I'd rather play golf

Recently Ian McHardy upgraded the IvanAnywhere telepresence robot with a new Toshiba Portege M700 tablet PC running Windows XP. The new tablet has significantly more CPU horsepower than the one it replaced, so audio/video quality has improved and Skype connections are dropped much less frequently. Interestingly, the disk in the new tablet had a feature, [...]

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The people at Space TV in Toronto have placed our interview on “The Circuit” online on their website. You can follow this link: Scroll to about the 1-minute point and you’ll get to see IvanAnywhere in action.

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For those of you who are already tired of Leafs TV after one preseason game – the Leafs play an exhibition game in Toronto last night with free tickets, courtesy of Coca-Cola, and there are still 5,000 empty seats, go figure – permit me to suggest some alternative viewing. SPACE TV will broadcast an interview [...]

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While Leslie and I were on holiday in France, Toronto’s Globe and Mail newspaper published a two-page spread about Ivan’s robot that he uses here at the office, which we’ve called IvanAnywhere. And thanks to everyone for their best wishes while we were overseas. I’ve already been asked what we liked best about France, and [...]

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A few weeks ago, staff reporter Chris Gaylord of the Christian Science Monitor flew up from Boston to chat with Ivan, Ian, and myself about the IvanAnywhere robot, and what our experiences have been after a year in “production”. Here’s a link to the article: http://features.csmonitor.com/innovation/2008/05/23/send-your-robot-to-work/

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One of the neat things about the IvanAnywhere robot is that it runs a SQL Anywhere 10.0.1 database server right on the tablet, and I can connect to it from my laptop whenever I need to. It brings a whole new meaning to the term Mobile Database because it’s actually the database server that moves. [...]

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