Google TV Remote iPhone App Hits iTunes Store-eWeek

Google reminded the public that its Web-meets-television service is still around by releasing a version of its Google TV Remote application for the Apple iPhone 18 March.

Launched in October on Logitech's Revue companion boxes and Sony Internet tv and Blu-ray players, Google TV is an Android-based software service, users can switch between their tv content and Web applications such as Netflix and Amazon Video on Demand.

The service was virtually proclaimed animals, unfinished or even flawed by many reviewers. Google made some improvements in December to enhance the user experience, the release of Google TV Remote app connects Google TV through a user's WiFi network.

Remote App mimics Logitech built Google TV keyboard controller, letting users change channels, adjust volume access DVR content.

It is, however, a better, letting users search for shows and movies by speaking into the handset, from anywhere in their house. Google launched originally only this app Android phone users omit the Apple mobile device users who also use Google TV.

Google published finally Remote App for the iPhone to Apple's iTunes App Store that users can download free of charge in order to manage their Google TV content consumption from their iPhones, iPads, and iPod touch devices running iOS 3 or higher.

Google offered a warning to the app; remote iOS reason will not allow Google TV users to share Web pages from their phone to their tv screens. This is a smart feature Android phone owners can use to "throw" YouTube videos from their handsets to see on the big screen in the home.

Google Remote App for iPhone is just the latest of several free, native apps Google has designed for the iPhone since Apple relaxed up its developer terms of Service. Automatically joins Google Voice, Google goggles, Google Latitude, Google places, among others.

It is unclear how many iPhone or iPad owners use Google TV instead of Apple TV, much cheaper, but less functional Web TV product. There would certainly have an influence on how many people download the free Remote App to iOS devices.

 

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FIRST robotics competition finale today-Journal and Courier

Rock and roll music, flashing lights and roaring crowd disappears when Ben Carson is controlling the robot.

"Everyone can be your name screaming and shouting, and you don't hear a thing," said the West Lafayette High School sophomore. "You just focus on the robot move."

The bot Carson and junior classmate Henry Williams control is part of the first game of this year--an acronym for "for inspiration and recognition of science and technology." Although it is a national organization dedicated to inspiring in students an appreciation for science and technology, take the events on a laboratory-meets-circus-sphere.

Westside boiler invasion is one of the 42 teams of usually Midwestern schools--including teams from Lafayette Jefferson and Harrison high schools in Tippecanoe County--in the Purdue Boilermaker regional University today. They compete for a chance to go to the national competition in St. Louis next month.

Each team works from a standard set of components to build a robot designed to solve a common problem, which changes every year. Students work side-by-side with teachers, parents, technicians and other professionals.

West side of the robot is built with four Mecanum wheels. That can move left to right without twisting.

It is also programmed with sensors and encoders to control on the playing field within the Purdue Armory.

This year the game is called "LOGO Motion" and robots have to place triangle, circle and square-shaped inner tubes on racks to score points. These three shapes constitute the first logo.

There is a twist to this years game. For the first time, allowed the teams build smaller robots designed to climb a pole at the end of the contest for extra points.

Williams, who controls the robot gripper and arm, said that his team is out today first take place.

"We came in second in 2009, ' 08 and ' 07," he said. "We want to win this year."

But the focus at first is not all about robots. In addition to the technical aspect, each team also builds a website and operates on a community outreach project.

"It's like being thrown in the corporate world," said junior Justin Baer of precision Guessworks, the Lafayette Jeff team. "You learn to take leadership roles, working with different personalities and talk with the community."

As part of their community outreach, Jeff students are collecting money for the Red Cross for victims of the disaster in Japan to help.

Sophomore Megan Huan said the experience has her eyes open for engineering and the skills needed for college. The team Jeff has already invited the national competition.

"It's a blast to be a part of," said Huan, a member of the first year. "If we're going to St. Louis, we're going to show our best efforts."

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TeleNav Navigation App comes to Android free-Hot Hardware

This is an interesting proposal, especially when you consider the mobile platform. Google's Android OS ships with Google Maps Navigation, which is widely seen as the best mobile GPS app exists, has some more competition. MapQuest recently came to Android, and this week a new TeleNav app participation in the group. It is called Navigation by TeleNav, and it is completely free.
App provides users with turn-by-turn 3D navigation, driving directions, spoke of a man, a proposed "best route," custom settings, such as "no tolls" and a database of more than 22 million businesses to use when you're looking for something special in the vicinity. There is also an option for premium to $ 19.99 (for a limited period of time), there is detailed, just below the video.

