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- Saturday’s Comic Relief, Jan 19th
After a week of talking flesh fusing with machines, animal experiments and other under-the-skin issues, it’s important to mix it up with some funny videos! Yarr, here be geeky humor.
Fake Steve Accepts an Award
Fake Steve Jobs accepted the award for best gadget at the Crunchies 2008 last night. Personally I think it could’ve been shorter, [...]
Sat, 19 Jan 2008 18:12:14 +0000
- Woof Woof, Bow Wow Wow
Recent news tell of software that analyzed over 6,000 barks from 14 Hungarian sheepdogs in 6 different situations. It could consequently discern whether the a dog was in a stranger, fight, walk, alone, ball or play scenario. This isn’t the first time we’ve tried something like this, but previous devices haven’t been very successful (have [...]
Fri, 18 Jan 2008 17:09:34 +0000
- Monkey Brain Makes Robot Walk
Last year I had the pleasure of seeing Dr. Miguel A. L. Nicolelis do a lecture at Reykjavik University about his research on mind-controlled robotics. His previous efforts have put him in the spotlight more than once which include enabling a monkey to control a robotic arm with his mind. Now Nicolelis and his team [...]
Wed, 16 Jan 2008 21:22:26 +0000
- The Hours Preceding the MacWorld 2008 Keynote
It’s that time of the year again. A holiday aftershock. Crazed consumers say the man in the black turtleneck visits today. With the MacWorld 2008 keynote only about half an hour away I’m naturally at the computer, eagerly awaiting updates. I must admit that I haven’t been keeping a hawk eye on rumors or leaked information. [...]
Tue, 15 Jan 2008 16:47:43 +0000
- The Ra Desk Lamp by Ettore Cimini
The Ra desk lamp is not your average desk lamp in terms of visual value. The artificial vertebrae design rattles loudly on my aesthetic scale.
Created by designer Ettore Cimini, you can get one for about USD$2000. Unfortunately, that’s not within my student budget.
Links & References
Image from Lumina
Mon, 14 Jan 2008 16:12:18 +0000
- Best Technology Innovation, 5 Crunchies Finalists
The Crunchies is a competition to recognize and celebrate the most compelling startups, internet and technology innovations of the year. Amongst the five finalists in the Best Technology Innovation category we have Twine; a semantic web application I’ve been testing for some time.
Read/WriteWeb, GigaOm, VentureBeat and TechCrunch are the organizers of the Crunchies; the nominees [...]
Sat, 12 Jan 2008 23:32:49 +0000
- Robot Videos From CES 2008
As usual, the Consumer Electronics Show 2008 has brought an onslaught of hot gadgets. Here are a few videos of new robotic products expected to hit the market this year. A special star goes to WowWee for their Rovio telepresence bot which sounds and looks truly fantastic.
Rovio & Spykee for telepresence
I have a thing for [...]
Fri, 11 Jan 2008 18:56:53 +0000
- Living Tissue to Power Your Computer?
A few years ago I read about an experiment that used living cortical neurons from a rat brain to perform calculations. More specifically, the neurons were connected to the controls of an F-22 fighter jet simulator. After some training, the brain was able to fly the jet in tough weather conditions. Today Geylen brought my [...]
Fri, 11 Jan 2008 00:56:29 +0000
- Robot Uprising 2008-2015, Market to Reach $15B
A new report states that personal robotics industry is expected to reach USD$15 billion in 2015. If we compare this to previous predictions, they all bode massive growth like a choir of singing synthesizers.
Mon, 07 Jan 2008 21:41:20 +0000
- Think Artificial Redesigned for 2008
Ladies and gentlemen, put your 3D glasses on now. Finally, Think Artificial launches a custom design to go with the content. It took me time to get around to, but better late than never. Tailored to usher in tales from the future, from science fiction to science fact, this metamorphosis echoes ambition for the new [...]
Sat, 05 Jan 2008 19:57:45 +0000
- 2007 - The End is Nigh
Two-thousand-and-seven was a fine year. On May 27th ThinkArtificial.org launched with a bang and naturally I’ve quite enjoyed the ride. We’ve talked about synthetic lifeforms, living spacedust, surprising ingenuity of AIBOs. But this is the last post for 2007 and in it we ponder peeking into the future.
The red and green, rampant and sometimes [...]
Mon, 31 Dec 2007 01:30:28 +0000
- Site Update in Progress [Dec 23rd, 2007]
Think Artificial will be undergoing a site update today. Some elements are expected to break, and the site will look strange. This post will be edited for news. Apologies for any inconvenience.
UPDATE: Major updating is complete, but work on the site will continue throughout the day. Expect new site features and functionality to pop up [...]
Sun, 23 Dec 2007 15:59:34 +0000
- Awesome Trailer for Pixar’s Wall*E
I admit I wasn’t entirely convinced when I saw the teaser for Pixar’s new Wall*E movie a few months back, but damn me for having ever doubted the minds at Pixar! The consequently released plot details plus trailer have me chuckling and wishing for a closer release date than the 27th of June 2008. Wall*E [...]
Sat, 22 Dec 2007 14:11:04 +0000
- Matalosis Maligna: Metal Implants, Growing
Prosthetics and implants; the hunt for increased longevity and improved physical attributes carry a horrifying cost. Or so is the theme in a short documentary of the fictitious disease Metalosis Maligna. A bacterial infection around implants triggers a growth process within it, causing the implant’s steel to expand and branch-out with devastating effects to the [...]
Fri, 21 Dec 2007 21:00:54 +0000
- The Net’s Runaway Infrastructure
The web has certainly been a nice treat. It’s too bad to see it go. The threat of history repeating itself with large multi-billion dollar corporations consuming a new and powerful medium is at our doorstep. This time at the expense of net neutrality. Such a trend’s not an evil conspiracy (not always, anyway), nor [...]
Tue, 18 Dec 2007 01:19:01 +0000
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