Science Fiction Robots

The blog with a love/hate relationship with technology

Keep Your Holiday Robot-Free

We warned about this earlier; please to all parents do not buy robot toys for your children this Christmas. Please!

tags: Christmas, Robot products, Robot uprising, Robots author: Beowulf comments: 1 Comment

December 8th, 2007

Smack My Pleo Up

If you are one of those tender-hearted softies then watching the Dvice staff abuse their Pleo dinosaur robot must be painful to watch. For the rest of us, who think the Pleo is just the first wave of the coming robot uprising, it’s pretty darn hilarious.
But don’t think that the Dvice kids are just heartless [...]

tags: Pleo, Robots author: Beowulf comments: No Comments

December 8th, 2007

He’s Hung Like A Trojan Horse

It used to be that the biggest danger in online chat rooms was being fooled by some overweight nerd in a bathrobe into thinking he was a 20-year old co-ed into kinky sex and baseball. Now it seems that software bots are trolling the forums looking to steal our libidos.
Actually these programs are more [...]

tags: Internet, Robots, Software bots author: Beowulf comments: No Comments

December 8th, 2007

How Did Christmas Survive Star Wars?

This doesn’t really have anything to do with robots or anything else, but with the holiday decorations going up I am reminded of the most frightening Christmas special ever shown on American TV.
The year was 1978 and CBS decided to cash in on the mega-popularity of Star Wars by commissioning the Star Wars Holiday Special. [...]

tags: Christmas, Star Wars, Video, Web Video author: Beowulf comments: No Comments

December 7th, 2007
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