personality

'Don't shout at the robot!'

News Consumers thus will be able to download 'personality modules' and see how their Pleos react to different stimuli. A consumer, for example, could plug in 'hungry' and 'scared' and see how Pleo reacts to a hand in front of its nose when in those...

22 November 2006, 9:43

Stay connected with a cybertwin

News An Australian upstart on Monday introduced MyCyberTwin, an early version of software that lets people create and customise a virtual personality that can chat with others while they're offline. Capper describes the software as an extension of your...

3 April 2007, 10:11

News.blog: Letting your Xbox 360 loose on a blog

News If you'd like to give your Xbox 360 a little bit of personality, and creating your own games doesn't do it for you, maybe you should consider letting your video game console start a blog. Really! Washington Post writer Mike Musgrove has detailed...

1 September 2006, 10:38

Full-time blogger aborts project

News He said he hasn't managed to attract enough readers or developed "a sufficient cult of personality" to support the subscription model. Jason Kottke, a Web designer who quit his job to run his blog full-time, has abandoned his plan to make a living...

24 February 2006, 10:09

Future robots -- our invisible friends?

News Assistive intelligence is a different kind of artificial intelligence which does not have a standalone container or personality, but adapts to particular tasks and could be used in many different sorts of devices.

12 September 2007, 8:52

NASA looks to carbon to lighten spacecraft

News Unfortunately, each one has a personality of its own. Copper wires weigh a lot, so NASA is teaming up with Rice University to develop power cables out of carbon nanotubes to lighten the load in spacecraft.

29 April 2005, 8:03

News.blog: 'Guitar Hero III' setlist unfolds

News Cult of Personality (Living Colour) A partial tracklist for the long-awaited third instalment of Guitar Hero was released by Activision yesterday. As usual, the 11-song list offers a nice blend of time-tested rock anthems by the Rolling Stones, Fog...

24 May 2007, 9:26

Sony exec: customisation key for PS3

News Today's gamer wants to customise their games to fit their own personality and style and [wants] games to be more interactive than ever before," Denny said. Games will need to provide a variety of add-on options and keep on developing after their...

6 October 2006, 9:26

Photos: Celebrating the life of James Kim

News Other speakers at the bittersweet service included Kim's wife, Kati, who was rescued along with the Kims' two daughters; his sister, Eva Kim; his childhood friend, Kyle Moldrem; and Andrew Hawn, Kim's supervisor at TechTV, where he worked as an on...

21 February 2007, 10:12

News.blog: Frag Dolls auditions, day two

News That was important, since the judges were looking to see who could stay cool under pressure, play well and showcase the feisty and communicative personality they sought in a Frag Doll. It was Sunday 2 April, and some of the best videogame players...

3 May 2006, 9:44

Photos: Happy hour with robots

News It's all about the flair, the atmosphere and the personality that a robot can have," Magnus Wurzer, who helped launch Roboexotica in 1999, told Reuters. That, more or less, is the notion behind Roboexotica, an annual event in Vienna, Austria, at...

11 December 2006, 10:10

News.blog: Gadgets with high 'wife appeal'

News WAF now has a deeper side -- personality counts now, too. A few years back, I wrote a blatantly sexist column entitled 'Taking the sting out of the whip', which addressed the then-relatively new phenomenon known as Wife-Acceptance Factor, or WAF...

30 October 2006, 10:17

Tomorrow's games, designed by gamers

News Players will control a species at it evolves from single-cell organism all the way to interstellar space-travelling 'Galactic God', creating the look and personality of the species and, later on, the tools, cities and even planets they use and...

3 February 2006, 11:25

Photos: Breaking open R2-D2

News He's very responsive and full of personality. Hasbro's interactive R2-D2 stands about 16 inches tall. Shiny and sharp, this R2 replica could easily be mistaken for the real thing if he were photographed without a reference for his size.

Tags: module, navigation, recognition, body

2 January 2008, 9:33

CNET.com editor found dead

News Formerly, he was an on-air personality on the now-defunct cable television network TechTV. Kim had been missing in the remote southwestern Oregon wilderness for 11 days and was found at approximately noon on Wednesday about half a mile from the...

7 December 2006, 10:23