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At the International Robot Exhibition in Japan, Robots For Your Every Need

By Jeremy Hsu Posted on 11.30.2009 15 Comments
That economic recession has hardly slowed down the growing swarm of robots designed for almost every task imaginable. Many of them showcased their skills at Japan's International Robot Exhibition 2009, along with a host of human handlers. Consumers in the market for a pair of robot skates need not hold their breath for much longer.

12.1.2009 at 01:17pm - Comment by boka

Soon we will evolve to the point of not needing the female gender. I think we are almost there as species.
Technology

At the International Robot Exhibition in Japan, Robots For Your Every Need

By Jeremy Hsu Posted on 11.30.2009 15 Comments
That economic recession has hardly slowed down the growing swarm of robots designed for almost every task imaginable. Many of them showcased their skills at Japan's International Robot Exhibition 2009, along with a host of human handlers. Consumers in the market for a pair of robot skates need not hold their breath for much longer.

11.30.2009 at 07:28pm - Comment by boka

I am really interested in a robot for replacement of female companionship. I think in the next years that can be a reality.
Technology

Mourning the Death of the Meta Media Experience

By Tom Conlon Posted on 11.20.2009 13 Comments
I tend to think of my cable bill kind of like my health insurance premium. Every month, I begrudgingly pony up the funds necessary to continue this so-called “service” wondering the what the heck it is I’m actually paying for--especially since most of what I regularly watch can be found online in some form--all the while deathly afraid of the consequences should I ever stop wiring in my money. Every month, I consider amputating cable from my bottom line once and for all. But what’s holding me back is that I think I might actually miss it.

11.22.2009 at 08:24pm - Comment by boka

I haven't had cable in 7 years. In fact I watch my dvd's or downloads from my computer monitor. So I technically haven't had a tv in any way in 7 years. And you know what? I haven't missed much at all.
Technology

What Would Happen if I Ate a Teaspoonful of White Dwarf Star?

By Posted on 11.12.2009 22 Comments
“Everything about it would be bad,” says Mark Hammergren, an astronomer at Adler Planetarium in Chicago, beginning with your attempt to scoop it up. Despite the fact that white dwarfs are fairly common throughout the universe, the nearest is 8.6 light-years away. Let’s assume, though, that you’ve spent 8.6 years in your light-speed car and that the radiation and heat emanating from the star didn’t kill you on your approach. White dwarfs are extremely dense stars, and their surface gravity is about 100,000 times as strong as Earth’s.

11.15.2009 at 01:40pm - Comment by boka

I think wolverine could eat a white dwarf. His healing powers would fix him up.
Technology

U.S. Deploys Reaper Drones Off Somalia Just in Time for Pirate Season

By Clay Dillow Posted on 11.11.2009 21 Comments
As this summer's Navy SEAL beatdown briefly brought to the world's attention, there's a festering piracy problem in the waters off the Horn of Africa. The pirates, in large part unchallenged, are growing bolder, striking in waters as far out as 1,000 nautical miles from Somali shores. Patrolling such large part swath of the Indian Ocean might be impossible if not for the tech the U.S. has recently rolled out to protect her maritime interests: unmanned Reaper drones armed with infrared eyes.

11.10.2009 at 08:21pm - Comment by boka

Yes, that's right USA. Kill more people. That's what you are good at. Kill, kill, kill. Kill, kill, kill.
Science

Baguette Dropped From Bird's Beak Shuts Down The Large Hadron Collider (Really)

By Stuart Fox Posted on 11.5.2009 86 Comments
The Large Hadron Collider, the world's most powerful particle accelerator, just cannot catch a break. First, a coolant leak destroyed some of the magnets that guide the energy beam. Then LHC officials postponed the restart of the machine to add additional safety features.

11.9.2009 at 09:37am - Comment by boka

The female mind is the most complicated thing ever made. That's why they can never be a president or leader of any kind. Ever.
Science

Mutant Bacteria Are Likely to Threaten Future Space Travelers

By Rebecca Boyle Posted on 11.5.2009 13 Comments
When humans eventually travel to Mars and beyond, they'll have plenty to worry about along with the discomforts of eating freeze-dried food and drinking their own urine. A new report says they will probably be really sick, to boot -- from flare-ups of E. coli, chicken pox or staph infections. A host of microscopic stowaways could make interplanetary voyagers sick, especially because human immune systems are compromised in space, and because bacteria seem to thrive in micro- or zero-gravity environments.

11.6.2009 at 03:07pm - Comment by boka

Good. I hope space travlers don't make it to mars or anywhere. Science has destroyed our planet so of course we need science to destroy other planets.
Technology

China Designs Indigenous UAV Stealth Fighter, and Bootlegs Some US Models

By Posted on 10.15.2009 33 Comments
When I hear the phrase "knock-off Chinese products", I usually think of either the bootleg DVDs I get on the subway or the cheap electronics I get in Midtown. But a new report in Defense Professionals notes that the Chinese military has channeled that same skill for replication towards closing their UAV technology gap. By simply copying US technology, China has created a stock of advanced drones, and gained the technical knowledge to create some interesting native UAVs as well.

10.15.2009 at 12:04pm - Comment by boka

Uh oh, it's all gonna end soon. This will definitely get messy.
Cars

Weird-Looking German Supercar Breaks Nürburgring Record

By Mike Spinelli Posted on 8.20.2009 18 Comments
The Gumpert Apollo Speed may be uglier than a naked mole rat (please, don't Google the rat, trust me), but it's also ridiculously fast. So fast, indeed, that the Apollo this week set the fastest lap time of any production car around German's legendary Nürburgring Nordschleife. Why does that matter? It proves some people will never stop manipulating physics for purposes of speed, no matter how much time others spend on fuel efficiency. Twenty-six-year-old racing driver Florian Gruber did the lap in 7:11.57, taking a 10-second bite out of the Dodge Viper's record of 7:22.1.

8.20.2009 at 11:43am - Comment by boka

you are not kidding. That car is terrible looking. so is the new camaro.
Technology

Point. Click. Kill: Inside The Air Force's Frantic Unmanned Reinvention

By Eric Hagerman Posted on 8.18.2009 36 Comments
Without traffic, it takes Captain Adam Brockshus about 45 minutes to drive from his four-bedroom suburban home outside Las Vegas to Creech Air Force Base in Indian Springs, Nevada. His commute follows Highway 95 northwest through a stretch of the Mojave freckled with Joshua trees and flanked by arid mountain ranges. He trains pilots for combat in Iraq and Afghanistan, yet this desolate drive may be the most harrowing part of his job.

8.20.2009 at 11:41am - Comment by boka

Woohoo. One step closer to extinction. Humans suck.