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Print Your Own Terminator: Maybe 2012 is The End of the World
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2012 is the year the world will end, if you are to believe the looneys who are convinced that because the Mayans didn’t bother to include 2013 on their calendars, it means Armageddon. While that might not happen, it won’t take much for it all to go to shreds if… |
January 3rd, 2012
Automaton Hand Seems Very Impatient
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I’m always impressed by the handiwork of artists who can make automatons, given the fact they require not only creativity, but mechanical engineering skills as well. |
August 12th, 2011
Handsoaps Let You Wash Your Hands with Hands, Leave You Feeling Dirty
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These hand soaps are exactly what they sound like. Soap for your hands. They are also soaps that look like hands. Specifically, they look like a bunch of tiny creepy baby hands.… |
August 9th, 2011
PossessedHand: I Swear I Didn’t Flip You Off
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PossessedHand is a device that will make your fingers move by themselves. It’s supposed to help you learn certain tasks that are complicated to learn. It was developed by researchers at Tokyo University and Sony.… |
June 27th, 2011
Three-Fingered Robotic Hand is Faster Than Your Five Fingers
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I knew it would only be a matter of time before robots would start taking over, and here’s more evidence that the days of human dominance are numbered. Check out the amazing things that this high-speed robotic hand can do. It can grasp a rice grain with a tweezer, catch… |
June 15th, 2011
Modern Cyborg: Amputee Demonstrates Bionics
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It looks like cyborgs are among us, thanks to bionic prosthetics that amputees can now have attached to replace their missing limbs. The BBC is reporting about the cases of two elective amputees, who had lost the ability to use their hands. Instead, chose to replace their non-functioning hands with… |
May 19th, 2011
iPhone Tickle Interface: Do Scientists Really Have this Much Time on Their Hands?
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Researchers from Tokyo’s University of Electro-Communications are working on a ridiculous new interface for the iPhone, which allows users to simulate the sensation of being tickled. Why actually tickle the palm of your hand when you can have an App for that, right?… |
May 13th, 2011
Handstand Aims to Keep Your iPad Whole
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I can tell you from experience that it sucks to break a gadget. I broke my iPhone 3GS a few months back and it was not fun. Thankfully, I was able to upgrade. It think if I dropped my iPad and broke it, I would cry. I don’t use my… |
December 16th, 2010
Dainty Human-Like Hands Will be the Key to Robonaut 2′s Success
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A while back, GM and NASA teamed up to build a cool humanoid robot to send into space to live on the ISS with the astronauts in what is the first step towards the construction of our own Cylons. The robot was dubbed Robonaut 2 – or R2 for short,… |
December 9th, 2010
Lifelike Robot Hand Freaks Us Out
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You’ve gotta hand it to the Japanese (pun intended) – they sure know how to build strange robots. The latest oddity has to be the Robot Hand H-Type from Squse.… |
August 12th, 2010
