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I imagine a brilliant scientist somewhere was thinking of what he could do one day and came up with: I think I’ll make a robot that runs on human excrement, then craps into a litter box. And there you have it, the EcoBot-III. Thanks to funding from Bill and Melinda Gates, you know of Microsoft, researchers at Bristol Robotics Laboratory gave EcoBot-III sensors to move itself towards food, water or light which it consumes and then poops out the waste. Like don’t stand in the light, swim or smell tasty. Previous versions ran on other bio material like dead flies or sugar which were processed through the MFC or Microbial Fuel Cell which uses e-coli bacteria to turn the bio matter into electricity. The software and sensors monitor the digestive system and can wirelessly report on its surroundings.

A robot that runs on human excrement could easily follow us to remote places without having to compete with us for resources. Though if it’s going to use a litter box, I’d rather have it clean that out and move the contents to the toilet. And maybe clean up stray hairballs/regurgitated cat food around the house while it’s at it.

Barnes & Noble Introduces NOOK Tablet^? ? 8GB For Incredibly Low Price of $199

New Addition to Hot-Selling, Highly Rated NOOK Tablet Line Offers Fastest, Lightest, Most Powerful Tablet with the Best in Reading and Entertainment, Now in 8GB, at an Amazing Value

Award-Winning NOOK Color^? Now Offered at its Lowest Price Ever ? $169

New York, New York ? February 21, 2012 ? Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), the leading retailer of content, digital media and educational products, today expanded its portfolio of bestselling NOOK^® devices with the introduction of NOOK Tablet ? with 8GB of memory, a tremendous value for the company?s fastest and lightest tablet at just $199. NOOK Tablet ? 8GB version offers reading and mobile entertainment enthusiasts another great option in the NOOK family of devices. In addition, the company?s highly popular NOOK Color just became an even greater value at $169.

?For any customer who likes to read digitally, watch movies or TV shows, browse the web, or help their kids read and learn through interactive books and apps, our new $199 NOOK Tablet with 8GB is the best product value on the market,? said William Lynch, Chief Executive Office of Barnes & Noble. ?NOOK Tablet is the highest-rated wireless media tablet in the 7-inch class, ultra-portable at under a pound, offers our exclusive VividView^? screen technology, and since its introduction this holiday has received rave reviews from customers about all its great features. We?re pleased to now offer customers the ability to experience NOOK Tablet?s unmatched content experience for only $199.?

The newest member of the NOOK Tablet family offers the great features of top-selling NOOK Tablet ? 16GB, but with 8GB of on-board memory, 512MB of RAM and a lower cost of just $199. NOOK Tablet ? 8GB version includes all of these great features also available on NOOK Tablet ? 16GB ($249):

·         A highly tuned 1GHz dual-core processor for streaming video and lightning-fast Web browsing so customers can surf their favorite sites, and built-in email to stay easily connected with friends and family

·         Breakthrough battery life, with 11.5 hours of reading time or nine hours of video viewing

·         With on-board storage plus convenient microSD memory expansion, customers have ample space for their reading and entertainment content, regardless of Wi-Fi availability

• The world?s most advanced VividView display for viewing content, with 16 million colors and a resolution purity that?s simply gorgeous
• Popular movies, TV shows and music from top services including Netflix, Hulu Plus^?, Flixster, Pandora^®, Rhapsody^®, Grooveshark, MOG and many more.

·         Thousands of top-rated, high-quality NOOK Apps, all optimized for NOOK Tablet?s ultra-responsive 7-inch color touchscreen, in categories including Games, Kids, Travel, Education, Lifestyle & Interest, News & Weather, Social, Productivity and others. Favorites including Cut the Rope, Disney Publishing?s It?s a Small World and more are coming soon to the robust NOOK Apps catalog.

·         Barnes & Noble?s award-winning reading experience, featuring more than 2.5 million digital books, periodicals, children?s books and more, including:

o   NOOK Newsstand^?: An expansive collection of more than 450 digital periodical titles, which includes the largest digital collection of top 100 magazines available for subscription and single copy purchase. Colorful interactive magazines offer Barnes & Noble?s ArticleView^?, animated page turns and smooth pinch, zoom and panning. Many special edition NOOK Magazines^? feature videos, quizzes, image galleries and more.

o   NOOK Kids^?: More than 1,400 interactive children?s picture books, some featuring animation and engaging activities, and more than 12,000 chapter books. With Read and Record^?, customers can use NOOK Tablet?s built-in microphone to record and save their reading of any NOOK Kids picture books so children can listen to their favorite storytellers anytime.

