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Mind-Control Machines

Jilly Gagnon | Posted 11.12.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Subliminal Messages, Evil Robots, Comedy and Satire, Comedy and Humor, Energy Use Robot, Humor, Satire, Energy Use, Icat, Subliminal Messaging, Robots, Humor and Satire, Helper Robots, Comedy, Cats, Comedy News
Jilly Gagnon

Hell, owner. My name is iCat, and it's my job to advise you on energy use. Use me once and you'll never want to leave me ever again.

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AUEs: Miniature Robots To Swarm The Oceans For Science

LiveScience | Posted 11.11.2009 | Technology

Read More: National Science Foundation, AUEs Ocean, AUE Oceans, NSF Ocean Research, Autonomous Underwater Explorers, Robots, AUE Ocean, Ocean Exploration, AUEs, Technology News

Swarms of soup-can-sized robots will soon plunge into the ocean seeking data on poorly understood phenomena from currents to biology. ...

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6 Insane Laws We'll Need In The Future

cracked.com | Posted 11.09.2009 | Technology

Read More: Funny Lists, Future Laws, Androids, Future, Insane Laws, Robots, Genetic Engineering, Technology News

From the war on drugs to gay marriage to file sharing, it seems like the law is in a continual, often losing, battle to keep up with the modern world....

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Mood Tail: A Robotic Tail For Humans (VIDEO)

Posted 10.14.2009 | Technology

Read More: Robot Tail, Human Tail, Robot Human Tail, Robots, Robo Human Tail, Robotic Human Tail, Mood Tail, Technology News

Opposable thumbs are pretty nifty. Walking upright is pretty cool too. But there's something we humans have always lacked: a tail. The Mood Tail -- ...

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Who Keeps Fighting if the Troops Leave Afghanistan?

Jairus Grove | Posted 10.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama Peace Prize, Obama Afghanistan, Afghanistan War, Warwire, Human Rights, Robots, Pakistan, Pakistan Drone Attacks, Technology, Nobel Peace Prize, Politics News
Jairus Grove

I have no idea what a drone sounds like. What I do know is that every child in the territory of Waziristan must talk about it constantly. This is slow sadistic torture.

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New Reissues Prove Kraftwerk Is the Most Important Band Ever

Tim Mohr | Posted 10.08.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Yaz, Egyptian Lover, Dr. Dre, Kraftwerk, Techno, Space Disco, Frankie Knuckles, Lil Jon, Chemical Brothers, Astralwerks, Chicago House, Cybotron, Detroit Techno, Music, Electro, Reissue, Acid House, Germany, Planet Rock, Crystal Castles, Autobahn, Tim Mohr, Robots, Trans Europe Express, Berlin, Afrika Bambaataa, Donna Summers, Italo Disco, Modernism, Glass Candy, Krautrock, Italians Do It Better, Supernature, Dirty Disco, Heartsrevolution, I Feel Love, Daft Punk, Dusseldorf, Fatboy Slim, Silver Apples, Crunk, House, Yazoo, Peaches, Punk, Moog, Machine Music, Nwa, Neon Workout, Cerrone, Heartbreak, Ramones, Synth, Perrey-Kingsley, Lfo, Lmfao, Lo-Fi, Animal Collective, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Electroclash, Entertainment News
Tim Mohr

The birthplace of all that's cool and modern in music wasn't Memphis, Liverpool or the South Bronx. It was Dusseldorf, Germany, where Kraftwerk invented the future we are now living.

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CEATEC's Best Robots Ever (PHOTOS, POLL)

Posted 10.06.2009 | Technology

Read More: Ceatec, Slidepoll, Japanese Robots, CEATEC 2009, Future Tech, CEATEC 2009 Robots, Robots, CEATEC Robots, Technology News

CEATEC 2009 launches October 6, and in honor of the cutting-edge tech and consumer-electronics show (which has wowed us year after year ) we decided t...

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My "Surrie" With the Fringe on Top

Jared Gardner | Posted 10.01.2009 | New York

Read More: Bruce Willis, Comics, Graphic Novels, Technology, Surrogates, Robots, Movies, Adaptation, Films, San Diego Comic-Con, Robert Venditti, Graphic Novel Movies, Brett Weldele, New York News
Jared Gardner

I love opening weekend for new comics movies like Surrogates. For brief but increasingly frequent moments in the course of a year I have a perfect excuse to evangelize about comics.

