The Wroclaw University of Technology built the three robot heads and produced this video before shipping two of them to Heriot-Watt University (Edimburgh) and INESC-ID (Portugal). This work was conducted in the scope of the LIREC project (Living with Robots and Interactive Companions,  http://lirec.eu/).

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The Santa Claus Detector - A children’s Christmas Stocking device useful for visually signaling the arrival of Santa Claus by illuminating an externally visible light source having a power source located within said device.

I wonder why no one licensed this invention by Thomas Cane protected by US patent 5523741 issued on June 1996…

5523741_Santa_Claus_Detector.pdf (201 […]

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Another interesting article in The Economist: the disposable academic - why doing a PhD is often a waist of time.Although the author is mostly right I think she misses the point that PhD students can also become entrepreneurs: they master a technology and, contrary to most academics, they have the incentives to take it to […]

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Artigo na revista INGENIUM editada pela Ordem dos Engenheiros.
Ler a revista completa.

artigo-lco-ingenium.pdf (236 KB)View this on posterous

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Another Engineering Competition organized by the IST group of the Board of European Students of Technology (BEST, http://best.ist.utl.pt/). This time the task was to build a device capable of starting from rest in a given horizontal surface and traveling along that surface and down a given inclined plane, using the energy provided by the […]

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Depois do espectáculo a solo, Mário Laginha regressa ao Técnico com Bernado Moreira (contrabaixo) e Alexandre Frazão (bateria). Concerto basedo no último disco, Mongrel (mestiço, rafeiro), onde Mário Laginha apresenta peças de Chopin "arraçadas" de Jazz. Juntou também algumas obras de discos anteriores entre as quais Fado que há três dias tinha tocado sozinho.

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Seis composições concluídas com um improviso de mais de 7 minutos. Mais uma sala cheia na III Temporada de Música do IST.

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Phonetic Arts was created in 2006 by Paul Taylor and produced tools to use speech synthesis technologies in computer games (http://www.phonetic-arts.com)

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…to attend the 4th pan-European Intellectual Property summit. In 212 participants I can only find 6 from Portugal: 2 from IST, 2 from INPI, a 2 from the law firm BAPTISTA, MONTEVERDE & ASSOCIADOS. There are only 4 participants from Universities. Too few for matters such as the EU Patent, Research and Public Private Patents, IP Brokerage, […]

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