rattner opened Research@Intel Day with an informal talk from stage about the various ideas being hatched at the chip company. Some sound ready to go–like a new technology to help save significant amounts of energy by refreshing static screens from a separate chip–and others are weirdly but satisfyingly ...