The Future of Humanoid Robotics

WowWee Robotics has unveiled Robosapien V2, the first affordable consumer robot to see, hear, feel and interact with both people and the surrounding environment. The 22-inch Robosapien V2 is packed with advanced dynamic motion, interactive sensors and 100 preprogrammed functions and speech capability. It can say up to 160 unique phrases.

Advanced agility allows Robosapien V2 to move like a human. Its articulated waist, shoulders, wrists and hands give it a full range of motion that allow it to pick up, drop and throw objects; sit, twist from side to side, bend, lie down sit up and stand up again.

With its unique color vision system, Robosapien V2 is able to recognize color and therefore differentiate between a human and an object. It can identify red, green and blue objects and can also recognize skin-tones. When it identifies a human, the robot might wave or try to shake hands.

Robosapien V2 is fully programmable, allowing scripted movements and animations. It can be programmed six different ways: Three ways in controller program mode and three ways in positional program mode. The benefit of its multiprogramming modes is that it can hold up to six pre-programmed routines in its memory at any given time. Robosapien V2 is priced at $250. For more information click to www.robosapienv2online.com.

Register .Job Domain Now

Dotster, Inc., an ICANN-accredited domain registrar, is offering domain registrations with the .Jobs extension. Until Dec. 1, 2005, Dotster will offer the lowest application fee in the industry for this specialized domain extension at $25. Dotster’s regular annual pricing for .Jobs domains is $179.95.

.Jobs is a sponsored top-level domain (sTLD) created through a partnership with the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM). It is intended for use by companies and organizations posting available employment openings to make online job seeking faster, easier and more uniform worldwide. To learn more about .Jobs, visit www.dotster.com/tld_jobs.php.

The intended use is for organizations to register a version of their corporate names in the .Jobs domain, such as www.shrm.jobs. This provides job-seekers with an exact online destination for available openings that is separate from general corporate and marketing-related sites. Instead of foraging through entire websites of specific firms searching for a “careers” section, a job-seeker can go to a recruitment entity’s .Jobs website and easily find employment information.

.Jobs is available to any company looking to showcase its hiring opportunities on the Internet, and is restricted to employment-related sites only. The requirements of .Jobs applications prevent abuses by limiting registrations to names derived from the official corporate name of the registrant.

SMS Application to Boost Recruitment

In just two months of operation, Job Text Alert already promises to become one of the fastest growing services in the recruitment industry. Smart Messaging Solution Ltd., the company behind the concept, boasts a global database of over 80,000 job-seekers.

Job Text Alert is a worldwide recruitment solution which uses the latest in mobile phone technology to make it easier, faster and more affordable for recruitment agencies and employers to find and recruit job-seekers. The service enables recruitment agencies and employers to send text message alerts instantly to the mobile phones of job-seekers to promote their job offers.

Job Text Alert is free to job-seekers. However, recruitment agencies and employers must pay a fee of $0.30-$0.50 per text to send alerts to matching candidates. Information on Job Text Alert can be found at http://www.jobtextalert.com.

Book Shows All the iPod Tricks

Lots of people have an iPod, but do they really know how to use it? Give them the gift of knowledge. “The iPod Book: Doing Cool Stuff With the iPod and the iTunes Music Store” (ISBN: 0-321-42228-7) was recently updated and re-released with hundreds of tips and tricks for every iPod, including the new video-enabled iPod, the new iPod Nano, the new ROKR iTunes-enabled cell phone and iTunes V.6. The book is basically a “tell-me-how-to-do-it” guide to all the coolest, most requested features and functions of the iPod, written in plain English. Priced at $19.99, learn more about it at www.scottkelbybooks.com.