The blog with a love/hate relationship with technology
What once was a childhood favorite and prized Christmas gift years ago has turned into a high-tech rumble held yearly at the Robo-One competition in Japan. One of the events is to build small robots that can perform precise fighting movements to defeat other robot opponents. The blog, Glosoli, posted a small story about this [...]
The web has given us lots of robots news this week. From a bartending robot to the creepy but cool little brother of the BigDog the bot-possibilites are endless. Regardless of the task we will all be their slaves in ten years.
Robot Carp- All the lifelike movements of a real carp without the fishy smell. [...]
After months of speculation and rumor about the PS3, Sony finally decided to put an end to all the speculation and rumor surrounding its next generation console by holding an official press conference today in Tokyo. The headline item to come out of the briefing with Sony games chief Ken Kutaragi (reported on in detail [...]
Remember back a few months when everyone was downloading the “Lazy Sunday” video from YouTube.com, and then NBC forced the site to remove the popular video? Well, the same scenario played out this weekend, except it took just a day for the network to bring the hammer down. This past installment of Saturday Night Live [...]
This week’s creepy bot is a robot dog/mule produced by the company, Boston Dynamics. Developed for the US military, the BigDog can carry cargo and will not fall over even when kicked. I am not sure why the military would want this, as opposed to a Hummer. Regardless, the thing needs a head! It looks [...]
It’s that time again. The Oscars. I’ve seen my share of the nominated films and I will be predicting who I think will take home a gold statue this year. I will only touch on few of the categories. You can get a full list of all the nominees and categories here.
Best Picture- Brokeback [...]
