Showing posts with label robots. Show all posts
Showing posts with label robots. Show all posts

Thursday, March 26, 2009

Obama Harshes America's Buzz

Yes, you with the green penis...

Good crikey Jiminy Christmas fuck. This guy again.

President Unicorn has not been told that the election is over and he won. Because of this, he still travels around the country while Tim Geithner & Co. are left in charge to plot new horrible ways to force us in to unemployment office lines.

Today, Obama held a virtual Town Hall meeting, taking questions from various robots of the future.

The question that has gotten the most attention came from an android named "Jared" who was just laid off by the fat cats at Skynet. Jared v.1.3 asked if it would be cool to grow a marijuana garden, just like the POTUS already has.

The response:

"No, I don’t think that is a good strategy to grow our economy," he said.




Guess pot won't be legal until we can come up with real patriotic slogans for it like Freedom Fried or Liberty Leaves.

Friday, March 14, 2008

Sci-Fi Inspiration



From io9:

Some of the most awesome science fiction machines ever conceived for film, like the turbo-tank AT-ATs from Empire Strikes Back, were inspired by things the concept designers saw every day. You may already know that George Lucas was allegedly inspired to create the AT-ATs by these cargo lifters at the Port of Oakland -- but did you know the T-1000 "liquid metal" Terminator was inspired by chocolate fudge? Find out which strangely ordinary items inspired eight of the coolest science fiction machines, and be humbled.

via io9

Monday, February 18, 2008

Sleep Waking




From Slashdot:

Fernando Orellana and Brendan Burns have collaborated on a new art work which investigates one of the possible human-robot relationships.

Using recorded brainwave activity and eye movements during REM (rapid eye movement) sleep to determine robot behaviors and head positions, "Sleep Waking" acts as a way to "play-back" dreams.




via Slashdot

Tuesday, February 5, 2008

Robot Inspects Body of Alleged Terrorist


photo via Getty

io9 reports:

Yesterday in Israel, a bomb disposal robot inspected the scene of a suicide bombing at a shopping mall in the town of Dimona. The bot is remote controlled, and used an articulated arm to remove the jacket of the alleged bomber to be sure he doesn't have more explosives on his body. Want to see what else the robot does as it finishes its inspection of the area?

via io9