The blog with a love/hate relationship with technology
There’s been a fair amount of discussion among the roboto illuminati the past few years about granting robots the rights and privileges of all citizens. Obviously you’ll find no sympathy for that sort of thinking around here, and as evidence for why, check out this video of former President Bill Clinton being heckled by a [...]
Sony’s robot dog Aibo is back and this time it’s for real.
If you’ll remember, the Japanese electronics giant discontinued their experiment in consumer robotics early last year, but rumors are floating through the ether waves that Aibo might be back and badder than ever. According to Stuff magazine (via Gizmodo), the Aibo PS will be [...]
We warned about this earlier; please to all parents do not buy robot toys for your children this Christmas. Please!
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
