At the FOOMA Japan event last week, Laskmi-Do demoed a contraption called the Table Robot.  The Table Robot has two wheels and self-balances.  It can easily be compared to a Segway, but this robot can be controlled with a remote control.  Laskmi-Do also plans on making the Table Robot voice-activated.

[via Engadget/DigInfo]

Logitech has introduced a new mouse called the M555b.  This mouse is powered with Bluetooth and features hyper-scrolling capabilities.  There is also a low battery indicating light.  Personally I prefer to directly connect mice and not have to worry about charging a mouse for it to work, but some people prefer not having a wire.  The M555b will retail for $60 later this month.

[via Gizmodo]

Flint, Michigan is in rough shape right now with General Motors filing for bankruptcy and thousands becoming unemployed in the process.  Many of the biggest employers in the city were automotive plants, but that may change in the near future.  The city will soon be building the country’s first biogas plants.

The biogas plant will be built by Swedish Biogas International.  Biogas is the production of gas using the biological breakdown of organic matter including human waste.  Biogas would be used to power the city’s vehicle fleet.  The plant was announced last September when the King of Sweden spoke at Kettering University.

The plant will cost about $8 to $10 million to be built and construction has not started as of yet.  The construction is expected sometime this August.

[via CrunchGear]

CorrectMyText.com is a website service where you can verify whether what you are writing in a different language is accurate. People that can speak the language that you are writing in natively will verify everything.  As of right now the languages that are supposed on CorrectMyText.com include Russian, English, French, German, Chinese, Japanese, Spanish, Korean, Portuguese, and Italian.

When checking out CorrectMyText.com, you are encouraged to create an account and then copy and then select the text language that you have written an excerpt in.  After that you submit it and it remains in the queue of “Texts for correction.”  After submission and tagging, there will be several processing categories that the excerpt will be associated with: processing, ready corrections, and remains corrections.

When corrections are made, CorrectMyText reports which users helped fix the grammar and spelling of the language conversion.

Who would this service be useful to?  Considering that America is a huge melting pot and many people come from overseas, they may not always have the strongest English.  As a matter of fact, my high school required foreigners to take English as a Second Language (ESL) classes if the school’s administration noticed that they were struggling.

Having good language skills have a direct correlation with how successful one can become career-wise.  And sometimes using language conversion software can be unreliable.  Asking native people to help with conversion is a lot more authentic and reliable.  Even Facebook asked users to help convert the English language of their website into the foreign languages that they offer the social network in today.  It’s a proven system.

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The GPS Tracking Key is a pocket-sized device that receives signals from the 24 GPS Department of Defense satellites orbiting around the Earth.  The device detects your exact location within 2.5 meters and records it every second.  The GPS Tracking Key can be even be connected to Google Earth.

“We use one of the most sensitive GPS receivers on the market.  It gives us 2.5 meter accuracy plus or minus roughly 6 feet accuracy,” stated Land Air Sea Systems Vice President Steven Moehling in an interview.

The GPS Tracking Key was recently used to solve a murder case. On July 7, George Ford was arrested in Chenango County New York for the death of 12 year old girl Shyanne Somers. Ford was charged with reckless endangerment. But then authorities had found out there was a GPS tracking key in his car.

Ford’s wife put the tracking key in his truck because she believed her husband was having an affair. Because of the information taken from the GPS tracking key, Ford is now being charged with murder.

LandAirSea Systems Inc. started back in 1994 and has been at the forefront of GPS tracking equipment. All of their devices go through extensive engineering and testing. There are thousands of law enforcement agencies and consumers using the GPS Tracking Key on a daily basis. The GPS Tracking Key can be bought from TrackingKey.com for $199.

Below is a video report of the incident:

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One year ago, Adobe announced a new service called Acrobat.com.  This service was intended to rival Google Docs, Zoho, and Microsoft Office Online.  Adobe has been working diligently at advancing the online document collaboration service and they have announced that they are no longer in Beta.

Adobe also announced that they now have business subscriptions and have designed advanced tools for building PDFs, presentations, documents, spreadsheets, etc.  Acrobat.com relies heavily on Adobe Flash for the service.

Below is a list of the services within Acrobat.com
Buzzword: Works very similar to Microsoft Word and Google Docs.  Adobe bought out Buzzword in 2007.
Spreadsheets: Spreadsheets was released earlier today and allows multiple people to create spreadsheets.
Presentations: This service was released in late May and allows users to collaborate on presentations that work similarly to Microsoft PowerPoint.
Create PDF/Share: A service that allows users to create and share PDF documents.
ConnectNow: Virtual meeting service and allows users to share access to desktops.

The Basic service costs $14 per month and the Plus service runs for $39 per month.  The Plus service has no limit on the number of people that can collaborate on a document.  Acrobat.com currently has about 5 million accounts on the service.

[via Mashable]

YuMe is a video advertising network company founded by Jayant Kadambi and Ayyappan Sankaran.  Since the company started in March 2007, YuMe raised about $19 million.  In the last round of funding, YuMe raised $2.9 million out of a $4.5 million round.

The investors in this round were not disclosed.  The previous investors include Accel Partners, Khosla Ventures, BV Capital, and DAG Ventures.  The company said that they plan on using the funding for copany expansion.  YuMe already has a deal in place to power the advertising on Microsoft’s video websites.

[via VentureBeat]

The Nokia E72 is the successor to the Nokia E71.  The E72 has a QWERTY keyboard, optical navigation key, and the ability to make the phone into a flashlight by pressing the space bar.

The camera on the E72 is 5 megapixels and has a built-in flash.  The E71 had a 3.2 megapixel so this is a major improvement in image quality.

In terms of plugging in headphones, there is a 3.5 mm headphone jack which was not available in the E71.  The audio has an active noise cancellation feature to make calls more clear.

The E72 has a 3G data connection and has 3.6 Mbps HSDPA.  The downlink speed is about 10.2Mbps and the uplink speed can hit up to 2Mbps.

The phone will be available in 3Q of this year and will cost 350 Euros before tax and subsidies.  No word on the phone’s availability and price in the U.S. as of yet.

[via CNET]