⇒ Robot + balance = win

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⇒ JSEL: jamming skin enabled locomotion

excellent concept and execution. I look forward to seeing how far they take this and apply it.

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⇒ ActiveLink's power loader

yeah, it's all well and good until a lab accident and then BOOM! Now you got a supervillain on your hands!

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⇒ robotic pancake picker

where do get those wonderful toys?

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⇒ robot learns to crawl

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⇒ HAL exoskeleton inches closer

It will be available soon enough. I know I've posted about this before but I love that promo shot above. It's so dynamic, what with the blue glowing accents and clean white design, and the I-just-did-something-impossible pose

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⇒ robo footpath

if they make these 20 times faster and 10 times larger, you might really have something.

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⇒ the Little Prince

"hey, where's the thingy?"
"PLANT"
"right, right; where's the plant?"

relatedly: huggy bear

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⇒ Honda's ASIMO runs the gauntlet

wait a minute, didn't I see you fall down some stairs?

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⇒ robots be mackin'

thomas and janet - the first 2 robots to 'kiss'

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⇒ Exciting Robotics

Can't wait to see this thing speed-shuffle/do the Bishop-knife thing/speed-piano

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⇒ are you sure there is a little person inside the suit?

toyota-bot top-speed: 7km/h
me: 16km/h

me:1, toyota-bot:0

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⇒ things

not so long ago, the world freaked out about bird/avian flu. Now, the worm has turned and we're on about swine/pig flu. Is this really real? Are any of these 'pandemics' real? How do we know it's not the machinations of a matermind? An invention of the media? HOW!?!?

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/04/30/2556732.htm

http://www.tennis.com/features/general/features.aspx?id=172144

amazing robotics from festo:


get eclipse IDE here:
http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/http://www.eclipseplugincentral.com/http://www.epic-ide.org/download.phphttp://download.eclipse.org/tools/cdt/builds/6.0.0/I.I200903161435/index.html

Apple developer samples:
http://developer.apple.com/samplecode/Games/idxGraphicsImaging-date.htmlhttp://developer.apple.com/samplecode/Cocoa/idxJava-date.htmlhttp://developer.apple.com/samplecode/Cocoa/idxGames-date.htmlhttp://developer.apple.com/samplecode/InternetWeb/index.htmlhttp://developer.apple.com/samplecode/Performance/index.htmlhttp://developer.apple.com/samplecode/Carbon/index.htmlhttp://developer.apple.com/samplecode/GraphicsImaging/index.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1172810/The-yoga-supergran-bend-backwards-age-83.html

http://fathom.lib.uchicago.edu/2/21701757/

http://www.theage.com.au/news/technology/biztech/facebook-puts-heavyweight-in-charge/2009/04/29/1240982283716.html

http://www.theage.com.au/news/technology/biztech/google-named-australias-best-place-to-work/2009/04/29/1240982266605.html

http://www.wordofmouthexperiment.com/dedpyhto/tests/Logic-test.html

http://www.wordofmouthexperiment.com/dedpyhto/tests/tibetian/index.htm

http://filmdrunk.uproxx.com/2009/04/watchmen-outgrossed-batman-robin

http://www.websudoku.com/?level=3
font time!

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Wild Animals: A Survival Guide





more leftover thoughts:
Yamakasi
Spatial_awareness
Freerunning
David_Belle
Parkour
(Where_Do_I_Begin?)_Love_Story


morning
afternoon
night
late night

http://www.sbs.com.au/blogarticle/108908/SOS-shorts-online
http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2008/12/ask_vulture_which_new_holocaus.html
http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/22/video-teenagers-new-i-limb-prosthetic-hand-is-super-cool/
http://soulsg.wordpress.com/2008/12/16/youve-been-hit-by-been-struck-by-voldo/
federer not best


Pea coat wiki

Nadal gets #1 by thinking he's #2
Rafael Nadal finishes the revolution with Roger Federer win
Deal With the Devil
tennis clobber through the ages

voldo boogey-ing down to smooth criminal
this reminds me of 'derelicte' from zoolander
bacon flavored salt
one billion dollars
fancy compressed air watch
The Unbreakable Walking-Stick Umbrella





auto-tuned news:



Shock doc's new electrifying party trick

cyberslacking boosts productivity

US jury orders Microsoft to pay $500m to Australian inventor

food inc opening sequence


full blocking tape for serenity bar fight (which was unfortunately edited down):


new Gundam:

