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Human robots: almost the perfect arm, or …

Arturo Ochoa — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 15:34:22 +0000

… or maybe better than the arm we have?

This video shows the development on robotics and human prosthesis, and at the same time it makes me think about how intelligent was whoever created us, by evolution or by design, and how far are we still from replicating this creation. But slowly, I’m sure, by putting all the inventions and discoveries together, we are going to be able to match one day what evolution took millions of years to create. Well, only if we have enough time before we destroy our planet and ourselves.

If only we could find the human “maps”, “plan” or “formula” used by our creators, then we could just keep on improving the design instead of starting from scratch.

Enjoy and be amazed by this video:

Chrome, the new browser from Google is out, and ready for download

Arturo Ochoa — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 19:59:47 +0000

I just installed Chrome, the new browser from Google and it’s fast and it looks very clean. Unfortunately at the moment it only works in Windows. I hope to see the Linux and Mac versions soon.

Click here to go to the download page

Very clean interface, no menus and tool bars filling the space:

When you open a new Tab or Window, automatically it show the pages that you use more often:

You don’t need to know the full “address” for the website you are looking for, just start typing the name or whatever you want to search or any words related to it, and the browser will show you the more likely results that match the words criteria:

Google Chrome coming soon

Arturo Ochoa — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 18:46:29 +0000

I have been reading about Chrome, the new browser from Google, and I’m very excited about the possibilities that it is going to offer to “work” the Internet, as a browser and as a platform for developing new applications. At Google they have created a “comic” to explain it, it is so easy that even not technical people can follow it. I have to say that the ideas on security are really good, I hope they work as intended.

Have a look at how Chrome works here: The Chrome Comic

BigDog and his “friends”, all robots.

Arturo Ochoa — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 18:48:43 +0000

When I saw the robot called BigDog in the next link, I almost felt pain for the effort it was doing to climb or going through the icy patch. It is almost like an “animal” without a head. But you have to see it to believe it:

BigDog: The Most Advanced Quadruped Robot on Earth

The new cars powered by hydrogen

Arturo Ochoa — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 10:09:37 +0000

If you haven’t hear about this yet then have a look at these videos from the BBC and be impressed, because this is the future of energy generation.

Hydrogen car put through paces

Hydrogen car launched

Running on home-brewed hydrogen

Mac + Firefox now can do -Dictionary-

Arturo Ochoa — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 19:47:04 +0000

Even though Safari from Apple seems to be a very good browser, having moved from the world of PCs and Windows to Mac quite recently, I’m still faithful to my favorite browser: Firefox. Why? The main reason for me is the amazing world of extensions, but specially NoScript, the extension that keep my computers sane and healthy.

Well, but this post is not about NoScript, it is about a small annoyance with the interactivity between Firefox and Mac: I couldn’t open the Mac Dictionary when selecting words in Firefox. Today I found an extension called “Look Up in Dictionary 0.1” that just create that connection between these two programs, and finally I can search from any word on the Mac dictionary from Firefox as I do from email, safari, skype, etc., etc. It add the missing Look Up in Dictionary option to the options menu when selecting a word.

Sometimes I wonder how many people bother with these problems. Let me know if you find this post useful