o   NOOK Comics and graphic novels: A vast collection of full-color comics, graphic novels and kids? comics in high resolution and the largest digital collection of Marvel?s graphic novels available through a third party, as well as other titles from leading publishers including Archie, IDW and Dynamite. Through a partnership with VIZ Media, LLC, the largest publisher of anime and manga in North America, NOOK customers can access more than 30 series, featuring nearly 430 volumes.

o   Books and more: Continuously expanded NOOK Store^? with the vast majority of books available for $9.99 or less. Barnes & Noble?s digital book collection includes PagePerfect^? NOOK Books^? featuring cookbooks, craft and art books rendered with rich precision to retain all the beauty of their stunning print versions, and enhanced reading with PDF thumbnail page views, and image pinch, zoom and pan in books and PDFs.

o   Discover and socialize: Learn what to read next from Barnes& Noble?s knowledgeable booksellers with personalized recommendations, or connect through NOOK Friends^? to share thoughts, lend books through the exclusive LendMe^® technology and more via email and sites like Facebook.

o   Continuous reading: Read what you love, anywhere you like^? on NOOK devices and with FREE NOOK Reading Apps. Sync your library, last page read, bookmarks, etc. across all of your devices through NOOK Cloud.

·         Sleek and thin with a soft touch back design, and lightweight at under a pound (14.1 oz.), making it easy to carry in a handbag, briefcase, backpack or suit jacket pocket for reading and entertainment on-the-go.

Customers can, as always, access their personal NOOK Library^? through the free, reliable and secure NOOK Cloud^? service, which also powers the seamless integration and synchronization between devices, as well as NOOK?s best-in-class shopping experience and social features.

Says Lynch, ?NOOK Tablet, NOOK Color and NOOK Simple Touch^? represent the highest-quality portfolio of reading and entertainment products on the market at the best value. Whether it?s movies, music and apps on-the-go that you crave, or a simple, immersive reading experience, we offer great products and more choices than ever before with our product portfolio, starting at just $99.?

NOOK Color: Now $169

The highly acclaimed NOOK Color, offering access to top video and music services, popular apps, comics and more, is now available at a new low price of just $169, starting today. The first Reader?s Tablet, NOOK Color combines an award-winning reading experience with tablet essentials including apps, Web and email. NOOK Color customers can download Netflix to watch movies and TV shows, access a wide array of books, periodicals and comics, enjoy top music services and thousands of apps, browse the easy-to-use, social and streamlined NOOK Store.

Availability

NOOK Tablet ? 8GB version is available for purchase today for $199 at www.nook.com and in Barnes & Noble stores, and will be available in leading retailers including Best Buy, Target and Walmart in the coming weeks. NOOK Color is now available in Barnes & Noble stores and www.nook.com for $169. Experience NOOK Tablet, NOOK Color and NOOK Simple Touch at www.nook.com or at the NOOK Digital Shops?, which feature the full portfolio of NOOK digital devices and FREE NOOK Reading Apps^?, or displays in one of Barnes & Noble?s nearly 700 bookstores and other leading retailers. Barnes & Noble offers Always Free NOOK Supportin all of its neighborhood bookstores, with more than 40,000 NOOKsellers across the country ready to assist customers with setting up their NOOK devices or choosing their next great read.

I imagine a brilliant scientist somewhere was thinking of what he could do one day and came up with: I think I’ll make a robot that runs on human excrement, then craps into a litter box. And there you have it, the EcoBot-III. Thanks to funding from Bill and Melinda Gates, you know of Microsoft, researchers at Bristol Robotics Laboratory gave EcoBot-III sensors to move itself towards food, water or light which it consumes and then poops out the waste. Like don’t stand in the light, swim or smell tasty. Previous versions ran on other bio material like dead flies or sugar which were processed through the MFC or Microbial Fuel Cell which uses e-coli bacteria to turn the bio matter into electricity. The software and sensors monitor the digestive system and can wirelessly report on its surroundings.

A robot that runs on human excrement could easily follow us to remote places without having to compete with us for resources. Though if it’s going to use a litter box, I’d rather have it clean that out and move the contents to the toilet. And maybe clean up stray hairballs/regurgitated cat food around the house while it’s at it.

ENJOY HEALTH BENEFITS WITH TEN GREAT IPHONE APPS 

Perhaps you never imagined that your iPhone Apps can have a great role to play in helping you lead a healthy life. Believe me, it is true and many users have experienced this happy way to get in shape and enjoy a chance of staying hale and hearty. Of course, it is important that you seriously follow the tips and advice offered by these apps for they can only act as a guide, a friend, a trainer or a coach, but they cannot substitute you. The decision to exercise or not, eat or not and stay fit or not is ultimately only yours. Nevertheless, these apps simplify your goal of keeping you healthy and fit as long as you use them.

