The blog with a love/hate relationship with technology
Never at a loss for a reason to deploy an army of robots, the Japanese are hoping their cyborg buddies will help them avoid hay fever this year.
Tokyo-based Weathernews is set to unleash a flotilla of Pollen Bots that people can hang outside their homes to monitor the air quality. In typical Japanese fashion, the [...]
At a Stanford University conference this past weekend, scientists debated the pros and cons of creating autonomous robot killing machines. To me it seems like a rather one sided debate — robots killing people vs. robots not killing people — but someone managed to defend the idea that creating war machines with artificial intelligence is [...]
For quite a while now we’ve carried the torch against the coming robot uprising, but maybe we should have been a little more concerned about dangers from above. It seems marauding objects from space are going on the offensive against the planets.
Last night an asteroid about 800 feet long passed within 334,000 miles of the [...]
Pretty amazing numbers coming out of Nintendo this week. Apparently they’ve sold just over 20 million Wii consoles in 14 months since the launch. According to Kotaku (and they should know) Nintendo’s Game Cube console sold 21 million units during its six-year lifespan.
Presently Nintendo is shipping about 1.8 million Wii boxes a month, so at [...]
What’s great about the Japanese is they are always thinking about building giant robots. What’s scary about the Japanese is THEY ARE ALWAYS THINKING ABOUT BUILDING GIANT ROBOTS!
But how much would it actually cost to build a Gundam? Finally we have the answer: $725 million. At least that’s the figure someone at SciencePortal (via Pink [...]
If you’re into that sort of thing, and maybe you need to seek some help if you are, io9 has a whole post about sexy sex robots from science fiction complete with pictures. Yuck.
You might think this video from The Onion about robots ruling the world is pretty funny (and it is), but if we keep down the road we’re going, it might turn into science fact.
In The Know: Are We Giving The Robots That Run Our Society Too Much Power?
Want to know what’s scarier than a hoard of robots coming to tear your fragile flesh from your brittle bones? A robot that’s controlled by a monkey brain. Now this is something I never thought I’d have to face, but this is the 21st century age of science fiction madness come to life, so I [...]
Merry Apple Xmas. Hope there was something good for you in Santa Steve’s sack of goodies.
For me, anyway, the highlight of the Macworld keynote today was the new Apple TV. Lots of new features are being rolled out to make Steve’s “hobby” something actually useable. Now you can order movies, TV shows, and music right [...]
The Terminator movie series supposes a future in which a powerful, centralized computer takes control of robots and other machines in order to wage war on the human race. Science fiction fantasty, you say? Not if the robot elite have their way.
In an article on CNET about personal robots — you know, that cute Pleo [...]
