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Check out Google Maps walking directions!

Google Maps has just added a fun (and extremely useful) new feature - walking directions. Simply type in the address you'd like to walk from and to, and you'll see a link for "walking directions". You'll have to enter in specific addresses at this point in time; I'm hoping that Google will soon be giving us the ability to find popular walking trails in our local area.

Tourist Tracks launches MP3 Walking Tour of Ely

Visitors to Ely can now enjoy a walking tour of the city and its cathedral using their very own iPod or MP3 player. Tourist Tracks has added Ely to its growing portfolio of destinations in the UK featuring a downloadable MP3 walking tour. The Ely tour pack contains two tours - one of the city and one of the interior of the cathedral (a separate entrance fee is payable). The city tour is a 60-minute stroll giving visitors the opportunity to discover the history behind the city's name, its origins as an island and walk along the banks of the River Ouse.

PhD Student Makes World's "Most Advanced" Walking Robot

Delft (Netherlands) - A PhD student at the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands has constructed what he says is the world’s most advanced walking biped robot. Daan Hobbelen, who will receive his PhD on May 30th, created the "Flame" robot to help study how humans walk. He discovered that robot walking can actually be fairly energy efficient and doesn’t have to be the typical "falling forward" approach that many of the other robots employ.

The Circuit City Train Wreck: Kudos to Blockbuster for Walking Away

by walking away from the train wreck that is Circuit City (CC); after all what does sense does it make sense to invest in a failing business when your own company is struggling to make money.

Primates: climbing or walking?

Washington - Scientists have long thought that walking is easier than climbing for primates - explaining why we humans ended up on our feet all the time.

Climbing easy as walking for some primates

A U.S. study shows climbing is as easy as walking for smaller primates, who expend no more energy for either activity.

Climbing easy as walking for some primates

A U.S. study shows climbing is as easy as walking for smaller primates, who expend no more energy for either activity.

Climbing just as easy as walking for some primates: study

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Scientists have long thought that walking is easier than climbing for primates -- explaining why we humans ended up on our feet all the time.

Climbing just as easy as walking for some primates: study

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Scientists have long thought that walking is easier than climbing for primates -- explaining why we humans ended up on our feet all the time.

Climbing As Easy As Walking For Smaller Primates

Smaller primates expend no more energy climbing than they do walking, Duke University researchers have found. This surprising discovery may explain the evolutionary edge that encouraged the tiny ancestors of modern humans, apes and monkeys to climb into the trees about 65 million years ago and stay there.

Google Maps takes steps towards walking directions

Google Maps is starting to roll out a beta of walking directions in addition to driving directions, the Google Operating System fan blog noticed on Monday.

Google Maps Adds Walking Directions, Bad Neighborhood Caution

If you drive a car in certain cities, you're dumb. There, I said it. But that's how Google Maps assumed everybody locomoted to their destination, until now. Yep! Google Maps finally has an option for step-by-step walking directions. Accounting for the speed difference between your kicks and four-wheeled gas-guzzlers, it estimates covering a mile will take about 19 minutes. And it says to use caution in dicey areas (I guess you'll be routed around them as it's updated?). Hopefully this gets added to the iPhone's maps in the next update, dodging cars on the BQE is exhausting. [Google Maps via Search Engine Roundtable via Lifehacker]

TU Delft Robot Flame Walks Like A Human

Researcher Daan Hobbelen of TU Delft has developed a new, highly-advanced walking robot: Flame. This type of research, for which Hobbelen will receive his PhD on Friday 30 May, is important as it provides insight into how people walk. This can in turn help people with walking difficulties through improved diagnoses, training and rehabilitation equipment.

Robot Flame walks like a human

Researcher Daan Hobbelen of TU Delft has developed a new, highly-advanced walking robot: Flame. This type of research, for which Hobbelen will receive his PhD on Friday 30 May, is important as it provides insight into how people walk. This can in turn help people with walking difficulties through improved diagnoses, training and rehabilitation equipment.

Pa. Man Walks 25 Miles For DUI Sentencing

A man facing sentencing on a drunken-driving conviction couldn't get a ride to court. So he start walking. And walking. Stephen Shoemaker was scheduled to appear at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday for sentencing.

TU Delft robot Flame walks like a human

Researcher Daan Hobbelen of TU Delft (The Netherlands) has developed a new, highly-advanced walking robot: Flame. This type of research, for which Hobbelen will receive his PhD on Friday 30 May, is important as it provides insight into how people walk. This can in turn help people with walking difficulties through improved diagnoses, training and rehabilitation equipment.

New Robot Walks Like A Human

Researcher Daan Hobbelen of TU Delft (The Netherlands) has developed a new, highly-advanced walking robot: Flame. This type of research, for which Hobbelen will receive his PhD on Friday 30 May, is important as it provides insight into how people walk. This can in turn help people with walking difficulties through improved diagnoses, training and rehabilitation equipment.

Honda uses robotics to help elderly walk again

Using technology developed for Honda’s famous ASIMO (Advanced Step in Innovative Mobility) robot, the company has developed an assistive walking device that can be used to boost the strength of strides for the elderly and those with weakened or impaired walking.

Microsoft Still Searching for Yahoo Search Deal

Despite Yahoo’s rejection of a new search deal offer from Microsoft last week—one that went over like the proverbial turd in the punchbowl with some shareholders—the software giant this time is leaving its walking shoes in the closet. A number of sources indicate that despite twice walking away from previous deals for all of Yahoo and then its search operations, it’s not yet giving up on the possibility of a deal with Yahoo before its much-anticipated annual meeting on Aug. 1.

Google Maps Takes a Walk on the Healthy Side

Google is calling it a beta, but we're calling it a breath of fresh air (depending on where you live, of course, your air might a bit more fresh than the air we breathe here in New York City). Today, Google has added walking directions to its popular Google Maps page. Whenever you use Google Maps for directions, if the destination is within 10km (about 6.2 miles) of the originating point, walking directions will be offered as an option in addition to the traditional driving directions.

Pa. man walks 25 miles to court for DUI sentencing

This undated photo released by the Cumberland County Prison shows Stephen Shoemaker, 33 of Shippensburg, Pa. Shoemaker was scheduled to appear at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday, June 11, 2008 for sentencing on a 2007 drunken-driving conviction, but doesn't have a car or driver's license. So he started walking to the Cumberland County Courthouse in Carlisle at dawn. He kept walking for about 25 miles in 90-plus-degree heat.

Walking wounded

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Walking Like A Human: TU Delft Robot Flame

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Windies' walking wounded

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The Stelarc "Walking Head Robot" pretty much is exactly that

Two metres across. Six metal legs. A blank humanoid face with cold, unfeeling black eyes. Tubes. Pistons. If you've ever had a nightmare about a robot from the future tracking you down because of what your children will do several years from now, chances are it looked a bit like one of these.

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