By TeleNav Navigation App available for free on Verizon Android phones

So … What is included in Navigation by TeleNav to Verizon Android phones?

Well, if you download the Navigation by TeleNav in Android market, you have access to plenty of features:

* Turn-by-turn 3D navigation with spoken driving directions – of a person, not a robot
* Choose the best route for you using multiple proposals, route, suggesting up to 3 different routes to their destination
* Customize your route to avoid toll roads or traffic jams
* Lost or need to find a specific type of place near you? You can use Navigation by TeleNav to a local search a database of 22 million local shops, restaurants, landmarks, and more

If you are interested in to upgrade your navigation experience, we have an opportunity for you. Until 31st March 2011, you can download the TeleNav GPS Navigator – premium to your phone Verizon Android 50% discount on regular price ($ 19.99). Included in the premium version, you have access to these features:

* Avoid traffic and accidents with proactive traffic alerts and rerouting so you arrive to your destination quickly
* View the posted speed limits of the road you are driving on the right and receive a message if you exceed the
* Red light camera Alerts gives you a warning on the street intersections to secure braking
* Speed trap alerts will help you avoid unwanted tickets and traps
* Lane assist helps take the confusion out of what lane in the preparation of the next maneuver on your route
* Pendle alerts that notify you about your cycling with traffic information for your daily drive
* Searching for a place to eat? View in-depth business profiles with ratings, quotes, and opening hours

And remember – if you want to download the TeleNav GPS Navigator – Premium, which gives you just about two weeks to get it for half price.

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Industrial dexterous Robot Gripper launched on automate 2011-Robotics Online (press release)

Robotiq Gripper company

Recent years challenging for the North American manufacturing industry and momentum is picking up back. It is still fresh in their minds, manufacturers more aware than ever that they need to reduce costs while also increasing the flexibility of their processes more quickly respond to changes in the market. It is in this context that Robotiq the adaptive gripper automate 2011 launches.  The Gripper world's first industrial generating dexterous grab that industrial robots "hand-like" possibilities for their ability to a wider range of items to manipulate, explore a grip and press a particular part.

"Applications with a very large number of different parts are challenging to automate as contemporary current one hand/one tool approach. Tooling is complicated, and grabs change cycle time increases and decreases the Return on Investment. As such, many of these applications are still running with human operators. ", explains Erik Nieves, Director of technology for Motoman Robotics. MOTOMAN is a Robotiq partner who will distribute the Adaptive Gripper.

"Everyone has seen humanoid robots with human-like hands in the media. There are a lot of these hands out there, but most of them have limited to market research. Even if their flexibility is interesting, they are often too complex and fragile that makes them impossible to use in an industrial environment. "declares Robotiq the CEO Samuel Bouchard. The adaptive gripper of Robotiq is the first dexterous gripper that is robust and simple enough to grab required flexibility to the current production settings. The Gripper is focused on applications that have a very high share treatment of diversity and complexity of parts geometry. Examples of applications are: meeting transfer, parts, machine tending or share positioning in welding.

The technology is in development and testing for the past two years. It will be officially launched on the automate 2011 show held in Chicago from March 21 and 24, which it will be displayed on different partner of robots.

About Robotiq
Robotiq is a manufacturer of robot parts in Quebec City, Canada. It is a privately funded company founded in 2008.

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Sprint CTIA 2011 announcement plans and details revealed-phones Review

CTIA 2011, it is not far from, and it appears that some of the messages, Sprint had planned to do at CTIA was found before the event, probably to the chagrin of Sprint, of course, so let us find out which devices have been revealed.

According to an article over in report Boy Genius has their sources revealed that Sprint will announce the HTC EVO, HTC EVO smartphone 3D view 4 G and Android 3.0 Honeycomb Motorola Xoom, as we have previously heard about.

Together with the revealed messages come some juicy specs on the said devices … the HTC EVO 3D will sport a 4.3-inch 3D monitor, qHD Autosterioscopic 1.2 GHz processor, gen two rear facing 5 megapixel cameras, the 1.3 megapixel front facing camera, dedicated camera button, 1080p and 720 p video output, Android 2.3 Gingerbread US, 4 GB RAM, 1 GB ROM, (though apparently them could return) and blockbuster 3D on demand, and YouTube 3D apps.

Next view HTC EVO 4 G smartphone will sport a 7-inch capacitive touch screen, aluminum unibody, 5 megapixel rear camera, 1.3 megapixel front facing camera, DNLA, HDMI out, HTC sense UI, HTC Scribe with pen support optional, and will run Android 2.3 Honey cakes.

