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POPSClunker Debunker: Program’s Illusory Success This is why the federal government should not own businesses. They can authorize giving money to buyers of their products. Chrysler would have benefited from this program had it been in place when Chrysler dealers were losing their long-time family owned businesses. Also, some of these so called clunkers are in better shape than vehicles used by humanitarian programs delivering food and medical assistance to shut ins. It would have been nice to hook these people up. But, I’m sure politicians will give a host of ‘good’ reasons for doing it all this way.
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POPSPentagon Developing Shape-Shifting 'Transformers' for Battlefield Way Cool stuff. The medical applications for this type of thing could be incredible. Granted that this is more material science than Tissue ReEngineering, but similar principles. Imagine the potential for transportation, where vehicles could expand or contract based on the need of the driver (small size for 1 person) or it's soccer night and a SUV size is needed, presto - all from the same block of "stuff". Sooo much postive stuff. So long as they don't turn into The Replicators as on Stargate SG-1 :-)
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POPSIntel Plans Tiny Energy Suckers to Watch Environs Now, whether or not you think that littering the planet with billions of micro-spies is a good idea, you must admit that highly granular environmental data could be a good thing. Just don't let your employer squirt one into your arm.
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POPSEvolution Online - FREE Web-Based Game Evo online features in-depth coding and user algorithms to make game play as immersible as possible. Lots of time and imagination has been invested and users can create accounts for free. This is version 5, so you know the development process has been well under way for quite some time...give it a shot, its free!
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POPS Robots and Humans: Intel say equal by 2050
Robots: From the Factory Floor to Your Kitchen - Robots today are primarily used in the factory environment, designed to perform a single task repeatedly and bolted down. To make robotics personal, robots need to move and manipulate objects in cluttered and dynamic human environments, according to Rattner. They need to be cognizant of their surroundings by sensing and recognizing movement in a dynamic physical world, and learn to adapt to new scenarios. Rattner demonstrated two working personal robot prototypes developed at Intel’s research labs. One of the demonstrations showed electric field pre-touch that has been built into a robot hand. The technique is a novel sensing modality used by fish but not humans, so they can “feel” objects before they even touch them. The other demonstration was a complete autonomous mobile manipulation robot that can recognize faces and interpret and execute commands as generic as “please clean this mess” using state-of-the-art motion planning, manipula
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POPSJohn McCain Campaign Takes a +3 Vorpal Blade to Dungeons & Dragons Players Cont.... But it does raise the obvious question: If John McCain were a D&D character, what kind would he be? Our money is on some sort of shape-shifting offshore drill monster. But what you do think? Submit your McCain inspired D&D creature below: Pick a name, decide what kind of damage he can inflict in combat, and don't forget his special powers. Vote on your favorites. Threat Level will incorporate the winning entry into our next dungeon map, which is set in the vast caverns lurking beneath the Old Executive Office Building.
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POPSMoving Skyscrapers The world's first moving building, a 80-storey tower with revolving floors giving an shifting shape.
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POPSRobots inspired by animals Robots inspired by animals, ranging from a robotic salamander, mechanical cockroaches to swarms of tiny robots that can be manipulated with electromagnetic forces to create various forms.
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POPSSwarm robotics (videos) Some videos, with an introduction and examples of swarm robotics, a field of study based on the supposition that simple, individual robots can interact and collaborate to form a single artificial organism with more advanced group intelligence.
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POPSCarr on IT changing human intellect
If this higher consciousness were to be some form of emergent group consciousness, then we wouldn't "see" it unless we were part of that self-deluding component of the mind which kids on that it is self aware and has an executive role. If we are any other strand of thought, we would continue to perform our roles, oblivious to the fact that we were a component of a higher consciousness. Probably ;-) Is the sleep of reason necessarily a bad thing? Is rational argument actually any better than rhetorical, or was it a necessary substitute for the immediacy of social connectivity which allows the rhetoric to flourish again? If "we're lapsing into a dream state", doesn't this imply that we are either all doing it individually (I'm not...) or 'we' constitute parts of a whole which can dream? What sorts of things can dream? I agree that our mode of consumption shapes our intellects - everything we do does. But I don't think we should write our intellectual lives off just yet.
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