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More robot news. Robots are neat. This one just runs around ‘tasting’ blocks, and isn’t pre-programmed. My dog also does similar stuff, but poops more.

You feel like a geek/dork. Then, randomly, you run across a story about people crying because of a cut-scene in a video game, and you definitely feel like more of a man.
Not that crying is an un-manly thing, but because crying due to a video game is a very borderline-crazy thing. At least […]

LG’s new breathalyzer phone is good for doing shots with.
We’re just one step closer to a phone that you can set to not allow drunk-dials.

I freaking love these guys. Brilliantly taking money from people and doing outRAGEous stuff in a smart manner of genius.
That’ll show The Man. And by “The Man”, I mean…uh. Corporate pig-dog America something-something.
Smashing shit is just cool. That’s the point.

So, I’m a pseudo home theater geek. Pseudo, only because I lack the proper amount of disposible income to get into it “propa”. I rock the Yamaha/Polk sound combo, and the Samsung DLP. Nothing incredible, but the Jones’s are all like whoa. Granted, Mr. Jones also lives in a cardboard box.
I […]

Good ole Stevie J. came with da quickness and plopped down the video iPod today.
For those times when you absolutely, positively, must pay $1.99 to watch the new U2 video on the train.
Now, I’m wondering what’s next though? This was a pretty obvious evolution after the (dumb) photo iPod. If Apple […]

So, you didn’t win the DARPA ‘05 Grand Challenge. *sob*. That doesn’t mean you can’t cash in on the excitement and get that loser robot out of your sight.
Team Buffalo is offering up their modified autonomous ATV up on eBay. The practical uses I can think of for the thing are scaring […]

So, let’s just say you have $20M USD to hop on a Russian space flight. What kind of buyer’s remose would you have if it sucked?
Say you got up there, and all you did was sit around and look out the window for two days, and eat crappy food and hang out […]

Well, the robots have finally done it. 4 teams finished the DARPA Grand Challenge this year, with Stanford taking the big prize in their VW Touareg R5.
Pretty freaking neat that we went from a bunch of flipped-over dead robot cars last year that barely went anywhere, to having four different teams totally […]

Personally, I’ve got my money on Rocky in the 8th. Rocky will easily smash the plastic discs into smaller pieces of plastic, even with Blu-ray’s wicked strong coating.
After Rocky leaves though, I think HD DVD is going to be the winner. Here’s my reasoning:
1. Cheaper manufacturing costs.
HD DVD is based on the […]