WE’RE getting closer and closer to making the stuff of science fiction a reality. How soon before we see robots in our homes, helping out with chores and stuff? Maybe sooner than we think.

Here are two videos from Reuters featuring two different approaches to building a robot.

Here’s a clip featuring Honda’s famous ASIMO.

And here’s a robot from an Indian inventor, who used parts from old cars and other junk to create what he hopes will be a robo-servant that will be affordable to more people.

CHECK out this video INQUIRER.net executive editor Leo Magno and reporter Alex Villafania took of Yahoo! Hack Day for iVDO, our online video channel in partnership with — guess who? — Yahoo!

And read Alex’s article for more details.

By Joey Alarilla
INQUIRER.net

UPDATE: As you can see, the widget works! Just edited this to add a screen grab of the Joost program I was watching — it’s from the IMF channel — and the widget.

ONE of my favorite apps, Joost, which I’ve been using since its by-invitation beta stage, is finally open to the public.

Joost, which is a peer-to-peer-based, broadcast-quality IPTV service, is free, but it does require a broadband connection. I’m blogging this using the Joost “Blog This” widget while watching this program. Let’s see if the widget works for our blog

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THERE’S thin… and there’s thin, as you can see from this photo. No, I’m not talking about the pretty model, but the TV

Check out this Reuters video of the world’s first OLED (organic light emitting diode) TV from Sony. The screen has a thickness of a mere three millimeters.

Read this Agence France-Press story for more info.

Photo courtesy of Agence France-Presse

By Lawrence Casiraya
INQUIRER.net

TAIWAN’S HTC introduced another touch-screen device called TyTN II, which runs on the Windows Mobile 6.0 operating system.

The TyTN II follows the previous HTC Touch, the first touch-screen device launched locally by distributor SiS Technologies in July.

The TyTN II descends from the previous Dopod line of smart phones. Dopod was acquired by HTC in May.

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