Posted on 21 May 2009
Introducing the Shadow Caddy, a fully autonomous golf club carrying cart that trails behind you automatically. The three-wheeled cart works by following a signal from a transmitter worn on the golfer’s body. Switching the caddy’s setting from “Follow-Me” to “Park” makes sure it never accidentally follows you into a bunker or onto the green. As [...]
Tags: automatic, caddy, electronic, golf, robotic
Posted on 14 May 2009
It knows only 32 words, but someday, it may get a grip on the entire human vocabulary. A group of engineering students at Carnegie Mellon University gave this term a twist and created a hand that talks. The students Bhargav Bhat, Hemant Sikaria, Jorge L. Meza and Wesley Jin demonstrated their project ‘HandTalk‘ a sensor [...]
Tags: Bluetooth, carnegie mellon university, glove, sensor, sign language, software, sound, Speech, text to speech, text to speech software