The blog with a love/hate relationship with technology
It’s no big secret we’re pretty anti-robot around here, but even we have a soft spot for some of these mechanical beasts, like the Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity. Sent on a three-month mission to survey the Red Planet, those little guys are still going strong almost four year’s later.
So it was a little bit [...]
The problem with the mainstream media and technology news is they feed any old story to those flacks at the wire services and it gets reprinted everywhere without anyone so much as raising a simple question. For example, the AP picked up on the International Robot Exhibition going on in Tokyo and just spews forth [...]
No I’m not talking about Robot Santa from Futurama, but I am worried that robots are threatening our cherished holiday. Every year a new crop of robot toys hit the shelves in time for the Christmas buying season, and this year two of the hot sellers are expected to be the i-Sobot from Takara/Tomy and [...]
Sexy hot robots dancing, tempting me with the siren call of their sultry moves. Must resist urge to give into carnal cybernetic propaganda. Curse you curvaceous robots and your dance of domination over humankind.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cva_sGN_0VA
I guess if humanity is destined to be enslaved by cyberbots then we might as well have a drink and toast our last days of meat freedom. Yes Roboexotica, the annual bacchanal of cocktail-mixing robots, is getting underway in Vienna. The carnival of booze-fueled robo-propaganda will pave the way for the great silicon uprising with [...]
Dissatisfied with guitar playing in the meat world, instrument maker Gibson has come up with a solution that is music to the ears of the pro-robot brigade: A robotic guitar.
Well, they call it the Robot Guitar but there’s not a lot of cybernetics involved; all it really does is automatically tune itself, which is [...]