Motorola Xoom to Sprint Android 3.0 Honeycomb unit will be the same as Verizon version and will support WiMAX, as we have previously heard. Other devices apparently commitment, Sprint includes a WiMAX and WiFi version of RIM BlackBerry scenario and Samsung showcase 3, which apparently is a 3 G messaging handsets.

So it exists, do you believe that Sprint will have something left to announce at CTIA 2011? Maybe they managed to keep something under wraps for the incident, guess we'll have to wait and see.

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Site-loading speed battle 2: Motorola Xoom vs. Apple iPad 2-CNET

A few weeks back we convert the original iPad against the Xoom in a site-loading speed battle. While most of the feedback was positive, a few commenters expressed their disappointment that we are the original iPad instead of the iPad 2. Well, now that the iPad 2 is released, we cannot in fact the story that you've been waiting for for entries. One that will undoubtedly meet everyone.

So, let's get right to it.

Testing
Site-loading speed is one of the easiest things to test, and it is a test that many users can immediately relate to. as I said in the previous post, I'm a bigger fan of real-world tests like going to real, actual sites, then of synthetic benchmarks.

We have three different Web sites used for the tests: CNET.com, CBSNews.com and GiantBomb.com. Each tablet was connected to the same network closed with no other devices on the router, with about 5 metres away. We considered the test to start the moment we pressed Enter and run to the time that the blue progress bar on each tablet disappeared. We used iOS 4.3 for the iPad and iPad 2, and the Xoom is using Android OS 3.0.1.

Although in the video you have only one repetition for each test actually sees, we ran each test multiple times; about those points we got results consistent with what you see here. Also, we erased from every tablet browser cache before each iteration of the tests will be performed.

Now, as much as we would like for these tests fully relevant for everyone in every situation, that is almost impossible. We tested these tablets under certain conditions in a "free" environment. The network was closed, but we cannot account for noise from other networks. This is a snapshot of the performance in our test environment, and your results may vary.

Contrast ratio (max brightness)

Conclusion
The iPad 2 shows a vast improvement over the original iPad and has its own against the Xoom for the most part. On a really busy site like CBSnews.com, however, flush out the iPad 2 a little, while the Xoom flies by with relative ease.

We were surprised that Apple increased the maximum brightness on the iPad 2 and it will be interesting to see what effect that on the iPad's battery life. Look for some battery life test results very soon.

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Automate 2011 to honor first industrial Robot from 50 birthday-AZoRobotics

By Andy Choi

This pavilion would include a timeline, which can be a choice of vintage robots, an assessment of the imaginary robots created through science fiction through the ages, exhibitions and also shows the technical progress of Robotics from 1961. The automate 2011 will be held between 21 and 24 March at the McCormick Place in Chicago.

A special tribute to the father of robotics, Joseph f. Angel berger would also be given, by showing a video of the archiving of the Unimate robot, which was launched by the Angel berger company and also interviews of Angel berger taken during the period of the infancy of robotics.

Jeff Burnstein, who of the industry trade group President of Robotic Industries Association (RIA) has stated that there is more than one million industrial robots installed all over the world in factories, and all that this happened due to Joe Angel berger company Unimation. George Devol that the patent to the Unimate met Angel berger in 1956 at a cocktail party and that is where it all began. The Pavilion tribute would present the timeline of how the Unimate evolved.

The RIA would present the Angel berger Robotics Awards, the industry's highest honor to Dr. Henrik Christensen, Director of the Center for robotics and Intelligent Machines at Georgia Institute of Technology and Åke Lindqvist, former Vice President of ABB Robotics on 22 March. These awards were started in 1977 and to date more than 113 industrial leaders from 16 Nations have received and all of the recipient names would be listed in the Pavilion tribute.

This show is the largest Automation event in North America and exhibitions, robotics, motion control and machine vision solutions by more than 170 companies. More than 40 tutorials and Conference sessions are also planned for this show. According to Burnstein, more than 7,500 visitors were to attend the exhibition and many companies from around the world would like to know the advantages offered by automation. This would fall into the show and of particular importance is the presentation given by Drew Greenblatt that the President of Marlin steel wire, where he with the audience his story of robots helping him to trounce would share its competitors in China. The presentation would on 22 March at 10: 00 a.m. after the keynote address by General Motors and NASA at 8: 45 am, which is on the Robonaut 2, a humanoid robot to space would be sent.

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