Wot u do!

I'm playing with my robots again. This time I want voice control. I discovered that my Bluetooth headset doesn't deliver the quality required by the Windows Vista Speech Recognition function, so I was looking for another headset to use. I can already drive my robots around using a wired Xbox...

In between filming interviews and making other films I managed to get some time coding with BT's Web 21st Century SDK . This allows devs to do some interesting phone stuff very easily. From SMS messaging, placing voice calls to conference calls and even IVR applications, the Web21CSDK provides some...

DARPA's Urban Challenge is underway with the vehicles currently being evaluated before the final 20 are announced on the 1st Nov. Unfortunately the Princeton Uni entry - PAVE - has been plagued with problems with them just getting the car ready for the E-Stop test, and then being disabled only 100ft...

It seems an age already but only last month I was working in Redmond for a week. During this time I got to catch up with former UK colleague Mike Hall now high on the lofty career ladder as Software Archiect for Windows Embedded. Mike showed me a blog post of his I had missed and, well, I've just...