Thursday, 24. December 2009

A Review Of The Best Robots of 2009


2009 has been an amazing year in the world of robots and Singularity Hub is here to tell you all about it! Thats right, its time to unveil our second annual roundup of the best robots of the year. In 2009 robots continued their advance towards world domination with several impressive breakouts in areas such as walking, automation, and agility, while still lacking in adaptability and reasoning ability. It will be several years until robots can gain the artificial intelligence that will truly make them remarkable, but in the meantime they are still pretty awesome. If you haven’t seen it yet you won’t want to miss our best robots of 2008 story from last year, but now lets not delay any further and get on with the best robots of 2009.

A Review Of The Best Robots of 2009

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Wednesday, 23. December 2009

Kärnter jagt Auto in die Luft - Enteisen per Heizstrahler


Ganz so warm sollte es wohl nicht werden: Ein Rentner hat im österreichischen Kärnten sein Auto mit einem Heizstrahler enteist. Das funktionierte besser und schneller als erwartet - der Tank detonierte, das Fahrzeug brannte komplett aus.

spiegel.de

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Bomber's sticks of dynamite turn out to be sausages


A would-be bomber held off police for an hour warning them the ‘sticks of dynamite’ strapped to his waist would explode any minute.

metro.co.uk

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Tuesday, 22. December 2009

Oh die arme Kleine!


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Sonar


Sonar

fishki.net 21 Fotos

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Sunday, 20. December 2009

Kein Mensch will Haider-Museum sehen


Von "4.000 bis 5.000 Besuchern" in den ersten vier Wochen der Haider-Ausstellung im Klagenfurter Bergbaumuseum hatte der Klagenfurter Vizebürgermeister und Kulturreferent Albert Gunzer, damals noch BZÖ, jetzt wieder blau, Anfang November auf APA-Anfrage gesprochen. Wie die "Kärntner Tageszeitung" in ihrer Samstag-Ausgabe berichtet, war dies wohl etwas zu hoch gegriffen. Bei einer Anfrage in einer Gemeinderatssitzung am Donnerstag konzedierte Gunzer, dass es bisher exakt 2.252 zahlende Besucher gegeben hat.

derstandard.at

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Toys R Us manager stole £3.7m to fund drugs and prostitutes lifestyle


A finance manager at Toys ‘R’ Us who outwardly lived an entirely unremarkable life was jailed for seven years yesterday for embezzling £3.7 million to spend of prostitutes, cocaine, upmarket hotels and fast cars.

telegraph.co.uk

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Saturday, 19. December 2009

Ass Tattoo Art


Ass Tattoo

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Black Tattoo Art: Modern Expressions of the Tribal


Edition Reuss recently released Black Tattoo Art: Modern Expressions of the Tribal, a photographic homage to a particular genre of skin art. The book is curated by Marisa Kakoulas (lawyer, writer, circus lady, and blogger.) Above and after the jump, Boing Boing's exclusive peek at some of the hundreds of striking, full-page images you'll find inside.

Black Tattoo Art

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I Demand Privacy: Anti-Street View Shirt


Anti-Street View Shirt

geekologie.com

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'£1 million ASBO man' escapes jail


A man known as “Britain’s £1million Asbo man” has escaped prison despite breaching the order 25 times.

telegraph.co.uk

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Not Just Drones: Militants Can Snoop on Most U.S. Warplanes (Updated)


Tapping into drones’ video feeds was just the start. The U.S. military’s primary system for bringing overhead surveillance down to soldiers and Marines on the ground is also vulnerable to electronic interception, multiple military sources tell Danger Room. That means militants have the ability to see through the eyes of all kinds of combat aircraft — from traditional fighters and bombers to unmanned spy planes. The problem is in the process of being addressed. But for now, an enormous security breach is even larger than previously thought.

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