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...what's nice is that it won't cross any boundary that's over three millimeters high. Chances are, the Scooba will respect a door jamb or other low boundary separating your kitchen and bathrooms from the rest of the house. If not, the kit comes with a Virtual Wall that creates an invisible border that the Scooba will not pass...
...Markus Brehler found himself in an enviable position for someone contemplating the launch of a company. To investigate demand for a sensor that can generate its own power, Brehler pretended he already had a company. "We were curious to test the response, so we just created a virtual company," says the founder and CEO of EnOcean GmbH. "But the response was overwhelming, and suddenly we had customers and had to form the company...
...work has “centered attention” on the history of how scientific knowledge is produced—particularly experimentation, time, and technology in the physical and biological sciences.Brandt calls a website Schmidgen co-developed in Berlin “fascinating.” The site, The Virtual Laboratory, displays handwritten letters, lab notebooks, textbooks, and other historical documents and images related to the experimental life sciences.Schmidgen’s students also say they appreciate the cultural nuances of attending a course taught by a foreign professor. They say their professor’s experience with labs...
...trademarked slanted “o’s” with, well, things that aren’t letters. After Google complained, Booble changed its presentation.More recently, Google proposed to scan several thousand books from the nation’s most prestigious institutions, including Harvard, to create a virtual library. Recalling his chat with the founders, Sidney Verba ’53, Carl H. Pforzheimer Uniersity Professor and Director of the Harvard University Library. had serious doubts over handling massive amounts of such delicate material: “I don’t know how to put this?...
Harvard Square has been home to some pretty bizarre residents—although none, it seems, as disturbing as a few virtual friends on Mass. Ave. Until recently, the two digital representations of real people enjoyed greeting passersby with a lively “Hey, you!” encouraging them to investigate home equity options as they walked past Sovereign Bank. Then, all of a sudden, they stopped talking. The Sovereign voices have been silent for over a week. The toothy grins, the crisper-than-a-Docker’s-commercial khakis—gone, boarded up. Naima Bensassi...