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Double Robotics gives iPad wheels and lets you lsquo;be therersquo; without being there.Telepresence robots allow you to be in a remote place by providing mobility, vision, and audio on a platform you control. Startup Double Robotics has leapfrogged the market with a $2,499 body to give your iPad wheels and an app to become your remote proxy.Other companies have been tryi polene canada ng this for years, including Anybots, one of the most successful to-date, and available for sale here. Anybots went for a slightly humanoid look, but the screen, built into the forehead of the unit, is tiny. People at the remote end must struggle to look at the small screen, rather than the two camera eyes on the unit. Enter Double Robotics, and their integration of 10 inch iPads version 2 or 3 only, because of the camera as the face of their telepresence unit. The user holds an iPad the same way for Double Robotics as for a video conference, so a face will fill the screen on the remote owala website end. DR makes the wheels balancing like a Segway , height-adjustable stand stanley cup , and app to run the Double what they call a single unit, oddly enough . High quality video streaming is provided by OpenTok.Based in Silicon Valley Mountain View , Double Robotics has sold out their first pre-production order at the discounted price of $1,999. These are scheduled to be delivered in December. Orders placed now, still at the introductory rate, will be delivered e Tjai This smartphone will self-destruct in 5 seconds
Computerworld Kenya NAIROBI, Kenya mdash; The country code subgroup of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers has criticized ICANN President and CE stanley termos O Rod Beckstrom for inflammatory comments that the domain name system is not as secure as it used to be.While speaking at the Government Advisory Committee meeting on Tuesday, Beckstrom said more concerted efforts are needed to protect the DNS because it is under more polene store attacks, is fragile and vulnerable, and can stop any time.In the session with the GAC and board members, Beckstrom addressed DNS abuse cases by some unspecified countries and promised to write to GAC members for more information and advice on DNS in their countries. The domain name system is under attack today as it has never been before. I have personally consulted with over 20 CEOs of the top registries and the top registrars globally, all of whom are seeing increasing attacks and complexity of attacks and who are extremely concerned, Beckstrom said.Chris Disspain, chairman of the Country Code Name Supporting Organization ccNSO council, took issue with the statement to the GAC, terming it inflammatory and capable of rolling back the gains made by ccTLD managers and government officials in relation to DNS security.Your inflammatory comments to go stanley quencher vernmental representatives regarding mdash; in your view mdash; the precarious state of the security of the DNS, have the potential to und |
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