This week, New Scientist reports that a robot has mastered the art of deception while playing hide and seek with other robots. “A robot that tricks its opponent in a game of hide and seek is a step towards machines that can intuit our thoughts, intentions and feelings” The behaviour of the deceptive Rovio represents [...]
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Create Your Stick Figure Family
I am a terrible artist, which is a real bummer sometimes, but those are the cards I’ve been dealt. Which brings me to this evening, I was actually looking for something to induce a gushing flow of creative artwork, when I stumbled across the Make your Stick Figure Family at FreeFlashToys.com You know those family [...]
Full Story »Brief Geek: Fantastic List of HTML5 Games
Casual Gamer Girl’s husband, Alex Kearns, has put together his list of the Top 30 HTML5 games currently on the internet. HTML5 is the new web standard for HTML, but is currently only supported in newer browsers such as Chrome, Firefox or Safari. However, it will be supported in the soon to be released IE [...]
Full Story »The Dell Inspiron Duo Tablet: Netbook Convertible
Now this looks interesting: Apparently the design has been around for at least ten years, but later this year, Dell is releasing a notebook/tablet pc that runs Windows 7 on a dual-core Atom N550 processor. Its most striking feature is the ability to transform from a netbook to a tablet via its swivel screen. Not [...]
Full Story »A Climb Up the Tallest Tower
And you thought your job was tough, this guy gets to work by free climbing the last 168 feet of a 1768 ft transmission tower. OSHA allows free climbing because clipping, climbing unclipping, etc is tiring, especially when carrying a 30lb tool bag at the end of a length of rope. With views stretching fifty [...]
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