A professor and his graduate students at Stanford have invented an artificial intelligence system that enables robotic helicopters to LEARN SOPHISTICATED NEW FLYING TRICKS BY WATCHING OTHER HELICOPTERS controlled by humans. considering of that learn-by-watching system, the Stanford copters can perfo…

Don’t look now, but the microblogging site Twitter is going mainstream as you read that. The hurricane Gustav — with its urgent need of instant, broad-based info — has proved something of a “perfect storm” for Twitter. Tune in to CNN, and it’s likely they’ll be showing you a Twitter feed. Gustav i…

Dubai plans to move all taxis, government vehicls, police cars and ambulances to gas-electric HYBRIDS BY 2012.Original post by Mike

Microsoft placed a job posting for a Senior Product Manager for an upcoming service called “SKYMARKET” — apparently a Microsoft Windows Mobile version of Apple’s iPhone App Store.Original post by Mike

Most busy professionals lack three vital things: 1) duration; 2) learning; and 3) exercise. considering we don’t have adequate of the first thing, we put off the second and third things for another day — a day that never comes. The aftereffect is that we’re less educated and less healthy than we wa…

I told you August 20 and 27 about the growing fame of the “iPhone Factory Girl.” A British iPhone buyer discovered several pictures on her brand-new iPhone. The photos were snapped inside the Chinese factory, and feature a smiling poser. The girl in the shots became a minor World Wide Web sensation …

A concept phone called the Ply, designed by KDDI Designing Studio, does a lot more than real phones do. It’s a projector. It’s a scanner. It’s a game console. It’s an iPhone like full-screen touch phone. It plus has real buttons. It’s EVERYTHING except real.Original post by Mike