Your hub for Blerd news, mobilized by AT&T.
Storm is an electric bicycle designed to be cheap and practical. It’s the 1987 Honda Civic of electric bikes, stripped down to the basics. There’s no regenerative braking, or a fancy housing to disguise the massive batteries needed to give bikes any kind of range for commuting. Kyle Russell takes the new Storm eBike for a spin.
Source: TechCrunch
Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson explains why we should go to Mars.
Source: Neil deGrasse Tyson Videos
Language. Easy for humans to understand (most of the time), but not so easy for computers. This is a short film about speech recognition, language understanding, neural nets, and using our voices to communicate with the technology around us.
Source: Google
Rest Devices makes a smart onesie called the Mimo that tracks your baby’s activity and streams all the data to your smartphone.
Source: Reviewed.com
Researchers in UMIACS are investigating autonomy in robotics that includes action recognition. At the heart of this technique lies a novel active tracking and segmentation method that monitors the changes in appearance and topological structure of manipulated objects.
Source: UMIACS
We’ve just taken Hyundai’s new smartwatch app for a spin. It lets you start your engine, lock your doors, and even find your car, right from your wrist.
Source: USA Today
It seems like 2015 is looking a lot like the year of the smart home, and CES is ground zero. But building a good smart home ecosystem needs to be about solving genuine human problems and not just filling a house with toys. Bloomberg’s Stephen Pulvirent rounds up the best smart home products at CES that you actually should buy.
Source: Bloomberg Business
Microsoft’s new holographic headset can be used to play Minecraft, make video calls, do your work, and more.
Source: IGN
DARPA revealed upgrades to its Atlas robot on Jan. 20. The robot was redesigned for DARPA by Boston Dynamics, with the goal of improving power efficiency to better support battery operation. Approximately 75 percent of the robot was rebuilt; only the lower legs and feet were carried over from the original design. The upgraded robot will be used by up to seven teams competing in the DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals, which will take place June 5-6 at Fairplex in Pomona, California. Admission to the event is free and open to the public.
Source: DARPAtv
Meet Tristan Walker, from diverse start-up Walker and Co., who has set out to prove that startups don’t have to be primarily male and white.
Source: USA Today