Studios Battle to Save Narnia (From Grip of Sequel Fatigue)

If “The Voyage of the Dawn Treader” does not succeed, it is unlikely that the remaining four books in the series will be produced.

Studios Battle to Save Narnia (From Grip of Sequel Fatigue)

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Samsung Promotes Scions as Lee Family Tightens Grip

Dec. 3 (Bloomberg) -- Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest maker of televisions and flat screens, promoted the chairman’s son to president as the founding family tightens its grip on South Korea’s biggest industrial group.

Samsung Promotes Scions as Lee Family Tightens Grip

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Samsung Promotes Scions as Founding Family Tightens Grip

Dec. 3 (Bloomberg) -- Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest maker of televisions and flat screens, promoted the chairman’s son to president as the founding family tightens its grip on South Korea’s largest industrial group.

Samsung Promotes Scions as Founding Family Tightens Grip

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Shape-shifting robot can grip differently-shaped items

Video link. The Jambot is a shape-changing robotic prototype being developed by a team led by University of Chicago Physicist Heinrich Jaeger and his group through a DARPA initiative. Also involved is iRobot, the company best known for the Roomba. He and [colleague Eric] Brown have designed a gripper using jamming and flexible structures that could replace a robotic claw. A typical claw needs hinges, motors, and feedback sensors to prevent it from crushing the object it's trying to hold, and the computational power to operate them. But Jaeger's jamming-based gripper is more like a beanbag, flowing around the object and then holding it gently. "We came at this from a completely different perspective," he says, "looking for a way to short-circuit this inherent complexity." For those want to try a HOWTO, Carlos Asmat, Jr. has a cool web entry and video of his DIY version of the gripper using a balloon, tubing, cloth, a rubber band, and ground coffee. (via University of Chicago Magazine)...

Shape-shifting robot can grip differently-shaped items

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