Machines with a mind of their own
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Why my cellphone keeps calling people on its own and my microwave oven is in revolt.
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THE modern PC is a marvel, isn&#39;t it? Here&#39;s a machine that lets an ordinary person with very little training create a new document, check its spelling, dress it up with graphics, send it electronically
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Submachine gun, check. Semiautomatic pistol, check. Personal digital assistant, check.
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Scientists have grown a "brain" in a petri dish that can fly a simulated F-22 fighter airplane. It's all part of a quest to build "living" computers.
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Spanish scientists are building a robotic wheelchair controlled by thought, so even completely immobile patients can have some freedom of movement. By Emmet Cole.
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The next big use for iRobot's bots: patrolling international borders.
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Can computers get along fine without writers? Word is they just might. [Missing Link]
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They're not obvious and they're not always cheap.
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Computer monitors with mechanical  arms, wristwatches and binoculars that play music and phones  disguised as cameras are just some of the technological  innovations propelling the digital electronics revolution  forward.
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Nothing can possibly go wrong ... go wrong ... go wrong ...The truth behind the old joke is that most robots are programmed with a fairly rigid &quot;model&quot; of what they and the world around them are like.
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In the continuing quest to see if humans can outpace their electronic creations, the humans have lost another, perhaps decisive, round.
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Niche market potential In the past, equipment control for manufacturing processes on the shop floor tended to be carried out by discrete systems running arcane real time operating systems controlled by proprietary management systems that had no connection through to other systems.â¦
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Scientists create a tiny engine that could become a power source for future nano-scale devices.
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Companies are developing MRAM, which could be used in portable electronic devices.
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Machines that only a few years ago seemed to be the stuff of fantasy are slowly but surely reaching the mainstream.  Photos: IBM's Blue Gene/L  Photos: Barcelona's big blade
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A machine that can simplify lives and family schedules all over the country.
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A team of US researchers has shown that controlling devices with the brain is a step closer. Four people, two of them partly paralysed wheelchair users, successfully moved a computer cursor while wearing a cap with 64 electrodes.