Weekend Fun: The Ghettoblaster Hall of Fame

A website has been established to celebrate “the greatest and most innovative portable stereos of all time, a Ghettoblaster Hall of Fame.” The models displayed in the Ghettoblaster Hall of Fame are the “hallmarks of quality and innovation in the portable stereo world.” Ah, well, they say it best… “You will not find anything comparable in today’s price-conscious and disposable marketplace, they...

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Weekend Fun: Keepon Truckin’

Marek Michalowski of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA, US, and Hideki Kozima of the National Institute of Communications Technology (NICT) in Kyoto, Japan, programmed the spongey, yellow snowman-like robot, dubbed “Keepon,” to detect the down beat in a song and boogie along in perfect time. Inside Keepon are motors, wires and a mechanical device called a gimbal that manipulate’s the cuddly fella like a...

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