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ZOMBIE HEAD REMOVAL DEVICE

PAM Individual Lifting Vehicle (DVICE, via Bulldada Newsblog)
Previously ‘varked: everything zombie

FIDDLEBOT

Toyota Partner Robot, “Pomp and Circumstance” (Flash @ Reuters)
Toyota Shows Violin-Playing Robot (AP)

KIDS DESIGN COMPUTERS

The children started making these laptops last year and dubbed themselves “the laptop club.” This was truly an innovation of kid culture without adult coaching. The children were in second and third grade last year, and are continuing to create and play with new designs this year. They are seven to nine years old.

ADDICTED TO OIL

Today, China consumes only a third as much oil as the United States, which burns a quarter of the world’s oil each day. By 2030, India and China together will import as much oil as the United States and Japan do today.
While demand is growing fastest abroad, Americans’ appetite for big cars and large houses […]

WORRY NO MORE!

“Where we put our dollars is the difference between human extinction and an exciting new eco-lifestyle!”

Greensumption (YouTube, via getpost)

WHAT’S IT LIKE?

So, student journalists, tyro profilers and rooky reporters out there, seriously, quite seriously never ask a ‘what’s it like’ question, it instantly reveals your crapness. I used to try getting surreal when asked the question and say things like ‘being famous is like wearing blue pyjamas at the opera. It’s like kissing Neil Young, but […]

LOW-IMPACT LIVING

Grapes are trained over the eaves of the green roof of his home, built on neglected farmland owned by a friend at Brithdir Mawr. Freshly dug potatoes sit in a bucket by the door and, after nearly 10 years, the bracken still sprouts through the kitchen’s earth floor every spring. Three small solar panels and […]

HEADLINE OF THE DAY

Top cop predicts robot crimewave

MANDALA

Mapping the Internet (Technology Review, via Passport)

THE MOTHS ARE NOT WHAT THEY SEEM

Famed US military mad-scientist bureau DARPA (the Defense Advanced Projects Research Agency) is engaged in an effort to grow/build cyborg moths for use as spies. No, really.
The program is called Hybrid Insect Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems, or HI-MEMS. In it, the arguably over-caffeined DARPA boffins aim to construct a tiny lepidopterine infiltration borg by growing a living […]