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Robot Hunts Toxic Waste Dumped By Mafia Off Italian Coast

AP | Posted 11.15.2009 | Green

Read More: Mafia Toxic Waste, Mafia, Italy, Robot Submarine, Robots, Green News

ROME — Italian authorities have dispatched a robot submarine with a video camera to a shipwreck off the Calabrian coast to see if if it's carryi...

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Republicans Lying to Old People About Euthanasia, Robots

Bob Cesca | Posted 08.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Evan Bayh, Republican Lies, Public Option, Rush Limbaugh, John Boehner, Health Insurance, Mary Landrieu, Obama Health Care, Sean Hannity, Health Care Reform, Harry Reid, Max Baucus, Joe Lieberman, Health Care, Robots, Virginia Foxx, Republicans, Blue Dog Democrats, Politics News
Bob Cesca

Republicans would have you believe that all the debate about making health insurance more affordable is merely subterfuge in the White House's scheme to impose a final solution to the nation's elderly problem.

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Apollo 11 Politiku

Susanna Speier | Posted 08.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Charles J. Pellerin, Fraser Thomson, Richard Speier, Bob Fish, Rod Pyle, Tara-Gray-Burkholder, Lunar Landing, Collins, Von Braun, Neil Armstrong, Nasa, Moon, Apollo 11, Robots, 40th Anniversary, Eagle, Aldrin, Astronaut, Hornet, Sam Saltoun, Ellen Briggs Stansell, Jerome Coopersmith, Ralph Dannheisser, Karen Goldner, Irene Cullen Gravina, Randi Cecchine, Jacqueline Church Simonds, V. Alison Taylor, Michael O'Brien, Politics News
Susanna Speier

In honor of the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11's moon landing, individuals with NASA affiliations that range from astronaut to intern condensed the seminal event into 17 syllable historiographies.

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Military EATR Robot Could Feed On Dead Bodies On Battlefield

Fox News | Posted 08.15.2009 | World

Read More: Iraq War, US Military, Robotic Technology Inc., Military, War Wire, Foreign Affairs, Technology, Robots, Afghanistan War, Advocacy, Eatr, World News

It could be a combination of 19th-century mechanics, 21st-century technology -- and a 20th-century horror movie. A Maryland company under contract to...

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Jason Linkins

Military EATR: Contractor Working On Horrifying Corpse-Eating Robots [UPDATE]

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 08.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Terrifying Glimpses of Future Doom, Horrifying, Robots, Military Contractors, Politics News

UPDATE: Good news, via FastCompany. Fox, who was the source of this terrifying story, now says, "contrary to reports, including one that appeared on F...

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Panasonic Builds Medical Robot That Dispenses Drugs

AP | Posted 08.07.2009 | Business

Read More: Panasonic, Robots, Panisonic Robot, Medical Robot, Business News

TOKYO — Panasonic Corp. said Tuesday has developed a medical robot that dispenses drugs to patients, the Japanese electronics giant's first step...

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U.S. Department of Defense to Use Hummingbirds as Spies

Levi Novey | Posted 08.07.2009 | Green

Read More: US Military, Aircraft, Military, Department of Defense, Hummingbird, Spies, Birds, Spying, Technology, Robots, Robot, Green News
Levi Novey

Robotic hummingbirds will be able to discretely enter areas where people would not be able to go without being detected and will look so realistic that people could easily be fooled.

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Guest Blogger, William Pomerantz: Our Robotic Overlords

Peter Diamandis | Posted 06.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: Xprize, FIRST Robotics National Championship, William Pomerantz, Robots, Google Lunar X Prize, X Prize, Politics News
Peter Diamandis

With kids like these, the future will always look bright, no matter how dark the present seems. The world needs a generation of champions for change, and that's exactly what today's youth are.

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Intelligent Robo-Penguins Take To Seas, Skies (VIDEO)

NewScientist | Posted 05.24.2009 | Green

Read More: Video, Bionic Penguins, Flying Penguins, Robo-Penguins, Animals, Penguins, Robots, Germany, Green News

I like penguins and I like robots. So imagine my delight when I discovered this NewScientist story -- and video -- about bionic penguins. Using the...

