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Archive for September 24, 2009
MegaGoods 2009 Gallery
September 24, 2009 by alikat.
(popsci.com)– The Year’s Hottest Products In One Place
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Alex Honnold crushing it in Indian Creek, Utah
September 24, 2009 by alikat.
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The Reality of Robot Surrogates
September 24, 2009 by alikat.
“(spectrum.ieee.org)– Imagine a world where you’re stronger, younger, better looking, and don’t age. Well, you do, but your robot surrogate—which you control with your mind from a recliner at home while it does your bidding in the world—doesn’t.
It’s a bit like The Matrix, but instead of a computer-generated avatar in a graphics-based illusion, in Surrogates—which opens Friday and stars Bruce Willis—you have a real titanium-and-fluid copy impersonating your flesh and blood and running around under your mental control. Other recent films have used similar concepts to ponder issues like outsourced virtual labor (Sleep Dealer) and incarceration (Gamer).
The real technology behind such fantastical fiction is grounded both in far-out research and practical robotics. So how far away is a world of mind-controlled personal automatons?” read more
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