Leber says Swisslog’s system can work four to five times as quickly as human-powered operations of similar size. Click&Pick can fill 1,000 orders in an hour and an individual order in as fast as 20 minutes. And the system scales tidily. Have more SKUs? Get more robots. As for the robots themselves, they don’t need to sleep - at least not much. Each ( Read more... )

"Scholars at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have developed a method for creating 3D models of pretty much anything in pretty much no time. Using a sexy algorithm and the millions of photographs available from Flickr, the team can create a sophisticated three-dimensional model on a single personal computer in under a day." ?
Emphases

When your folks ask you to come over to see why firefox isnt working anymore, you know* its not just fox thats gone pear-shaped. :(

Overuse of the lulz tag, and this article here or may I'm just hungry for breakfast? creates the sweet tag. Tagging + delicious is just so much easier with one hand, and when delicious (previously del.icio.us) made a very useful posting bookmarklet? I stopped looking for browser-based extensions/addons. In related news I've started importing my ( Read more... )

With movies readily available on-demand on your television set and as legitimate downloads viewable on your computer, one might ask why even bother with physical media. VCDs, in particular. Netflix and other services will snail you right quick your flick of choice with one mouse click, oh convenience for sure. So why tango with diy-tastic somewhat ( Read more... )

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Roundtree, my trusty thumbdrive that contains fully customised Firefox and a few other goodies (most notably Open Office) went wonkers after being used on a Mac. Couldn't update FF and while it could browse, all the addons were kaput and, what's this!? Adverts ( Read more... )

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Thirteen reasons to doubt the iPhone hype


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