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The Dawn of Robot Wars

Eric Stoner | Posted 05.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Iraq, Drones, Robots, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Barack Obama, War Robots, Politics News
Eric Stoner

With little public scrutiny, robotics is quickly revolutionizing not only how war is fought, but who fights in war.

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"IRON MAN" ROBOT SUIT Cyberdyne: HAL in 2009 (PHOTOS) (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | Willow Lindley | Posted 05.14.2009 | Living

Read More: Prosthetic Limbs, Enhance Strength, Hybrid Assistive Limb, Robot Suit, Iron Man Suit, Hal, Iron Man, Robot, 2001 a Space Odyssey, Hybrid Assistive Limb Suit, Health, Robotics, Technology, Robots, Iron Man Robot Suit Cyberdyne, Cyberdyne Hal, Cyberdyne, Living News

Ever dream of being Iron Man? Well, that dream might not be as far fetched as you might think. Cyberdyne, a Japanese company founded Professor Sankai,...

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Pentagon Exploring Robot Killers That Can Fire By Themselves

McClatchy | Posted 04.25.2009 | World

Read More: Pentagon, Department of Defense, Obama Department of Defense, Foreign Affairs, Pakistan, Pakistan Drone Attacks, Self-Firing Drone, Obama Defense Department, Drones, Defense Department, Advocacy, Robots, Pentagon Robot Killers, World News

The unmanned bombers that frequently cause unintended civilian casualties in Pakistan are a step toward an even more lethal generation of robotic hunt...

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Walking, Talking Robot Will Make Debut At Japanese Fashion Show

AP | YURI KAGEYAMA | Posted 04.16.2009 | World

Read More: Japan, Japanese, Robots, Robot, Robotics, Cybernetic Human, Hrp-4c, World News

TSUKUBA, Japan — A new walking, talking robot from Japan has a female face that can smile and has trimmed down to 43 kilograms (95 pounds) to ma...

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Tomorrow's Info Today: Staying Ahead of the News Cycle

Randall Amster | Posted 04.12.2009 | Media

Read More: The Future, Future, Media News, Unified Theory, Information Overload, Green Collar Economy, Green Jobs, Rush Limbaugh, Current Events, Economy, Victory Gardens, Information Age, The Commons, Teleportation, Recession, Star Trek, Nature, Privatization, Agribusiness, Robotics, Gardening, Gmo, Robots, Vulture Capitalism, Humor, Speculation, New Media, Humor and Satire, Media News
Randall Amster

From now on, I will only get my news from future-based sources, and thus seek to remain ahead of the curve. Outlandish, you say? Impossible? You are obviously so behind the times.

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Jason Linkins

Scritti Politti: March 5, 2009

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama Tax Plan, Jeff Bercovici, Jeff Gettleman, Jon Stewart, Suze Orman, The Daily Show, Jack Shafer, Rush Limbaugh, Evan Bayh, Video, Ari Fleischer, Barack Obama, New York Times, Media Criticism, Dow Jones Industrial Average, Robots, Gay Marriage, Politics News

Burning up my inbox today is news of this story from the Charlotte News and Observer, about an anti-gay marriage rally in Raleigh. It contains thes...

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Robots Now Driving Some New York City Trains

nypress.com | Posted 04.17.2009 | Green

Read More: Mass Transit, Robots, Computers Driving Trains, Public Transportation, New York-New York, Trains, Green News

Mass transit developments abound this week -- this time, it's the most futuristic-sounding item yet. New York subway trains along one line will be dri...

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Roombas Of Doom: How Vacuum Cleaners Will Kill Us All (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Alex Leo | Posted 03.14.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Daily Show, Roombas, Funny Videos, Roombas Daily Show, Future Shock, Robots, Deadly Robots, Samantha Bee, Roombas of Doom, Future Shock Roombas of Doom, Daily Show Roombas, Roomba, Comedy News

For the latest installment of "Future Shock," Samantha Bee sat down with Colin Angle, the CEO of iRobot and creator of the Roomba, who received nearly...

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