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CORRECTED-Cisco shelves home telepresence amid company revamp – CNBC
37 days ago
by Telepresence - Bing News
(Paragraph 4 should read, “As of Wednesday afternoon …”) * Umi system will no longer be sold * Existing customers will still be able to make calls * Second consumer product to be shut down as part of revamp Jan 4 (Reuters) – Network equipment maker Cisco … Share and Enjoy:
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Man Hacks Together Kinect, Wii, Video Goggles, Treadmill And Little Robot To ...
38 days ago
Because using your real-life hand is just far too simple and inexpensive, Taylor Veltrop managed to hack together an XBox Kinect, Wii, head-mounted video goggles, a little treadmill and a $16,000 robot to remotely groom a cat. Wow, the cat looks thrilled about it too. In Veltrop's setup, the HMD pro ...
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Kinect and Wii Used to Waldo a Nao Robot to Brush a Cat, Imagine What’s Next
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38 days ago
by Kit Dotson
In what some might call an unholy tandem, a Microsoft Kinect and Nintendo Wii have been hybridized together to permit a man—in this case software engineer Taylor Veltrop—to remotely brush his cat via 23-inch-tall robotic surrogate. To make this happen, Veltrop hacked together a Kinect, two Wiimotes, ...
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Cisco hangs up on Umi ‘Personal Telepresence’ flop
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38 days ago
by admin
A whole individual box and distant just for movie chat? For as much as $600, plus a $10 monthly ongoing (HDTV and high speed high speed internet not included)? It was always unlikely whether the Umi telepresence kit would get on, but now ‘cisco’ has smashed those worries by gently bashing both the 1 ...
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Cisco pulls another Flip, stops selling Umi telepresence units
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38 days ago
by Ryan Kim
Cisco’s move into living room video conferencing with its Umi product never got going, hampered by a high price and competition from free alternatives like Skype. Now Cisco has confirmed that it is no longer selling the consumer telepresence gear, though it will continue to support existing users. T ...
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Cisco hangs up on Umi 'Personal Telepresence' flop
// technology
38 days ago
by Sharif Sakr
A whole separate box and remote just for video chat? For as much as $600, plus a $10 per month subscription (HDTV and broadband not included)? It was always doubtful whether the Umi telepresence kit would catch on, but now Cisco has crushed those doubts by quietly crushing both the 1080p and cheaper ...
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