The blog with a love/hate relationship with technology
The best thing you can say about robots is that they look like robots. They are easily identifiable as robots, and once identified their threat can be assessed and they can be deactivated or destroyed as needed. Oh sure, some robots might look a whole lot like human beings, but we have tests we can [...]
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 [...]
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.
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 [...]
Some robot scientists think they have a fertile idea on how to power their mechanical creations by impregnating them with the power of sperm.
Researchers at Cornell are studying the chemical processes that give spermatozoa their endless energy and have managed to attach three of the enzymes to a chip. If the work is successful, I [...]
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 [...]
I know you’ve heard a lot about the scary robots being cooked up in secret laboratories that are are going to take over the world, but seriously those mechanical insects you see hovering over anti-war rallies are not robot spies. The government is so not using tiny bug bots to keep tabs on you, I [...]
Those clever monkeys at Neiman Marcus have jumped on the robot bandwagon. In its latest “crazy gifts you’ll never buy” catalog, the upscale retailer lists something called Swami, a fortune telling atomoton with artificial intelligence.
Apparently this creepy head in a crystal ball has camera sensors that can recognize your family members and with its [...]
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.
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 [...]
