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In 1926, TV Was Mechanical

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Nipkow never commercialized his electric telescope, though, and after 15 years the patent expired. The inset on the left shows how the televisor split an image (in this case, a person’s face) into vertical lines. In 1926, Baird loaned part of the televisor he used in his Selfridges demo to the Science Museum in London.

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Why Haven't Hoverbikes Taken Off?

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Their demos and PR campaigns have continued to whet the public’s appetite for hoverbikes, but there are some solid reasons why the nascent hoverbike industry has yet to get airborne. For larger aircraft like the big Boeing commercial jets and larger helicopters, the standard is even more stringent. It’s one in one billion flight hours.”

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Never Recharge Your Consumer Electronics Again?

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We’re saving the end user, the contractor, the guy who uses them a lot of hassle to buy this battery, store them. So yeah, so we have sold a few hundred thousand products over the last three years when we started selling commercially. We have a globally exclusive deal for electronic shelf labels, the small price tags in the stores.

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For Better or Worse, Tesla Bot Is Exactly What We Expected

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I do want to set some expectations with respect to our Optimus robot… Last year was just a person in a robot suit, but we’ve come a long way, and compared to that, it’s going to be very impressive.” Tesla Bot Development Platform Demo. Tesla Bot Latest Generation Demo. Tesla These quotes are all from Musk. “I

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Standards Certification Testing: Bringing Order to the Internet of Things

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In 2007, Comarch began working with the UPnP Forum (now part of the Open Connectivity Foundation ) to certify Universal Plug and Play compliance for personal computers, Wi-Fi access points, routers, audiovisual, and other devices on home-scale networks. Comarch used CATF to build FiRa’s MAC Conformance Test Tool.

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

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Networks that link personal computers in offices. The ideas developed at PARC found their way into a number of commercial products, companies, and publications, shown here as leafy branches. If it was a personal computer, you had to be able to build 100.” Colorful weather maps on TV news programs. Laser printers. Frame buffer.

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From Home Brew to Hasbro

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They were not widely used, but for some reason the surplus store had a big box of them. for “Automated Music Personality,” or AMPbot for short. We reinvigorated the stock of limited prototypes we had built, and took AMPbot to the Demo Conference in 2010 and tried to launch it as its own project.