The blog with a love/hate relationship with technology
There it is in all its non-functioning glory, my almost 4-year-old Hewlett-Packard. How the mighty have fallen. And so young, too.
Actually, it’s not completely dead: If you try long enough it will post sometimes, and then you have a good shot at booting into Linux. It doesn’t like booting into Windows, though. I’m thinking [...]
Japanese researchers have made a robot that can jump like a frog. That’s just great, so now we’ll be visited by a plague of cyborg in the future.
So those lovable little Martian rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, are still going strong, eh? Opportunity reached the edge of a new crater yesterday and will begin examining rocks at the top before scaling its way down inside. Spirit, meanwhile, is exploring a Martian plateau called Home Plate.
No don’t get me wrong, the science is [...]
If you’ve been watching any of the new season of television you’ve no doubt been subjected to the latest ad campaign from Honda. The spots feature the song “I Can See For Miles” and star the most famous robot in the whole world, Asimo. Apparently the idea is the cute little bot walking around with [...]
Today the robo crazies at iRobot unleashed their latest creation on the world. Called ConnectR, it comes with wi-fi networking, a built in camera, speakers, and a microphone so that you can communicate with anyone in your house from the comfort of your panic room. Kind of like the robo Ivan only for a lot, [...]
Watch this video from Hifana’s new song “Connect” (via Pink Tentacle). It has robots. It will blow your mind.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-0OSkrQOEI
Totally creep out your friends and family when they come to visit by introducing them to this little menacing beast. The Hexapod from Micromagic Systems tracks and reacts to your movements, twitching and squirming like a big metal bug ready to leap onto your face, but best of all it has a webcam that will [...]
When I think of the state fair, the things that come to mind are corn dogs, carnival rides and tractor pulls, not robots. Can a robot appreciate the sweet delicacy of cotton candy, the stifling heat and humidity or the smell of manure coming from the animal barns? I think not. But in Kansas they [...]
I always thought Google was part of the robot conspiracy and now we have proof: The search engine giant is offering a $30 million prize to the first person to blast a robot to the moon. Heck, it only took $10 million to convince Burt Rutan to send his buddy Mike Melvill up in that [...]
The one thing I find very creepy about robot makers — besides their obvious death wish (why else would they be trying to perfect the means of humanity’s destruction?) — is the whole God complex they must have. Creating a new form of “life” from an inanimate object and making it act sort of “human” [...]
