April 16, 2008

Iron Man trailer to be made into feature length film…er…it kind of has something to do with robots

Filed under: robot news — Dirkin @ 7:59 pm

How to duck and cover from a global oil shortage.

Filed under: Doomsday — jaakan @ 6:15 pm

duck and cover image“Your safe haven must be self-sufficient and capable of growing some kind of food,” Mr. Biggs writes. “It should be well-stocked with seed, fertilizer, canned food, wine, medicine, clothes, etc. Think Swiss Family Robinson. Even in America and Europe there could be moments of riot and rebellion when law and order temporarily completely breaks down.”

Here is a New York Times article about the new breed of survivalist. One who grows his own food and takes his home off the power grid in preparation for the coming apocalypse. Reminds me of someone I know….The article

Did we win the war against the machines? “Almost”

Filed under: robot news — DaveO70 @ 6:10 pm

Sean Connolly takes on RuBot II at the UK open Rubik’s Championships 2006.

 

Are We Giving Robots Too Much Power?

Filed under: robot news — DaveO70 @ 6:00 pm

Panelists discuss whether controversial decisions by the Robot Congress and President Executron indicate robots have too much control over our lives.

April 15, 2008

This is America…

Filed under: Bizarre — Dirkin @ 7:25 pm

Slideshow of abandoned malls on Flickr.

http://flickr.com/search/show/?q=abandoned+malls

More Machine now than Man…

Filed under: robot news — jaakan @ 6:53 pm

The guy who invented the Segway is building a better cyborg.  Check it out.

Superman…is that you?

Filed under: Bizarre — Dirkin @ 1:03 pm

This is just crazy…a guy in England took an X-Ray image of an office building. The image is startling.

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Read about it at the Daily Mail

** Turns out the office image is a fake, it’s the other images on the page that are

Kalashnikov alarm system: robots beware

Filed under: Stupid Ideas — Dirkin @ 1:14 am

An Afghani electrical engineer wired up a way for his cellphone to control a AK-47 remotely to deter would be thieves…I’m thinking this has a better purpose in the war with the mindless robot hordes…or zombies. Both of which you want to be as far away as possible. Of course by the time we have a use for this, the cell network will most likely been overtaken by the robots to control the zombies.

More on the Gizmodo (you’re probably thinking, why don’t I just read Gizmodo…I have no answer).

April 14, 2008

Nuclear powered cars can save us all

Filed under: asplode — charlie @ 7:31 pm

This is the 1958 Ford designed Nucleon, a concept nuclear powered car that could go a minimum of 5000 miles before needing to recharge its core.  America would be number-one-awesome today if we had nuclear powered cars.

We could have had nuclear powered toasters, washing machines, MP3 players, pacemakers, blenders, lawnmowers, and anything else we could have fit a nuclear reactor into by now.

Only the Nucleon can save America from high gas prices, Middle East war, and a tanking economy.

German Mine Asploding

Filed under: asplode — Dirkin @ 2:07 pm

A WWII German Mine, dropped by airplane, was uncovered off the cost of England and asploded MythBusters style.  Now imagine an LCV hitting that thing…

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