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A user of OCAU, Nuxie1 has won the Hack a Day design challenge. Details of his design can be found on his site here and there is a thread discussing this here. I'll keep this short and sweet. Fabienne, Eliot and I unanimously chose [Nuxie1]'s entry as the winner. His board is a nicely done USB PIC prototyping board. [Nuxie1] gets some sweet prizes and some bragging rights. Congratulations [Nuxie1]!
Nick sent in word that Whirlpool has released the results of their Broadband choice survey. The Australian Broadband Survey for 2006 was conducted over a four week period — from 31 December 2006 to 4 February 2007, during which the survey was successfully completed and verified a total of 20,030 times. As this was an open survey, we are extremely rigorous about maintaining the integrity of the data — to that end, sophisticated techniques were employed to detect and eliminate entries deemed to be duplicates or ballot stuffing. This final corpus used for analysis was reached after rejecting over 350 submissions for various reasons.
The South Korean government is planning to construct some ethical guidelines on the roles and functions of robots. A recent government report forecast that robots would routinely carry out surgery by 2018. The Ministry of Information and Communication has also predicted that every South Korean household will have a robot by between 2015 and 2020.
Some Chinese scientists have created a computer controlled pigeon using electrodes wired into the birds' brain. Chinese scientists succeeded to attach a chip to the brain of a pigeon which allowed them to remotely control the pigeon movements. The scientists from the Robot Engineering Technology Research Centre at Shandong University of Science and Technology in China used hair-thin electrodes which were implanted in the brain of the pigeon in key locations responsible for movement.
Trilby has sent in this article about some various odd PCs. You sent me stories about the oddest, coolest, most bizarre, most eccentric or most outlandish PC or PC mod you've ever seen. I thought I'd publish a single story with your weirdest and most wonderful and be done with it.
Wazza has sent in this website of a company called General Micro Systems which specialize in some really cool embedded systems. Wazza pointed me to their Asylum S50X tiny embedded computer which can be ordered in two different flavors, one of them temperature hardened for use up to +85 degrees.
IGN have taken a look at the PAL Retail PS3 and what it comes with. Getting into the office this morning was a little more exciting than normal. Sure, we still had to run the usual gauntlet - past the swinging blades, over the pits filled with crocodiles and through the lava world, before pushing a couple of crates into place to gain access to IGN AU HQ, but waiting for us at the end was our PAL retail PS3! Huzzah! We figured that opening up the box would make for a great photo feature, but we were wrong. It made for an AWESOME photo feature. Not really.
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