Posts Tagged ‘Gizmodo’

Boston Dynamics’ Little Dog robot: Just like the Big Dog, except …

Thursday, September 24th, 2009

Boston Dynamics, the Waltham-based maker of military robots that are incidentally quite entertaining, should really look into monetizing its test videos. Gizmodo posts videos of the Little Dog, the Scrappy-Doo of the headless robotic dog set.

Designed by Katie Byl of Harvard’s Microrobotics (typing that word almost shut my brain down) Lab, which has also developed robotic flies.

Boston Dynamics has the Big Dog and the Precision Urban Hopper in the can, and announced in April it’s developing a humanoid robot. This should be good.

After the jump, watch another video of the Little Dog operate in view of an organic version of a robotic dog made from biological materials, who does not seem happy about the whole situation. (more…)

Mass Old Tech: Gizmodo on Polaroid, Visicalc

Thursday, July 16th, 2009

Gizmodo’s “Gizmodo ‘79″ series takes a look at a couple of pieces of local innovation: The Polaroid SX-70, which looks it was pretty fun, and Dan Bricklin’s Visicalc, which does not, though clearly it was handy.

After the jump, watch a clip of the PBS documentary “Triumph of the Nerds” about the importance of Visicalc to the early personal computing industry. (more…)

Gizmodo: Altitude’s LightLane in production

Wednesday, June 24th, 2009

Gizmodo notes that LightLane, a product designed for a competition by Somerville product design firm Altitude, is being manufactured.

LightLane is a small LED projector that attaches to a bike under the seat. When switched on, it projects a green, luminous bike lane on either side of the bike, the authority of which Boston drivers will doubtlessly respect.  

Ironically, Altitude is located in the one place in the Paris of the West where you may not need a LightLane — on its bike path.

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