Gizmodo features this absolutely mind-blowing R2-D2 case mod.
A stunning advance in robot technology
Chassis, the beer pouring robot. We truly live in an age of wonders.
Teenage girls are web’s content queens
Watch out for the teenagers… The New York Times says:
Research shows that among the youngest Internet users, the primary creators of Web content (blogs, graphics, photographs, Web sites) are not misfits resembling the Lone Gunmen of “The X Files.” On the contrary, the cyberpioneers of the moment are digitally effusive teenage girls.
Not that there’s anything wrong with the Lone Gunman. Well… maybe a little. As long as you bathe, boys. Daily.
Sadly, the figures for adult women are not quite as good. At least, when only looking at computer science programs, which seems a bit narrow-minded. I for one have a ‘web job,’ went into school knowing what I wanted and my degree is in fine art. There are a lot of ways to come at technology: Do you really think all those girls making icons and blogging and podcasting are going to go major in computer science? If they want to continue their hobbies professionally they’ll go for something a lot more specialized.
Real space: Satellite goes boom
You may have heard that the U.S. Navy shot down a satellite last night. The Pentagon released video of the launch and boom this morning.
Video du jour: We like the moon
In honor of the eclipse tonight, an internet classic: Spongmonkeys.
The most important survey of our time, or not
Half the men in the UK would swap sex for a 50-inch plasma TV, compared to only a third of women. So, ladies, the obvious question: What would you swap half a year of sex for?
Behold: The holo cube!
Okay, so it’s not going to set the world on fire or anything, and on the video the whole 3-D aspect just isn’t working, but still – holo-cube!
In the News: Prosthetics, people and Sidi Driss
- Science! Luke Skywalker lends name to ‘Luke’ prosthetic arm, now ready for clinical trails. (via)
- People: Variety profiles Harrison Ford; The San Francisco Bay Guardian interviews Carrie Fisher, who starts serving up ‘Wishful Drinking’ in Berkeley Friday night.
- RIP: Star Wars Holiday Special producer Dwight Hemion died in January. Aside from the Holiday Special, he had a fair distinguished career, winning 18 Emmys.
- Fail: Ben Stubbs of The Sydney Morning Herald goes to Tunisia, namechecks Star Wars, but rather fails on the facts.
Don’t these people watch Stargate?!
Researchers are Carnegie-Mellon University are working on “electromagnetic microscopic bots that cling together and can assume virtually any shape.”
Replicators! Geez, people. Have you learned nothing from the Asgard?
Begun, the human cloning has…
Five of the new embryos grew in laboratory dishes to the stage that fertility doctors consider ready for transfer to a woman’s womb: a degree of development that clones of adult humans have never achieved before.
No one knows whether those embryos were healthy enough to grow into babies. But the study leader, who is also the medical director of a fertility clinic, said they looked robust, even as he emphasized that he has no interest in cloning people.
Lack of interest in human cloning: UR DOIN IT WRONG.