Have a look at some of these Great iPhone Apps which can bring wonderful results into your life. There are plenty of apps meant for exercise, diet and keeping track of your health status. You can make use of their power to bring in energy and activity in your life. Staying healthy, energetic and fit has never been as simple as now. You can get a great toned body a slim and attractive shape and even identify some illness at the earliest and getting some basic medical advice.

This can help you exercise your breathing and bring about unbelievable benefits to your mental and physical health. All you need to do is to use this tool to harness the knowledge and power of ancient Indian wisdom and channelize your energy while getting rid of your mental stress. You will be able to enjoy a higher level of energy if you use this to control and time your breathing exercises as described.

It is referred to as the perfect stress removing app ever by some iphone users over the years because of their personal experience while using it.

This health, happiness and fitness app guides you to maintain and track your habits. Simple and useful reminders on exercise schedule, healthy diet and your progress level can go a long way in assisting you on your journey to stay fit.

What are the things you are doing that are not good for your healthy living? Follow the guides from this app and it will reveal them to you one after other to help you live a better life. It was featured on slideshare some months ago because the app was greatly built.

This app will help you shed those unwanted calories off your body. Your battle with weight loss, diet regimen and schedule for tracking meals is diligently captured and presented to you.

Why are you becoming too fat at this present age of yours? Stop this now because it could affect you in future.

Don?t you know that it is not good to be too fat and it also not good to have bad body shape and that is why you need this app to track your calorie intake.

This wonderful app is a boon for diabetic patients. It helps them monitor their sugar levels regularly and helps them take necessary preventive steps to avoid any unpleasant surprises by keeping track of carbohydrate intake and insulin doses.

This app is a Godsend to diabetic patients that can easily lay their hands on it because it promises to help them straighten their mode of living even under extreme condition. And if you have any diabetic person closer to you, you can refer this app to the person.

This caters to the needs of an expecting mother while her body changes and the development of the baby. This relieves the user of keeping a painstaking record of the entire pregnancy period.

Now, expectant mothers don?t have to wait till the last day before they could easily get hold of information pertaining to their unborn child?s condition inside their bellies.

They can easily track and know what is going on well and not well with the baby in order to call the attention of the doctor to it.

This app guides you to choose and select the right kind of food that might otherwise tempt you. A quick check on this app will help you in your decision making and you will not take a bite that you will regret.

Featured on Appadvice and MensHealth as the perfect app for building good body posture and reducing fake body size.

With the Smoothie app, you have great selection of recipes in your pocket without hassle.

This is an excellent app that helps you keep a healthy check on your consumption pattern of drinks.

Before is the time when people can just take in any kind of drinks without checking maybe it is the right one to take or not, this time, things have changed and the rate at which people are getting into health problem has paved way for developers to create an app for checking this action to avoid this problem from growing day by day.

This interesting app helps you in your workout. It is like a point based game that gives you incentive to workout.

There are video demonstrations accompanied with a voice based commentary that guides you along your workout schedule.

It was designed and owned by the popular brand, Nike and the app has been featured live on Mashable when Nike was just announcing the release of the app.

This great app is meant to keep a record of your runs and gives you feedback. Whether you are outdoors or in your gym, each run is tracked.

This app was designed by RunKeeper and it features a lot of benefits for anyone interested in using it.

This app is really a top notch healthy living app that makes live more easier for people to live. To add to that, ReadWriteWeb has featured this app on its page for couples of months because of its usefulness to human being.

This is also an amazing app where you get plenty of information ranging from nutrition facts, recipes, articles and an interactive user community.

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The famous ?Big Dog?, a quadruped robot with a characteristic life-like appearance evolved into the new Legged Squad Support System (LS3), which recently underwent its first outdoor test. The new LS3 like its predecessor is a highly mobile, semi-autonomous legged robot. It use vision sensors (DARPA calls them ?eyes?) to follow a person and also to map its path while avoiding or navigating over obstacles like rocks, trees etc. Over the next 18 months it will be tested thoroughly in order to be able to operate along a squad of Marines or soldiers. LS3 should carry 400lbs of cargo on a 20 mile trek in 24h without refuel. It could follow a specific person, track people, objects and the terrain in front of it while creating its own course. Along with its vision sensors, ?hearing? technology will be added enabling soldiers to address it and command it with simple orders like ?stop?, ?sit? etc. The end result will be similar to a clever robot mule that will follow and obey to simple commands. You can find more info in DARPA?s press release and at the website of Boston Dynamics.