If you had your own giant robotic arm, a love for racing and way too much time and money on your hands, I’m sure you would do the same as the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics. And by “The Same”, I mean “turn the robotic arm into the world’s most awesome arcade simulation of [...]

As we all know, sooner or later the robots will rise and take over the world. We will be dominated by a super-intelligent global network (or “SkyNet” as I think of it) controlling a robotic army…

Sadly there are humans whom just cannot see that they are directly helping the future enemy by constructing our worst [...]

From the department of “I can’t afford robots, damnit!” comes a papercraft Wall-E that moves when there’s a new mail. Just watch it!

I know it’s cutesy to the point that it’s ideal for kids, but I actually want one of these things. If it were on the market as official merchandise, I’d get it, if [...]

Nvidia’s Nvision 08 has now ended, and obviously there were many technical and graphical things on display at the event that many people in the computing world would care about. Graphics card and CUDA related stuff mostly. [Here endeth the "technical" part of the post...]
Among the other events were a live Diggnation, a lanparty and [...]

And now filed under “I should have placed bets on this happening years ago…”
Nasa’s Phoenix lander has unearthed compelling evidence of ice on Mars, mission scientists believe.
Chunks of a bright material found in a trench dug by the craft have disappeared over four Martian days, suggesting they have vapourised.
[From BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Mars [...]