I went to this great open house yesterday on campus, "Robot Block Party." Everything from the Nasa robotics team to amateur tinkerers frankensteining robots in their backyards. A couple people from the Exhibits team at the Cal Academy showed a kinect-powered robot they had been tinkering with as a side project, where - their idea - would be to put the robot (with a camera) on the roof, and you'd be able to "drive" it using the kinect inside the museum. And of course, there was the self-driving race car, complete with the ubiquitous Stanford parking sticker.

Future of architecture and design

e-paper released overseas - from the article: "LG's EPD is a 6-inch, 1024×768 e-ink plastic screen. It's 0.7mm thick, it weighs 14g, and LG claims it's resistant to scratches and drops from a 1.5 meter height. Of course, its biggest claim to fame is its flexibility: LG claims the screen allows bending at a range of 40 degrees from its center."

Institute for the Future

Event to widen the collaboration loop - makers/creators/innovators. Sponsored by Institute for the Future among others.

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