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This Week in the Future, March 29-April 2, 2010
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Believe it or not, there was more to this week's news from the future than iPad iPad iPad. Here are some of the stories from the rest of the world that we loved.
- Adorable Laundry-Folding Robot Gives Your Towels Fastidious Attention
- Video: MIT Students' DIY "Minority Report" Glove Mouse
- Designer Reverse-Engineers Face-Detection Tech to Develop Camouflage Makeup
- Yard-Long Undersea Bug Terrorizes Robo-Sub, Internet
As always, leave a comment here to win this illustration on a T-shirt--we'll pick someone at random. And if you've won a shirt over the last few weeks and haven't received yet, hang tight, it's on its way.
Have a good iPad/Easter weekend everyone!
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Creepy sea roach make me want the shirt.
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In the future, people keep mutant lobsters as pets.
Some day there will be robots that can not only fold laundry but do anything...
Go underwater sea bug!
hmmmm....it seems the bug has stumbled over a nice dead whale carcass...
Let me win please!!!
That robot has a brain!
FTW! (For the Win!)
I love how the PR2 turned towel folding into art. It was beautiful! So meticulous!
Wow, another good one!
woot.
I love her dress
Maybe it's just my past, but the face paint they are putting on interests me... Even more so with the creation of BIMA.
Here it is if you missed it www.popsci.com/technology/article/2010-03/us-government-launches-official-biometrics-agency-manage-department-defense-database
We can't even active link to your own site in the comments? Now that isn't a good SEO practice...
never mind, I stand corrected... At least all these comments give me more chances to win, right?
win
I think Andrew Zimmern should take a trip to Taiwann and sample the isopod ceviche on his next trip
Americanii sunt niste animale proaste.
Gimme!
its an awesome blog i really appreciate it..
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Jack Brosnan
It may not be a lobster but i'd still name that thing Mr. Pinchy.
LOL stupid robots
--GTO--
If only the robot would fold my new PopSci tshirt...
all this tee needs is hatchet face from crybaby to be wearing it. hooray!
I can just hear the kids now, "I want a giant isopod!"
I can't tell if the bag matches the shoes!
happyhooker
The robot must now change his name from 'Bender' to 'Folder'.
Cool t-shirt