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HOMEPOD MINI GETS NEW COLORS Apple updates the HomePod Mini with new colors and releases a new Apple Music sound pack that Siri can use to control your Apple Music subscription Image credit- Apple Apple today introduced the HomePod mini in three bold new colors – yellow, orange, and blue – giving consumers more options to express their individuality and style in any room. At just 3.3 inches, the HomePod mini offers a great music listening experience, Siri intelligence, and smart home functionality with built-in privacy and security. Its seamless integration with Apple products and services makes the HomePod mini the ultimate smart speaker for anyone with an Apple device. The HomePod mini will be available in these new colors in addition to white and cosmic gray starting in November for just $99 with color-accurate details everywhere, including colored touch surfaces, mesh fabric, volume icons, and power cord fabric. "The HomePod mini sounds great, and with access to over 90 millio...

  LEO THE HOPING, FLYING AND SKATING ROBOT   Meet LEO: a robot that can walk on two legs, fly, hop, skateboard, and even slackline .  Caltech This combination of drones and traditional robots was developed by a team at the Caltech Center for Autonomous Systems and Technologies, and its creators claim that LEO is the first legged robot with multiple joints and propeller motors that help it fly and enable it to do things. high balance control. They describe the breadth of LEO's capabilities and potential in a new article published this week in Science Robotics. Caltech engineers modeled the design of the LEO, short for LEONARDO (LEGS ONboard drOne), after a bird that can move and maneuver with relative ease in different environments. "Think about how birds can swing and jump to move on telephone lines," said Son-Joe Chung, newspaper writer and professor at Caltech, in a press release. "The complex yet interesting behavior occurs when birds move between walking and flyi...

 GOOGLE PIXEL 6 AND PIXEL 6 PRO WILL LAUNCH ON OCTOBER 19 It's official - the Google Pixel 6 series launches on October 19 at 10 a.m. PT. After months of leaks and rumors and jokes from Google itself, the biggest single upgrade in the Pixel smartphone series has a confirmed launch date Image Credit- Google Google announced that the live broadcast will not be a live event but will be pre-recorded and if you miss it, you can watch it any time. The Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro will launch with Google's first custom mobile chip called Tensor. It was revealed that the Tensor chip is an octa-core processor and will have an Exynos 5G modem, ultra-wideband support, and Wi-Fi 6E. The Pixel 6 series will have a 120 Hz display with an under-display fingerprint scanner and a hole in the middle. The Pro model has three rear cameras, while the standard model has two rear cameras. The phone is also reported to support faster charging and Google will announce a new Pixel Stand wireless charger late...

 ASUS ANOUNCES GEFORCE RTX 3070 NOCTUA EDITION GRAPHICS CARD.    The GPU will be out later this month Image ASUS Earlier this week, leaked images of a very Brown Asus GeForce RTX 3070 Noctua Edition were discovered, leading to speculation as to whether we'll see it any time soon. Asus has officially announced the Noctua cooling specialist team, introducing the Asus GeForce RTX 3070 Noctua Edition along with an overclocked version, the 3070 Noctua OC Edition, which will be released this month. One thing Noctua is known for, along with its excellent design and engineering team who deliver high quality air conditioning products, is the brown/beige color scheme. Some users may resent non-standard and non-traditional colors that are rarely combined with other colors on their computer, so avoid Noctua and look elsewhere. Others swear by the design and ASUS went a step further and worked with Noctua to develop the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 graphics card into one of the coolest and...

 WEARABLE DEVICE USES SMALL MAGNETS TO GENERATE ELECTRICITY UCLA's self powered,stretchable,waterproof,soft magnetoelastic generator Jun Chen UCLA While we've heard a lot about wearable piezoelectric devices that generate electricity from the movement of people, they don't work well under certain conditions. However, a new transport of bioelectric energy could attract attention where it failed While piezoelectric devices generate an electric current when pressed or pushed, this new tool is a little different. It uses the so-called magnetoelastic effect, in which the magnets in a material are compressed and separated by mechanical stress, creating an electric current with a change in the strength of that material's magnetic field. In the past, magnetoelastic generators were made of hard metal alloys that were too hard to fit comfortably on the body. However, under the direction of Assistant Professor Jun Chen, the team at UCLA has developed a model that is soft and flexi...

GITAMINI IS A COMPACT CARGO CARRYING ROBOT THAT FOLLOWS ITS LEADER WHEREVER HE WANDERS. GITAMINI CAN CARRY UPTO 20 POUNDS AND GO 21 MILES. Back in 2019, Boston-based Piaggio Fast Forward launched the first iteration of an automated pedestrian Cargo Hauler called the Gita (pronounced JEE-tah). Two years and many design improvements later, PFF will be releasing a smaller and cooler version called Gitamini in October. With a payload of up to 2,000 cubic inches and a capacity of up to 44 pounds of equipment and a top speed of 22 mph, the original Gita was an incredibly large machine that could accommodate a grocery cart and keep up with cyclists. However, the size of the Gita forces it to confront other pedestrians while walking on crowded sidewalks, especially the earlier versions which relied on a belt-mounted tracker to know where their owner was. The Gitamini, on the other hand, is the size of a border patrol vehicle (990 cubic inches of cargo space) and weighs just 28 pounds. It can ...