Posts Tagged ‘underwater’

Hydropolis: Underwater Hotel In Dubai

Sunday, July 6, 2008 23:08 No Comments

 
Well its seems that Dubai wants to become the capital of the world. They are gathering style, innovation and money in to this sand circled city. Dubai’s newest headline capturing building is the Hydropolis, an underground luxury hotel.
The hotel, which is currently under construction will feature a connecting tunnel back to the surface [...]

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Robofish: It Goes Where No Man Can

Monday, June 9, 2008 21:10 No Comments

Underwater robots so far had the disadvantage that they needed to surface often to communicate with the human controller. Kristi Morgansen of the University of Washington, has developed the Robofish, that communicate with other such robots and hence it conveyers the information without resurfacing. It is called Robofish as it is using a fish tale [...]

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One Million Word BillBoard By Sanyo And Saatchi

Wednesday, May 14, 2008 14:45 No Comments

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Working in an advertising house is certainly a big challenge that requires from the advert teams to often come up with innovative ideas to make an advert stand out. When a company asks an advertiser to promote a camera the result is usually a picture of the camera with a lot of technical stuff [...]

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AQUA Robot: Your Underwater Friend

Saturday, February 16, 2008 19:47 No Comments

AQUA is a robot that was designed commonly by the Universities of McGill, York and Dalhouse. Although there are other swimming robots the AQUA is the first one that has legs (it is amphibious) and has the capability of following humans so it will record and learn underwater paths.
See below a video from one of [...]

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