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- LROD system helps robots to discover objects for t...
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Designer offers instructions for DIY shipping pallet furniture
Italian designer Andrea Scandella has created a series of open source kit furniture made of pallets in use. With a passion for furniture design that incorporates environmental sustainability and the use of recycled materials, offers worthy Scandella free to the public. .. Continue reading Designer provides instructions tinkering with wood furniture
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around the house
- Tags:
- DIY, furniture, recycling
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I Won a $3K Gaming Rig from Maximum PC
five questions with the winner of our Maingear / AMD Gift
get a platform straight month free (with a i7-3770K processor, two Radeon HD 7970s in crossfire, and 8 GB of Corsair Dominator RAM in a stylish chassis Maingear Platinum F131) courtesy of AMD Maingear and on our Facebook page, and a gentleman named Sean enthusiastic Canadia Ratatouille was the lucky recipient of the award. We ask that you share with us, whether or not he thought he would win, which ran the old PC game, and that was out of the box for the first time. The Q & A is posted below!
1. How old are you, where you live and how long you have been a Maximum PC reader?
2. What are the specs of your current system?
PC that I had when I entered the contest were as follows:
processor - Intel Core i5-3570K
Motherboard - ASUS P8Z77-V RAM - 16 GB Mushkin Enhanced Redline Frostbyte
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Solar-powered skylight opens and closes by remote control
skylights are a good way to let natural light in your home, and if it is open, are also effective to let the hot, stale air that rises to the ceiling. Depending on the location, however, can be difficult to open without running the wiring for them. This is why solar Velux introduced its no wiring required Skylight Powered fresh air ... Continue reading Solar skylight opens and closes by remote control
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around the house
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- cooling, house, roof, solar, Sunlight
LROD system helps robots to discover objects for themselves
a key for robots is in the care of the elderly and help with daily tasks. This means that robots must adapt to the lifestyle of man and not vice versa, because grandma can not wait to program the robot or rearrange your home to accommodate the limitations of the machine. Robotic Life Object Discovery (LROD) The Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon University Project seeks to address in developing ways to use visual and non-visual data to help robots to identify and gather the objects so that they can work in a normal human environment without supervision. .. Continue reading LROD system using robots to discover objects themselves
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Robotics
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- Carnegie Mellon, research, robotics, robots
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Spherical "Ekinoids" to house future generations in off-grid towns
A spherical self-assembled house may seem like a simple idea, but the founders Project Ekinoid are extremely ambitious. It is estimated that the world population could reach 9 billion by 2050, and two house some two billion people, the project Ekinoid emerging cities outside the network composed entirely of pods spheroid accommodate 10,000 people, while in some places the land under Hospital ... Continue reading "Ekinoids" spherical to accommodate future generations in cities outside the network
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architecture
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- House, prefabricated house
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'World's fastest' home internet service hits Japan with Sony's help, 2 Gbps down
Google Fiber could be making waves with a speed of 1 Gbps, but no match for what is being hailed as an Internet service provided on the market in the world's fastest home Nuro. Sony launched in Japan last supported ISP So-net, linking data 2Gbps low fiber, and sends it to 1Gbps. An optical network unit (ONU) given to customers Nuro has three Gigabit Ethernet ports and is compatible with more than 450 Mbps 802.11 a / b / g / n. When connected to a two-year contract, users are delayed 4.980 yen ($ 51) per month and even a pony held 52.500 yen (about $
540
) setup fee, which is kept in abeyance for those who apply online. Those who are lucky enough to call home of the rising sun can save your home, apartment or small business for hot, as they are in Chiba, Gunma, Ibaraki, Tochigi, Tokyo, Kanagawa and Saitama. Click the source link for more details residents of the company.
Filed under: Internet, Sony
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