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  • They're Taking Our Jobs: Little Caesar's Sign Flipping Bot
    February 4, 2013
    This is a video of a sign-flipping robot employed by a Little Caesar's franchise in Tacoma, Washington. Except he's not so much of a sign-flipper as he is a sign-wiggler. Also, I like how they have him chained to a tree in anticipation of some college frat stealing him for th... / Continue →
  • We're All Gonna Die: Scientists Create Cyborg Flesh
    August 31, 2012
    Scientists at Harvard University have created a cyborg tissue consisting of lab-grown flesh embedded with nano-wires that has the same "sensing" properties as human skin. This is all going to end very poorly. Probably with an army of cyborgs that look human. 'Ultimately, thi... / Continue →
  • Stay Away!: Creepy As Hell 'Extra Eyes' Face Paintings
    June 28, 2012
    This is a series of creepy face and hand paintings by Choo-San, who obviously has zero regard for me sleeping at night. Call me sensitive, but-- "You're a sissy." You know what? For the sake of making your life a passive-agressive hell for the next week, I'm just gonna prete... / Continue →
  • Noooooo!: Dinosaurs May Have Suffered From Arthritis
    May 17, 2012
    In a heartbreaking new discovery, scientists studying the fossilized remains of a pliosaurus (a marine reptile, not actually a traditional dino) found evidence of a degenerative bone condition similar to modern arthritis. Wow -- first arthritis, then mass extinction? *shaking... / Continue →
  • Nowhere To Hide: DARPA's Legged Robot Uses Stairs
    April 12, 2012
    This is a video featuring the latest advancement in DARPA's humanoid robots: the ability to navigate stairs. They already know how to push elevator buttons, so basically they can go anywhere they want now. That's why there aren't any stairs in my house -- only fireman's poles... / Continue →
  • Ugh: Sand Flea Robotic Car Can Jump Over 30-Feet -- UP
    March 28, 2012
    Seen here preparing to leap on top of a building, Boston Dynamics' latest robotic killer, the Sand Flea (the evolutionary decedent of their Precision Urban Hopper), looks to gain entrance to a building from above. Note to self: keep a fire going in the fireplace at all times. ... / Continue →
  • Futurama's Bender Wins DC School Board Election
    March 6, 2012
    To test the security of a new electronic voting system for absentee ballots, the DC School Board decided to invite hackers to attempt to compromise the system before it went into use. SURPRISE! -- it got hacked the shit out of and Bender won. *shaking fist* CURSE YOU, SKYNET... / Continue →
  • Uh-Oh, Vampiring Works: Old Mice Injected With Young Mice Blood 'Rejuvinated'
    September 2, 2011
    Damn bro those fangs are GREEN -- it's called Crest, it comes in a tube. Because science has basically devolved into trying ANYTHING, researchers at Stanford University have discovered that injecting old mice with the blood of young mice has a rejuvenating effect on the old-ti... / Continue →
  • 'Swarmanoid' Robotic Gang Works Together To Accomplish Tasks (i.e. Destroy Humanity)
    August 16, 2011
    The Swarmanoid is an autonomous group of robots, each with their own particular skills and mode of transport, that communicate and work together to accomplish a task. In this case, to retrieve a book from a bookshelf. In the future, to destroy humanity and claim the earth fo... / Continue →
  • Faceybooks: Now With More Video Chat
    July 6, 2011
    Because if there's one thing my life's been missing, it's direction people I went to middle school with, bored out of their f***ing minds and deciding to video-chat me to catch up on the past 18 years. Thankfully, Facebook now has a video-calling option. I swear, I am like, f... / Continue →