Day: October 27, 2010

Robots are So Close Now

Posted onAuthorTech News

There is a crew in Asia (unsure where can’t see much face) that is steadily working on a robot with some human looking features and motions. The robot smiles, blinks nods and looks around (if those are cameras in the eye sockets). Many of the normal human actions of a smile and talking, happen with this robot. I haven’t seen the hands or arms of the robot move yet

The mouth is still very “puppety” when the robot talks.
I understand why they used female for the texture. couple simple reasons. 1 they are guys and i am sure it would have been creepy trying to build a pleasant non offensive looking male. 2 all killer robots are male.
I hope the end result in this robot venture is to help those who are unable to help themselves.

or if you want to be more gross about robots

And a bit more robot gross. Robotic arm being used by a living monkey.

Another robotic hand, This one does not work on the mind control, this robotic hand works on muscle movement.

both arms are robotic

I am surprised there is not a larger group of tech people working on these robots or competitive robots. Not so much like battle bots or robot wars. More like if there is competition, you have room for greater ideas and higher goals for achievement. Take a chance on your robot as apposed to just make it happen. If tech was done that way, those cyborg arms would be running on diesel fuel and there would be 20 foot hoses connected to the back of them.

Comments are open below.

Things Facebook Needs

Posted onAuthorTech Review Man

Hey, great place. Facebook is free. I know.
But it isn’t a perfect place.
at first I didn’t mean to log into Facebook and rant to my friends about what I think the place needs. Every single day.
It just happened. Facebook fricken screams for me to notice things about it. some of the things I rant about on Facebook are just jokes and staying with my typical theme. So without further suspense about how I feel about Facebook.

Facebook needs

Facebook needs a media player so I can set my own playlist of crap I like so my friends get a chance to sample it as apposed to flooding up the screen with youtube videos… because … well.. that’s pretty much all you got.
Facebook needs ignore a link. If you keep getting the same link from all of your friends and you do not want to ignore your friends 1 by 1. Would be nice to ignore that link.
Facebook needs a fricken time line. I hate logging in to see the crap I saw yesterday. Every post is 17+ hours old. I have to wait 17 hours before I can see what is going on right now????
Facebook needs a thumbs down button. Really you have to check your friends from time to time. If you constantly post only the positive in anything. Well for one, you are a froot! and mainly you do not point out the flaw in their theory. You do not prevent your friend from jumping in a bear cage, just because they like animals, and think the whole world should be more loving.. KINDA like This.
Facebook needs to get rid of that stupid bar at the bottom of the screen. We hated that bar when AOL forced it on us, we hated that bar when netzero forced it on us. We hate that bar.
Facebook needs in the idea of the bar at the bottom, How about private chatrooms that only our friends and their friends can go in. or something like that.
Facebook needs to actually be social. Nothing worse than trying to meet someone and getting a pop up saying ‘ do you really know this person???” how is it social to only meet people you already know ??????

Well I’m out of stuff for now. You can leave ideas below. Comments are open.

Playstation Phone

Posted onAuthorTruXter

Let’s say “educated” rumor of the Playstation phone, will have android on it. And from the picture it looks as if the Playstation phone will use GSM.
from Mashable
I hope they modified the Android o/s to look more like playstation’s o/s. Because well, the ps o/s looks cool.
Looks like the Sony Playstation phone will be using the Ericsson manufacturing (owned by Sony).

pic of Playstation phone

I would have preferred qwerty keyboard with w-a-s-d Steering and i-j-k-l throttling and damper.

If this is the path for the Playstation Portable PSP, then it’s pretty much over for all competitors, phone wise, hand held gaming systems, Media players and anything in between or remotely close.
Only possible competitor would be Nintendo Ds from iphone or rim.
1 gig processor
512 mb ram
1gig of storage.
Should play GTAIII well and all of the GTA stories.
Maybe vice city. surely vice city stories, since the psp played liberty city and vice city stories on a much wimpier processor.
The psp phone (yeah I called it a PSP phone…) will easily play movies in pretty high resolution. Considering my G1 does pretty good and my PSP does pretty well.