1/60 Perfect Grade Gundam Astray Red Frame Initial Production Version


1/100 MG Sword Impulse Gundam


GFF Metal Composite MSZ-006A1/C1[Bst] Zplus Red


SDX Full Armor Knight Gundam


xkcd

your argument is incorrect! games as art...and here's an article about violence by JG Ballard

I've suddenly decided to get serious about programming...don't know why, 5 years after the fact, too, but well, here we go, Eclipse stuff:
installing Eclipse
installing plugins
add JARs to build paths
create new JAVA project in Eclipse
making an Applet
getting started in JAVA
programming in JAVA
gettting started in C++
creating RSS feeds
getting started in Perl
using AJAX
arrays in Flash
graphics in JAVA applets
math in C++



most watched viral videos

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⇒ starred items

alaris 3D printer:


Liquavista tech market ready. I think this is about 8 years too late. If it happened when mobile phones were still mostly two-tone, I'm sure the two techs would have grown together and pushed each other further than individually possible. See a tech demo and design your own here

NEC autostereoscopy? 3D sans glasses:

Plywood laptop case. Really doesn't seem that useful

Atomic Pen.

Casio digital camera. Does 1000 frames per second!

I feel this way about any and every tool that must show off their iPhone

Sleek portable Blu-Ray burner for Macs. . If you want to take out a couple of hours to burn a Blu-Ray, then yeah, go ahead.

Now this looks Fisher-Price!

Lacie's network drives. Sweet design.









keyboard eavesdropping | custom liquid cooled cases. Run you up a couple of grand tho... | Microsoft versioning. If Windows 4.90.3000 were a person, I'd stab them in the eye. F#ck i hate Windows ME! | iFixit take apart new MacBooks and MacBook Pros | Apple's notebook unveiling roundup | Bandai Peri Peri keychain. Yeah, I have no idea why either. | Dancing robot |

Games I might enjoy on PS3:
Uncharted, MGS4, Bioshock, LittleBigPlanet

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⇒ g reader stuff

spore metareview
giant mech spider

from here | sony DSLR
Spore ads from here

Fallout 3 survival guide throwback to 50s design
teddy phone | Wipeout HD. Curious only because my family went HD back in August...new games aren't doing it for me...I see very little innovation these days... | new game with artistry: Machinarium...haven't seen something like this since those LucasArts point and click games of yesteryear...see clip below:

Machinarium Preview from Amanita Design on Vimeo.


Wii Music Marimba...looks ok...I really feel strongly about physical feedback when doing stuff like this...air-playing just aint the same...

MAC hints: back up to UNIX a DMG folder | script to track stolen MACs | fix quicktime audio | TextMate template development

Coke bringing out soda fountains | Toshiba shows off gesture controlled TVs. Does this mean we have to 'learn' how to use it? I mean presumably, everyone knows how to push a button, why not just implement button icon and layout standards? | Double sided transparent touch display | Video game de-makes | Wireless sound. No, I don't mean radio | Dead space animated comic |


new attitude? Can be bothered!

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⇒ stuff from all over

giant mech spider http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/05/la-machines-spider-mech-traipses-through-the-streets-of-liverpo/


space invaders keyboard: http://technabob.com/blog/2008/09/02/space-invaders-bendi-keyboard-who-says-aliens-inflexible/

PS2 recycling program http://www.kotaku.com.au/games/2008/09/your_playstation_2_trash_becomes_furniture_treasure-2.html
ScummVMM on consoles http://www.kotaku.com.au/games/2008/09/scummvm_now_officially_supports_the_wii_and_gamecube-2.html

Streetfighter IV website: http://www.streetfighter.com/flash/
new game not impressing me much...

Silent Hill homecoming 1st boss: http://www.kotaku.com.au/games/2008/09/silent_hill_homecoming__the_first_boss_fight-2.html

line rider: http://linerider.com/

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⇒ ideas and memories

production design and sketches for cinema projects by James Carson: http://www.jamescarsondesign.com/

Sci-Fi
http://io9.com/367603/eight-of-the-oddest-inspirations-for-the-coolest-science-fiction-machines

http://io9.com/368902/two-kickass-giant-robot-movies-we-want-to-see-right-now

http://io9.com/339315/impossible-skyscrapers-and-one-hippodrome
http://io9.com/
http://www.sff.net/people/Geoffrey.Landis/vacuum.html

graphic design www.shinybinary.com/

fond childhood partial-memories: I clearly remember going on a book binge at about 7 or 8 years old and spending a substantial amount of my personal fortune (all $40 or so) in one fell swoop and being chastised for it. Now that I think about it, shouldn't that be a good thing? Kids wanting to read?

