What the hell is up with fake blue eyes in commercials? Some lousy Father’s Day commercial came on today and I was immediately struck by the little boy with spice addiction. His eyes were glowing blue and when I paused it to get a closer look, it turns out he has no pupils. This crappy [...]
Posts Tagged ‘real sci-fi’
Spice-addicted child stars in commercial
Posted: 17 June 2009 in UncategorizedTags: commercials, dune, humor, rants, real sci-fi, spice addiction
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Aeolus Airship Design
Posted: 21 January 2009 in UncategorizedTags: aeolus, airships, blimps, concepts, design, murder, real sci-fi
I would kill for one of these. Seriously. Unfortunately it’s pie-in-the-sky speculation at the moment. But the day may come when I am asked to make a choice, and if your name comes up, sorry mate.
He’s dead, Jim
Posted: 24 October 2008 in UncategorizedTags: deforest kelley, enterprise, nasa, real sci-fi, shuttles, sociolinguistics, space travel, spaceships, spelling, star trek
Something about this photo speaks to me: Now, I wonder if DeForest Kelley (Dr. McCoy) is really that interested in talking to the NASA engineer-looking dude on the left. It just brings to mind hundreds of conversations between scientists and laymen where the laymen appears interested and the scientist rambles on about stuff way too [...]
A thing of horror
Posted: 10 October 2008 in UncategorizedTags: abomination, androids, creepy, horror, little girls, real sci-fi, robots
If you’re in the mood for some bad dreams, look no further.
Rat cyborg
Posted: 14 August 2008 in UncategorizedTags: ai, artificial intelligence, bioethics, biological computers, cyborgs, neurons, rats, real sci-fi, robotics
Boffins at the University of Reading have created a robot controlled by a biological “brain” consisting of rat neurons. They began by taking a culture of neurons specially separated from the rest of the fetal brain tissue. The neurons are placed across a platter of electrodes that simultaneously allow the brain to control parts of [...]
Manned Cloud
Posted: 31 March 2008 in UncategorizedTags: airships, glen cook, hotels, manned cloud, massaud, real sci-fi
Another cool airship just caught my attention, this one a concept vehicle in the form of a hotel in the sky. It looks a bit like how I imagined the flying manta cloud creatures from the Black Company books by Glen Cook.
Soylent Green
Posted: 29 February 2008 in UncategorizedTags: alternative fuels, artificial life, bioethics, biological warfare, craig venter, genetic engineering, genetics, peak oil, rants, real sci-fi, wet artificial life
Rant warning. Craig Venter is a geneticist who has been working on engineering new organisms and recently spoke at TED. He made news (as every news story you see about him over the past couple days is happy to point out) in 2001 for sequencing his own genome. His current project is in creating a [...]
Behold! The horde…
Posted: 2 February 2008 in UncategorizedTags: claytronics, emergent behavior, real sci-fi, robot uprising, robotics, robots, swarm robots, turing test
If there ever is a robot uprising, I fear I may be at ground zero. In a case where reality mirrors art (kinda sorta), Carnegie Mellon researchers (including Seth Goldstein) are working on a swarm of small robots held together by magnetic fields. This will allow them to take on just about any shape. Of [...]
CMU wins DARPA challenge
Posted: 4 November 2007 in UncategorizedTags: cmu, darpa, darpa urban challenge, gm, real sci-fi, robotics
So yesterday was the big race for the DARPA Urban Challenge. The goal is to research technologies that will lead to autonomous battlefield robots that can deliver supplies while navigating traffic. The joint Carnegie Mellon and General Motors team won, completing the race with no major traffic infractions. This strikes me as one of those [...]
