1. Toshiba's ApriPoco, a 8.4-inch tall robot that owners can use to control electrical appliances equipped with infrared through verbal commands.
"Of course, he can't actually move his hand, but the motor cortex in his brain can still issue the command and generate electrical waves in his brain".
Actually it is the disguised entrance to the "Temple of Man," a five-story underground warren of vast, ornately decorated chambers, with towering pillars, 40-foot-high gold-leaf ceilings, giant frescoes and bronze statues, all linked by narrow passages and concealed stone doors that spring open and shut by electrical command.
Deep in Sadr City, a few minutes' drive past the final government checkpoints, Mahdi fighters in recent days had been openly laying electrical command wires across streets and sitting guard on street corners beside caches of assault rifles and rocket-propelled grenade launchers.
The new setup is aimed at reducing clearance leakages and at improving the dynamic response of the needle to the electrical command.
Boxes containing small embedded computers in the console and near the windchests translate console commands into fast serial data for the cable, and back into electrical commands at the windchest[s].
Its essence is a digital fly-by-wire apparatus; the plane is controlled by commands sent through electrical wires.
Perhaps the best-known example is the X-10 system, which dates from 1977 and uses existing household wiring as a conduit for sending commands to turn electrical devices on and off.
Best Boy: Not "Best Best Boy" (the "best boy" on a movie being the second-in-command in the electrical and grip departments) but best young male actor, and it's a tight contest, between Jared Gilman, of "Moonrise Kingdom," and Jules Brown, of "Red Hook Summer".
