http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwZD59Ic9T8
Now here’s a clever invention, and by clever I mean “What the funk are you thinking?” This young man has fused together a cockroach and a robot (would we be wrong to call it a cockbot?) that moves around on wheels. Nice going, you’ve made a robot that can survive a nuclear war.
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In the world of robots that walk on two legs and perform tricks like trained monkeys, no one holds a candle to ASIMO. But that may be coming to an end soon. French robotics company Aldebaran has posted a video on their site showing their Nao taking its first wobbly steps. Yeah, it’s not quite [...]
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Boing Boing posted today a very scary item. Apparently televangelist Pat Robertson said on the air the other day that some kind of massive attack on the US will happen this year, and it’s going to be very, very bad. Said the minister of the airwaves:
“I’m not saying necessarily nuclear, the Lord didn’t say nuclear,” [...]
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We all know that iPods are cool, but really you can listen to music almost anytime and anywhere. What really makes the latest iPods so cool is all the other things you can do with them, like learn another language.
Sushimatic has a great post today on how to use your iPod to learn Japanese, both [...]
tags: Podcasts, Software, Uncategorized, iPod author: Beowulf comments: No Comments