Stories by: Kevin Lee

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Coming soon: A 12-foot-tall robot you can ride and steer 15 May, 2012 07:17:00

Here at GeekTech, we cover a lot of advanced robots, but what we really want to see is progress in the exoskeleton front (think Iron Man suit). Meet Vaudeville (sometimes called Kuratasu), a 12-foot-tall, five-ton mech that you can get inside of and control like a real Mobile Suit.
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Researchers build a robot you can’t knock down; Robot apocalypse begins 09 May, 2012 03:09:00

After all of our advancements in walking robots, we still have yet to see one that can pick itself back up. Current automatons either need to be helped back up or specifically designed to do so.
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Microsoft develops a faster touchscreen with only one millisecond of lag 14 March, 2012 06:04:00

Touchscreens are supposed to offer us the most direct finger-to-screen interaction with our devices, but have you ever noticed that it takes a split second for something to actually happen?
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YouTube and NBC will live-stream the entire 2012 Summer Olympics 09 March, 2012 07:15:00

This coming July, you'll be able to watch the entire Olympic Games as they happen for the first time ever. NBC and YouTube are partnering up to live-stream the entire London 2012 Summer Olympics.
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RankMyHack Adds Leaderboards, Achievement Points to Hacking 02 September, 2011 06:59:00

Hacking has gone the way of FourSquare and gaming in general by adding scores and leaderboards for who can make the most daring hacks. We're not making this up.
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IBM builds 120-petabyte storage system 27 August, 2011 04:14:00

IBM is shattering world tech records again, this time the company's researchers have built the largest ever storage system setup. Coming in at 120-petbytes (120 million gigabytes), the ludicrous data storage rig is made up of 200,000 conventional hard drive disks set up at IBM's Almaden, California, research lab.
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Super Wi-Fi has 100km range, is coming to save the day 29 July, 2011 07:14:00

Super Wi-Fi is inching closer to reality, and now the IEEE, the standards organization responsible for all things Wi-Fi, has published the IEEE 802.22 standard.
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It takes 1m ARM processors to make 1b brain neurons 13 July, 2011 03:42:00

A group of British researchers led by the daddy of the ARM processor, normally found in smartphones, went to find out how many how many neurons can an ARM chip simulate.
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MIT Develops Electronic Glasses That Can Read Emotions 07 July, 2011 06:58:00

Mind-reading still might be a ways off, but the MIT Media Lab has come up with spectacles that can read a person's emotions. These social X-ray specs have a built-in camera linked to software that analyzes facial expressions.
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So long and goodbye, Spirit rover 26 May, 2011 03:34:00

NASA is ending attempts to contact the long-lived Mars Exploration Rover Spirit after communications stopped on March 22, 2010.
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Solar-Powered Plane Completes International Flight 17 May, 2011 04:17:00

The solar eagle has landed onto record history, with the Solar Impulse setting down at Brussels' main airport, after a 13-hour international flight on May 12th. The historic flight began in Switzerland at 8:40 (11:40 p.m PST), cruised at 12,400 feet going an average 43 mph, and finally land at in Belgium at 21:38 (12:38 p.m. PST).