This exact thing was done by Josh Smith at MIT in the 90s (see Geocities era page here ). His work was commercialized by Motorolla in their e-field sensing chip.
Invented by Dean Kaman is a bit of an exaggeration. The arm is the result of a DARPA project overseen by Deka, and involving a laundry list of partners including the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago and the University of New Brunswick. See here for the UNB page about the project.
According to the article, 60 GHz systems are "limited by the propagation characteristics of electromagnetic radiation at that frequency. Like infra-red, 60GHz waves rely on line-of-sight propagation."
The issue of "so many competing standards" isn't really an issue, each standard has its own purpose: UWB is designed for personal area networks (higher speed Bluetooth), WiMax for point to multipoint broadband internet, and 802.11x for LAN.
It supports AMR, which is the 3GPP standard codec. I'm guessing they'll use AMR with VoIP for voice connectivity, that way they can link in with 3G systems without transcoding.
Do you know what approach Corel Linux took? I remember one of it's big selling points was that you could run it from Windows just like any other program; and to delete it you just had to delete it's folder. It was slow, but it worked.
"Hundreds of customers like and use SCO's Unix products."
Hundreds? Wow, that would give them THOUSANDS of dollars of revenue. I can see what he means about them being a significant player in the tech scene.
As a student from Queen's University (7th place) I know that our solar car has a passenger in it this year. This was clearly not done to speed the car up, but rather to push the technology and see what these cars can do.
As Trudeau said:
"I know a man whose school could never teach him patriotism, but who acquired that virtue when he felt in his bones the vastness of his land, and the greatness of those who founded it."
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This exact thing was done by Josh Smith at MIT in the 90s (see Geocities era page here ). His work was commercialized by Motorolla in their e-field sensing chip.
Invented by Dean Kaman is a bit of an exaggeration. The arm is the result of a DARPA project overseen by Deka, and involving a laundry list of partners including the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago and the University of New Brunswick. See here for the UNB page about the project.
According to the article, 60 GHz systems are "limited by the propagation characteristics of electromagnetic radiation at that frequency. Like infra-red, 60GHz waves rely on line-of-sight propagation." The issue of "so many competing standards" isn't really an issue, each standard has its own purpose: UWB is designed for personal area networks (higher speed Bluetooth), WiMax for point to multipoint broadband internet, and 802.11x for LAN.
It supports AMR, which is the 3GPP standard codec. I'm guessing they'll use AMR with VoIP for voice connectivity, that way they can link in with 3G systems without transcoding.
Do you know what approach Corel Linux took? I remember one of it's big selling points was that you could run it from Windows just like any other program; and to delete it you just had to delete it's folder. It was slow, but it worked.
If you've ever ridden a motorbike/scooter in Canada in January, you'll know why they're not as popular here (or in the US) as they are in Spain/Asia.
"...a new set-top box built for them buy Samsung that will hold movies downloaded..."
it seems someone has a hidden agenda.
Kai Makisara:
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I was wondering when someone would get around to this.
"Hundreds of customers like and use SCO's Unix products." Hundreds? Wow, that would give them THOUSANDS of dollars of revenue. I can see what he means about them being a significant player in the tech scene.
SCO's licence only refers to running Linux. Good thing I run GNU/Linux.
As a student from Queen's University (7th place) I know that our solar car has a passenger in it this year. This was clearly not done to speed the car up, but rather to push the technology and see what these cars can do.
As Trudeau said:
"I know a man whose school could never teach him patriotism, but who acquired that virtue when he felt in his bones the vastness of his land, and the greatness of those who founded it."