Archive for April, 2008
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Sunday, April 27th, 2008
Bionic Hand Unveiled in Britain
“A new hope has arrived for amputees that would make Luke Skywalker feel right at home: a highly advanced bionic hand controlled by a patient’s mind and muscles.”
New Prosthetic Hand So Nimble an Amputee Can Type
“Unlike similar models that allowed gripping with just the thumb and one or two fingers, the [...]
The Six Million Dollar Man
Saturday, April 26th, 2008The intro…
“Gentlemen, we can rebuild him. We have the technology. We have the capability to make the world’s first bionic man. Steve Austin will be that man. Better than he was before. Better. Stronger. Faster.”
Six Million Dollar Man Intro video
What can we buy for 6 million dollars today?
I would like to be rebuilt.
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Depressed Robots
Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008Will artificial intelligence and robotics eventually improve to the point that robots will have the same psychological problems as humans?
In The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, Marvin is a very bored robot that only gets to perform menial tasks. He has a “brain the size of a planet” and the [...]
Titanic Survivor Hates Doctor Who
Wednesday, April 16th, 2008amctv.com SciFi Scanner:
Milvina Dean, the last still-living survivor of the Titanic (which sank in 1912), has come out passionately against the latest Doctor Who Christmas special, “Voyage of the Damned…” an episode which doesn’t actually take place on the historic Titanic at all, but on a spaceship named Titanic.
Titanic sank on April 15.
The Thumbtanic movie [...]
Star Wars Lightsaber PSA
Tuesday, April 15th, 2008A public service announcement from the Jedi Council.
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