The blog with a love/hate relationship with technology
It’s no real secret that Michael Jackson is an oddball, but I think he’s really gone over the line here. Apparently he’s commissioned someone to build a 50-foot robot in his likeness. And no, I’m not making this up, I’m not on crack, and it’s not April Fool’s Day.
According to the New York Daily News, [...]
Adobe has officially released Creative Suite 3, the ultimate convergence of tried and true Adobe apps and new tools acquired from Macromedia. Great, now if the World Bank would see fit to advance me a little loan, maybe I could get a copy.
CS3 comes in a multitude of flavors tailored for designers, Web developers, [...]
Computer security experts revealed late last week that Microsoft’s new Vista operating system has a bug that could make PCs vulnerable to attack. Well surprise, surprise; I didn’t see that one coming.
The problem affects Vista’s e-mail client, Windows Mail, and could allow an attacker to execute malicious code on an unsuspecting user’s computer. Of course, [...]
Dungeon & Dragons nerds around the world will certainly be saving their gold and silver pieces in anticipation of the release of a new book by Lord of the Rings author J. R. R. Tolkien, due out next month.
Publishing house HarperCollins announced the release of The Children of Hurin, a novel that Tolkien started in [...]
We’ve seen talking robots, walking robots, robots that make tea, robots that throw cans of beer, and robots that kill, but this certainly has to be the cutest robot of them all.
Keepon (pronounced “kee-pong”) from those robot design masters at Carnegie Mellon is designed to not only find the beat but also move in rhythm [...]
Take that, Jeff Bezos.
SpaceX, the startup space transportation company funded by billionaire Elon Musk, jumped into the lead of the private space race after a nearly successful launch of its Falcon 1 rocket this week.
The two-stage, kerosene-powered rocket reached an altitude of 200 miles on Wednesday after taking off from the Kwajalein Army Range in [...]
I was pretty jazzed last Fall when Apple introduced its set top box to the world and finally we get to see what this little baby can do. CNET has a pretty good review of Apple TV on their site, though it sounds like I’ll be waiting a little longer to get one.
I’ll be waiting [...]
Because our nation’s legislative bodies don’t have a enough to do, it’s good to see that they are tackling such hard-hitting issues as deciding what is and what is not a planet.
This past week, the New Mexico state legislature defied the International Astronomical Union and passed a resolution that declares Pluto should be designated a [...]
Happy St. Patrick’s Day to all, whether you be Irish or not. But then aren’t we all Irish during the Feast of St. Paddy? I’m pretty sure when you put on that plastic bowler or the green-colored tiara or the string of green shamrock-shaped beads, that makes you Irish. (Well, that and drinking green beer, [...]
Okay, these aren’t real robots, but the US Postal Service is deploying an army of mailboxes built to look like R2D2, and I say that’s a step in the right direction. I could get behind the idea of a motionless robot that just has a slot to drop in mail. Maybe it could confirm for [...]
