Your Laptop Can Be A Beer-fetching Robot
News Upcoming accessories will include a "gripper arm" that allows the robot to grasp and carry objects; in a popular demonstration of the arm, an ER1-outfitted laptop grabbed a beer from a refrigerator and brought it to the owner.
[October 2, 2002, 13:39]
Transforming A Laptop Into A Robot
News Program the software to recognise a beer bottle and a refrigerator, for example, and next time you're running on empty, you just need to wave a bottle in front of the laptop's camera and request a refill.
[May 23, 2002, 8:59]
The Ethernet Alliance - 802 Dot Why?
Leader So the Ethernet Alliance's formation earlier this week - purpose, to promote the use of the eponymous standard - would seem as pointless as the creation of the Beer Marketing Board. Born thirty years ago, it is now a true standard: your laptop will...
[January 12, 2006, 13:55]
Open Source 'split By Digital Divide'
Talkback When children would get a notebox (Notebook - lunchbox) and take it home and the parents are no part of it the notebox will either end up against the wall, the floor or sold for a bottle of beer if it is not stolen somewhere between school and house.
[July 17, 2006, 0:40]
Different Varieties Of Apple Are Healthier
Leader The MacBook Air is a champagne laptop in a beer economy; the buzz is already dying, even as the units hit the shops. It takes a long memory to recall the last time Apple had an enterprise strategy that went beyond occasionally producing a server.
[January 29, 2008, 16:42]
Airline Internet Service Ready For Takeoff
News The airlines are concerned that customers get what they want," James Beer, a vice president at American, said at a press conference, highlighting the service's appeal to business travelers. Passengers will need to bring their own Internet...
[June 13, 2001, 17:30]
