Yesterday 2:59am LifeStream for 2008-10-28 7:10am Posted an item on Worth Reading. Mars Phoenix Losing an Arm, Going On Life Support [Death On Mars] 7:54am Posted an item on Worth Reading. The Eeephone Cometh: Asus To Launch Android Phone in ’09 [Android] 8:10am Posted an item on Worth Reading. Robert Downey Jr. will suit up [...]
Computers powered by Living Material – Here it comes!
Discovery News: Bacteria-Run Computer Solves Math Puzzle May 28, 2008 — A new living computer, bred from E. coli bacteria instead of stamped from silica, has for the first time successfully solved a classic mathematical puzzle known as the Burnt Pancake Problem. While this bacteria-based computer is more proof of concept than practical, a living [...]
The Captcha – here comes the robots!
Do you know what a Captcha is? I am sure you have dealt with them, but I bet most of you don’t know what their purpose is. Unfortunately, there are a lot of programmers out there that write “bots” that are small little programs that run on a computer and scourer websites trying to find [...]
BigDog by Boston Dynamics
Another creepy robot, this time its built like a 4 legged animal, but unlike animals the balance this thing has is simply amazing.
You’ll never break me down…
This is amazing, you kick the robot apart and it reassembles itself. clipped from uk.youtube.com
Developing long-term relations with robots
I am a huge fan of developing long-term relationships with technology, here is a good read from Physorg.com… LIREC aims to create a new generation of interactive, emotionally intelligent, companion technology, that is capable of long-term engagement with humans – in both a virtual (graphical) world, and in the real-world (as robots). The project will [...]
Surely this isn’t a good idea – building an exact model of the brain using microchips
In the basement of a university in Lausanne, Switzerland sit four black boxes, each about the size of a refrigerator, and filled with 2,000 IBM microchips stacked in repeating rows. Together they form the processing core of a machine that can handle 22.8 trillion operations per second. It contains no moving parts and is eerily [...]
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