Wot u do!

This week I attended the Architect Insight Conference in the UK. The conference is for leading software architects to share the latest implementation strategies. I was exhibiting my Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio(MSRDS) work accompanied by Lib-b and A1-DW. My goal was to talk about the software...

If you have ever had a drink or a meal in a Hard Rock Cafe you will be aware of the enormous range of music memorabilia on display at each cafe. Now you can look at it all in close up detail using some new technology from Microsoft called Silverlight and its DeepZoom feature. I'm sure we could have...

I'm off to Leicester University's 50th anniversary Science Day celebration this weekend - Saturday 8th. I'll be showing off a number of fun things including something I'm working on at the moment - robotic missile launcher targeting :-) With Braintech's new Volts-IQ vision SDK there...

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I hope I live to see the day household service droids can be purchased from your local super market (or much more preferably from your non-chain local high street specialist!!).     I have pretty much a dream job now - but my real dream job would be as an owner of a high street household robotic...

Today I spent over 90mins having x-rays taken of my kidneys. Its difficult to see the structure of kidneys in x-rays so a contrast medium is injected into you and you have to have an empty bladder. Towards the end of the 90mins, before the final x-ray was taken, I was asked to 'go and empty my bladder...

The Metro free newspaper circulated around London rail stations reports: The Internet is turning many Britons into cheats, spies, thieves and liars who pretend they have far more interesting lives. More than half of us regularly illegally download music and films for free, while 46 percent of people...

If you read this blog at all you'll know I enjoy building and dreaming of robots. So to co-inside with the Robots Supplement that is available this month we're running another competition - yes another one, that's three if you include the one in the robots supplement!!!! - where you can win...

Capture the fun and happiness this festive season on your video camera and use Windows MovieMaker to produce a professional quality film to share with friends and family. If you have Windows XP or Windows Vista on your PC you have Windows MovieMaker available to you. Windows MovieMaker allows you to...

I was able to attend the First Lego League 'Power Puzzle' challenge tournament at the Imperial War Museum at Duxford last weekend. Duxford, an old WWII fighter air base, has an enormous collection of commercial and military planes. The FLL tournament took place nestled amongst some of the exhibits...