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SOLUTION TO CROSSWORD

It seems everyone’s at it these days — taking selfi es and then showing them off on social media. And now your fridge is about to join in on the fun.

A new breed of high-tech refrigera-tors are fi tted with cameras that take “shelfi es” of their contents and send them to your phone.

The idea is that busy homeowners can keep better track of groceries so they don’t waste food by doubling up on items at the supermarket.

The snaps from inside the fridge could also mean the end of the hastily scribbled grocery list, as shoppers can see instantly what they need.

The smart gadgets join the ranks of other intelligent refrigerators that

can top up your online shopping order, suggest recipes and even switch on the oven.

According to retailer John Lewis, sales of the “shelfi e” fridges have risen threefold this year alone, and are help-ing revolutionize the way we shop.

The Samsung Family Hub, for example, has three cameras that take

a picture of the shelves every time the door closes and automatically sends them to your phone. The cameras are fi tted into the top, middle and bottom of the door and take pictures just before the fridge light turns off.

Like the Samsung fridge, the Bosch Home Connect fridge sends you pho-tographs of the contents of your fridge and will even send alerts to your phone if you accidentally leave the door open.

Billed as “the fi rst fridge to take a selfi e,” Bosch says it gives you “full con-trol over your supplies, and when you’re not at home you will know exactly which ingredients* are still missing for the dinner you’re planning.” (SD-Agencies)

Smart fridge sends you ‘shelfi es’ “会自拍”的智能冰箱

It was the craze that gripped children around the world this year, but now it seems that fi dget spinners have been taken to a whole new level.

Designers have cre-ated a fully working fi dget spinner phone, complete with a keypad, screen and Bluetooth capabilities. The phone, dubbed K118, costs just US$19 and is available to buy on Amazon.

The K118 was designed by Hong Kong-based Chilli International and is avail-able in six colors. It features a small one-inch screen and keyboard, separated by a thumb pad allowing you to spin the device. And while the phone doesn’t have the same capabilities as most on the market, it does have 32MB storage and Bluetooth capabilities.

Since fi dget spinners became the must-have toy this summer, several inno-vative versions have been released. In August, Japan-based NSK Micro Precision revealed the “Rolls Royce” of fi dget spinners in the form of a gadget that whirls for a record 12 minutes.

(SD-Agencies)

Fidget spinner phone in HK减压神器指尖陀螺手机发售

A hospital’s new robots are running errands* for nurses and can replace the work of up to four people each.

The eight robots, all called Noah, move around in Guangzhou Women and Children’s Hospital, carry-ing documents, medicine and surgical* equipment weighing up to 330kg.

Using GPS* technology, a Noah bot is able to navigate the hospital’s complex wings with ease and can carry 10 times as much as one human staff member.

Zhang Zhiyao, the hospi-tal’s vice dean of medicine, said the robots are still in their trial phase and are cur-rently only running errands between the center’s phar-macy and the nurses station but have the potential to do much more.

The intelligent Noah bots are programmed with

phrases such as “Here I go,” “I’m entering the lift” and “I’ve been obstructed*” to notify their human colleagues of their movements.

The helpers are worth at least US$100,000 and are comprised of more than 150 core patents.

The wheeled and lockable cabinet hauled around by the robots guarantees con-tamination-free* transport of vital hospital equipment and medication, greatly lowering the risk of human error.

The developers are work-ing on Noah’s visual function and ability to interact with people. (SD-Agencies)

Robots more produc! ve than nurses 医院机器人会说话会送药

At fi rst glance, you might mistake this enormous robot for a character from the latest “Transformers” blockbuster*.

But, the fi ve-meter tall machine is a U.S. robot called “Eagle Prime” that is now ready to take on Japan’s Kuratas robot in the MegaBots Giant Robot Duel* today.

The Eagle Prime was cre-ated by San Francisco-based MegaBots, who set up the Giant Robot Duel League in 2015.

On its website, MegaBots said: “MegaBots uses cut-ting-edge* robotics tech-nology to create the giant

piloted* fi ghting robots of science fi ction, video games and movies. These robots fi ght in epic-scale arena combat, the likes of which the world has never seen before.”

The Eagle Prime weighs 12 tons and has 430 horse-power. A human operator sits within the “head” of the robot, controlling its movements.

Despite its enormous size, Eagle Prime is faster than you might think.

In a video, Eagle Prime can be seen opening giant garage doors, quickly maneuvering* corners, demolishing* piles of barrels

and even blasting targets with its paintball cannon.

MegaBots said: “As the robots battle, armor panels shear off* and litter the fi eld, smoke and sparks pour out of the chassis*, massive robotic limbs tear off, and robots crumple to the ground until only one is left standing.”

In 2015, after MegaBots challenged Japan’s Suido-bashi Heavy Industries to a giant robot duel, Suido-bashi quickly accepted and revealed an early version of the robot Kuratas, which included a gun capable of shooting 6,000 BB bullets a minute. (SD-Agencies)

Eagle Prime, Kuratas in giant robot battle

全球两大格斗机器人开战全球两大格斗机器人开战