You would think that videogames and cheesy 80’s sci-fi movies are the only places you’d find weapons like rail guns and lasers of death. Well, think again. Cracked.com, web presence of the popular magazine, gives us a list of 5 crazy sci-fi weapons that are actually in production. Some of them aren’t too surprising but others feel like they’re straight out of a videogame. Once you hit the jump, you may never feel safe again. The patriotic folks at Boeing, the giant aircraft manufacturer and
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The ‘Charlie. Camerautomata’ is a new project by Taeyoon Choi , Recipient of the 2008 Commission for Resident Artist at the Eyebeam Art and Technology Center in NYC. The ‘Camerautomata’ (’Camera’+'Automata’) is a ‘Magical Image Digesting Robotic Duck’. Charlie, the duck, is a participatory ‘Image- Technology’ for photographic intervention in public spaces. The project explores the system in which digital images are produced and consumed in urban space as well as information space. Where as the
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Will Smith iRobot Tutorial. Read on: continued here Post from: Photoshop Tutorials Adobe Photoshop - Forum Sig Series in Photoshop
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This is cool in a terrifying kind of way — Cracked.com goes long on 5 military weapons currently in development by defense contractors which bear a striking resemblance to the ray guns and robot killing machines we see in Sci-Fi movies. The top five are shown below, but the entire article — including where the idea for these weapons may have originated — is worth a read. # 5: The Advanced Tactical Laser, Boeing’s Flying Laser Cannon # 4: Railguns, the Navy’s Fleet-Destroying Doom Cannons
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If Peapod doesn’t provide quite the level of service you expected… if you would prefer to actually have a look at the specific fruits and vegetables or cuts of meat, etc… before purchasing them, then Japanese robotics developer tmsuk might have the solution for you.  According to Pink Tentacle, tmsuk has developed a remote controlled shopping robot that allows the infirm or just plain lazy to shop from home via various cellphone links. The current state of the technology was demonstrated at
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This is not an actual photo of what happened after I poured my daughter a bowl of cereal from the poorly opened box of non-frosted corn flakes this morning. (see how good a mom I am? non -frosted, please forget about the four Dum-Dum lollipops each of them have already eaten today)  I would be thrilled if my kitchen was this clean. I’ve actually toyed with the idea of getting a  Roomba. How cool would that be? I would just lie on the couch  (hah, I can never realistically do that because as
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Here’s a great concept… Use technology to help raise money for sick kids. This Sunday, the Washington Nationals and MLB.com will debut the use of “mobile giving” to benefit the creation of a Diabetes Care Complex for Children’s National Medical Center.   Here’s how it works: Fans can text the word “NATS” to 90999 to give $5 to support the work of Children’s National Medical Center to fight pediatric diabetes, a growing concern in the Washington area and nationwide. While the July 13 game agai
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Apple gets real with iPhone “Remote” application Posted by: admin in Mobile News As expected, the AppStore is showing Apple’s take on an iPhone-as-remote-control application. Dubbed, “Remote” (iTunes link), the native application, available through the AppStore gives users the capability to control iTunes directly through their iPhone. “Remote” is available for free and requires that your iPhone and iTunes-computer are hooked up to the same WiFi network. From there, the iPhone application
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The fine folks at Crave, a CNET UK Podcast, wonder if Roomba can help end the recession. Earlier, Crave was at CES 2008 in Las Vegas and got a tour of Roomba, Scooba and Looj in this video: iRobot Roomba, Looj and Scooba household robots|CNET.co.uk videos Tags: iRobot, robot, Roomba
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Packbot, made by iRobot in Burlington, Massachusetts, disposes of bombs, sniffs out explosives and checks for landmines for US soldiers. It is 70 centimeters (28 inches) long, and moves on wheels or tracks. Some even have machine guns attached, although these are yet to be used in battle. Packbot is capable of some tasks while on auto-control, but usually it’s remote-controlled using a “joypad” device that’s very similar to a controller used by most video game consoles, or a traditional joysti
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