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Can it be?
Can the world’s most famous BlackBerry addict — Karl Rove himself — really be using an iPhone?
We’re one step closer to robotic limbs:
…to actually control the hand, the researchers relied on neural activity recorded from a monkey’s brain. According to MIT’s Technology Review, that resulted in the fingers on the hand performing their intended movement about 95 percent of the time. While the system doesn’t currently work in real time, the [...]
The “paperless office” hasn’t worked out so well, has it? At work, the guy from the copier leasing company and I joke about this as I write him checks totaling tens of thousands of dollars a year (yes, yes… I have a humorless office).
Anyway, it turned out that computers made it really easy [...]
Those Whimsical Googly Eyes Get Stuck On The Craziest Things*
Posted by Contrarian on June 1st, 2007
Google’s roving band of video-equipped Beetles is pulling up some funny stuff:
Ms. Kalin-Casey, who manages an apartment building here with her husband, John Casey, was a bit shaken when she tried a new feature in Google’s map service called Street View. She typed in her address and the screen showed a street-level view of her [...]
I Am Your Robot And I’m Programmed To Love You, My Serial Number Is 44357
Posted by Contrarian on March 23rd, 2007
In the future, robots will be everywhere:
Long Island Jewish Hospital patient John Hevrank was able to tell his doctor he was feeling better after bladder cancer surgery last week, even though his physician was in another building.
Hevrank was actually speaking to one of three 5-foot tall robots that the hospital is testing. The robot [...]
It’s been a bad week for Wikipedia, folks. First, Middlebury college’s history department bans the collaborative encyclopedia after several students get the same question wrong on a history quiz (all got their info from Wikipedia).
Then, Andy Schafly, son of conservative gadfly Phyllis, launches Conservapedia, which is just like Wikipedia, except without all [...]
New York State Senator Carl Kruger wants to fine you $100 for distractedly crossing the street while listening to your iPod. Awesome.
But why stop there? The real killer, in my mind, is electric vehicles like the Toyota Prius. With their internal combustion engines switched off, these things appear by stealth. You [...]
Good to know I’m not the only one who thinks this is totally rad:
The XXX industry has gotten too graphic, even for its own tastes.
Pornography has long helped drive the adoption of new technology, from the printing press to the videocassette. Now pornographic movie studios are staying ahead of the curve by releasing high-definition DVDs.
They [...]
One of the best examples of the improper use of e-mail that we’ve seen in some time:
Hundreds of would-be staffers in Gov. Spitzer’s administration were nervously biting their nails yesterday after an e-mail address list of job seekers accidentally became public.
One applicant, with strong ties to Assembly Republicans, told The Post he feared he [...]
I just upgraded my laptop to a MacBook, and thus, the global headquarters of Bruno and the Prof has received a giant infrastructure upgrade.
In the process of downloading all the new drivers, I came across this questionnaire on the site:
The first and fourth questions sound particularly intriguing. The idea of collaborating online [...]
Now Playing: Episode 360
Biden and Palin square off while international intrigue heats up in Africa and the Middle East.
Links Mentioned: Africom … Frank Rich on Palin …
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