The blog with a love/hate relationship with technology
The Japanese, as we’re all aware, have been working feverishly to build a vast array of service robots out of (a somewhat justified) fear that declining birthrates and demand for higher wages will deplete the service sector. Well it looks like some entrepreneurs in Germany have beat them to the punch and opened a fully [...]
If the robot uprising were to happen today, how much of a fight would we put up. Seriously, most of the people in this country are so fat and out of shape they’d never last a minute in a fight. And now that robots are learning to run and jump, we’re at even more of [...]
I’m not sure I understand or appreciate the technological achievement of creating a robot monkey that channels the late Roy Orbison sining “Crying,” but it’s kinda cool. No, strike that, it’s kinda creepy, actually. It also puts a disturbing wrinkle in my world view about the relationship between monkey’s and robots, one that was formed [...]
This is not a video of a creepy robot but rather a video of a creepy, kooky girl singing about robots while playing her somewhat demented-sounding squeeze box. I’ll admit her heart is in the right place and the sentiment is sweet, but pining about whether those cold, electronic metal monsters have feelings is just [...]
Political adviser and campaign strategist Karl Rove is resigning from the Bush administration. In reality, Rove is quite possibly an evil robot controlled by the following three laws:
A Rove-bot must not loose a campaign, or through inaction cause a political ally to loose an election.
A Rove-bot must obey orders given to it by [...]
If you happened to tune into the live Webcast of Pearl Jam playing at Lollapalooza in Chicago this past weekend, you may have missed something. Telephone and telecommunications giant AT&T “accidentally” censored the band’s performance, cutting out a portion of the performance that was critical of the President.
According to CNET, the “live” Internet broadcast [...]
The space shuttle Endeavor is scheduled to finally lift off tomorrow from Cape Kennedy at 6:36 EDT, weather permitting, of course. The past few weeks have been rough for the space program, having suffered an attack from a would be saboteur who damaged a computer that was supposed to be delivered to the International Space [...]
Last night in San Diego, San Francisco Giants slugger Barry Bonds hit his 755th home run to tie the career record of Hank Aaron. A lot of people are very upset over this because of allegations Bonds has used steroids and other performance enhancing drugs in the past; they say his career stats should have [...]
This video comes via a post at Mr. Future (by way of BoingBoing) about Maywa Denki, a Japanese art and design company that has built an army of musical robots bent on world domination — or at least #1 with a bullet.
With all these robot musicians and singers popping up everywhere lately, maybe it’s [...]
A prescient warning from Andrew Thompson to all the kids out there. Don’t trust robots, kids, they’re out to kill you. (Thanks to BoingBoing)
