Today’s non-conformist robots don’t want to work in your factories and vacuum your floors, maaan. These babies were born — or more accurately, carefully constructed in a laboratory — to rock.
First, there were the flying …
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Alternate Universe: Twitter Invented in the ’80s, Facebook in the ’90s
Exciting times, friends: Behold the future, as if it happened in the past – and by “future” I mean “present” instead.
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WATCH: Rescuers Use iPhone to Save Little Boy from Well
In what will hopefully one day become a TV movie, a little boy in China was rescued from a well with the help of an iPhone.
The two-year-old fell down a narrow, 40-foot well in Mengzi City, a small city in China’s Yunnan …
Flying Cars: Finally Here… Kind Of
Whenever I imagine a flying car, which is quite often for some reason, it usually looks like something out of The Jetsons or Back to the Future. Sadly, today’s flying cars look more like lackluster Transformers.
Not that the …
MC Hammer Turns 50: The Relative Rise of an Internet Participator
Today we celebrate the birth of Mr. Stanley Kirk Burrell, known the world over as MC Hammer, who came into this world 50 years ago. This parachute-panted musical hero Hammer-danced his way into our hearts with 1990’s Please …
Researchers Pit Robosquirrel Against Live Rattlesnake
You wouldn’t think a rattlesnake would be afraid of a squirrel and you’d be right — that is, unless the squirrel in question was wagging its tail. That’s what a joint research project between the University of California-Davis and San Diego State University found with the help of their friend Robosquirrel.
Okay, so Robosquirrel is …
WATCH: Kid in Japan Controls Working ‘Real Steel’ Robot
I’ve always believed that our number one goal when it comes to robotics should be to create real-life Rock em’ Sock ’em Robots, as dramatized in the think piece Real Steel, starring Mr. Hugh Jackman.
It appears that the …
Hospital Live-Tweets Entire Open Heart Surgery [WARNING: GRAPHIC]
There are many times when it is inappropriate to tweet. At dinner, for one. In the middle of a movie. And, in most cases, open heart surgery.
Dr. Paresh Patel, however, had a good reason to tweet during a 57-year-old patient’s …
Russian Carrier Holds Contest to See Who Can Download the Most 3G Data
Angry that your carrier put a cap on your data? Maybe you should move to beautiful Russia, where the data flows like caviar and carriers actually encourage people to hog more bandwidth.
That’s what Russian carrier MegaFon did. …
WATCH: Tokyo Department Store Uses Android to Lure Shoppers
Have you, like Andrew McCarthy in Mannequin, ever looked up at a lifeless department store mannequin and wished it would come to life? Well, cue Starship’s “Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now,” because your dream has come true.
Tokyo …
Watch: Ex-Apple Employee Claims Company Puts New Engineers on Fake Projects
I knew Apple had a reputation for secrecy, but this is just crazy. Apparently the folks up at Cupertino are so paranoid about new employees leaking information that they put them to work on fake products until they can be …
Amazon Merchant Offers Free Kindle Fire Cases for Five-Star Reviews
Looking for a discount on Amazon? Try a little underhanded quid pro quo with a shady merchant.
The New York Times has the story of a merchant named VIP Deals that was selling a Kindle Fire case worth $59.99 for under $10. Each …