Anyhoo, the first real author I can remember who made me want to read was Paul Jennings. I got through Unreal! without too much difficulty continually re-borrowed it from the school library. It was that good.

Eventually, on a school excursion to a book fair, I picked up Unbearable!, Unbelievable! and Uncanny!, in pretty much that order (time difference of seconds). They were $4 each, terrific investment.

I wonder where those books are now? I still remember some of the stories and covers. Unbearable! had a kid wearing a gilted birdcage and was primarily green. There were characters in the background pointing and laughing. Unbelievable! had a punk-ghost on the cover turning stuff inside out. It was a dark cover, mostly an off-black. Uncanny! I don't exactly recall the cover but I do remember that it was the thickest of the three. That and it may or may not have been green.

Down the line, I ended up reading Undone! Unmentionable, Round the Twist, Quirky Tales, The Gizmo and plenty of Jennings' other works, such as Grandad's Gifts. The Cabbage Patch Fib became a class production (which failed miserably)--I provided the prop poop (heh heh).

No idea why the onset of nostalgia suddenly hit me...good times...

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⇒ just, stuff

http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/16/researchers-using-viruses-to-build-nano-electronics/
http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/16/darpas-robotic-arm-demoed/
http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/16/nokias-s60-touch-interface-demonstrated/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Googlewhack

3 days of 0.90...for three days in october, AUD hit 0.90 USD...

some things Google-y:
http://www.googlewhack.com/nack.htm
http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/topic.py?topic=8843
http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=33570&topic=8846
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robots.txt


http://kotaku.com/gaming/pumpkin/pumpkichu-gives-us-nightmares-312227.php
http://kotaku.com/gaming/pumpkin/katamari-rolls-up-halloween-spirit-312233.php
http://kotaku.com/gaming/pumpkin/halo-finish-the-pumpkin-311869.php
http://kotaku.com/gaming/more-pumpkins/space-invaders-immortalized-in-pumpkin-311971.php
http://kotaku.com/index.php?refId=312226
http://www.streetfighterworld.com/
http://www.eventhubs.com/guides/2007/sep/30/how-get-better-street-fighter-3-third-strike/

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⇒ aussie $

auusie $ hits record high of $0.89 US

http://www.kawaiidream.net/categories.php?cat_id=329&sessionid=528470263da8a7fb7f74d12c60658ba2&sessionid=528470263da8a7fb7f74d12c60658ba2
http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/01/usb-powered-whack-a-mole-annihilates-productivity/
http://www.joystiq.com/2007/09/30/tgs-video-games-museum-highlights-japans-taste/
http://www.joystiq.com/photos/zelda-phantom-hourglass-launch/419978/
http://www.joystiq.com/2007/10/01/tgs07-interview-with-loco-rocos-tsutomu-kouno/
http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.takaratomy.co.jp%2Fproducts%2Fwalkiebits%2Fproducts%2Frhythm.html&langpair=ja%7Cen&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&prev=%2Flanguage_tools

http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/01/study-finds-roomba-owners-heart-their-vacuums-accept-flaws/

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⇒ swimmin

gymmed yesterday. overall disappointed with performance. but i did manage to bench 60 a couple of times. that's among the handful of other times i've ever done it. nice...swim felt good...poor performance, but the water felt cool, not cold.

http://www.joystiq.com/2007/09/28/wii-sports-tops-2007-bafta-nominees/
http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/28/panoramic-gigapan-images-to-hit-google-earth/
http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/28/visa-rolls-out-paywave-enabled-micro-tag-key-fobs/
http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/27/longest-ever-space-tether-fails-to-deploy-flings-capsule-toward/

pour uni:
http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/28/robot-museum-in-nagoya-japan-our-first-and-last-visit/
http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/28/air-driven-robotic-legs-hop-skip-and-jump/
http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/28/takara-tomys-i-sobot-gets-reviewed-videoed/
http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/28/brandos-palm-phone-jammer-kills-gsm-calls-dead/

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