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Lady_Satine
Title: Head of Lexian R&D
Joined: Oct 15 2005
Location: Metro area, Georgia
Posts: 7287
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"Life is a waste of time. Time is a waste of life. Get wasted all the time, and you'll have the time of your life!" |
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Douche McCallister
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Title: DOO-SHAY
Joined: Jan 26 2007
Location: Private Areas
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It says the fingers could curl and the elbow jont could bend with a spring. Does that mean you had to dick with your fake arm with your real arm to get it to do something?
I wonder if the creators can sue George Lucas for a similar arm being used in Star Wars
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UsaSatsui
Title: The White Rabbit
Joined: May 25 2008
Location: Hiding
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Holy shit! Get that thing to Cyberdine!
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GPFontaine
Joined: Dec 06 2007
Location: Connecticut
Posts: 11244
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It reminds me of something from that terrible Will Smith cowboy movie.
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Dr. Jeebus
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Title: SLF Harbinger of Death
Joined: Sep 03 2005
Location: Wakefield, MA
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GPFontaine
Joined: Dec 06 2007
Location: Connecticut
Posts: 11244
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Does the word dick and that prosthesis in the same sentence give anyone else the chills?
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Lady_Satine
Title: Head of Lexian R&D
Joined: Oct 15 2005
Location: Metro area, Georgia
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Dr. Jeebus wrote: |
That's pretty impressive, even if the evaluation that you had to dick with it with your other arm to make it move sounds correct |
Hmm, the precursor to the Power Glove maybe.
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"Life is a waste of time. Time is a waste of life. Get wasted all the time, and you'll have the time of your life!" |
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Blackout
Title: Captain Oblivious
Joined: Sep 01 2007
Location: That Rainy State
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Andrew Man
Title: Is a Funklord
Joined: Jan 30 2007
Location: Annandale, VA
Posts: 5603
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Of course they had excellent, ahead of it's time, technology in the late 1800's. Hasn't anyone seen Wild Wild West?? Hah.
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My Muzaks! CHECK IT OUT!!!
http://www.facebook.com/hellodharmaband
3DS is very good, and Wii U!
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FNJ
2010 SLF Tag Champ
Joined: Jun 07 2006
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did they find the matching data chip?
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GPFontaine
Joined: Dec 06 2007
Location: Connecticut
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Andrew Man wrote: |
Of course they had excellent, ahead of it's time, technology in the late 1800's. Hasn't anyone seen Wild Wild West?? Hah. |
HAH!
That was t he movie I was trying to reference but couldn't think of the name. The Will Smith cowboy movie!
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Andrew Man
Title: Is a Funklord
Joined: Jan 30 2007
Location: Annandale, VA
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GPFontaine wrote: |
Andrew Man wrote: |
Of course they had excellent, ahead of it's time, technology in the late 1800's. Hasn't anyone seen Wild Wild West?? Hah. |
HAH!
That was t he movie I was trying to reference but couldn't think of the name. The Will Smith cowboy movie! |
It's the first thing I thought when I saw the limb.
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My Muzaks! CHECK IT OUT!!!
http://www.facebook.com/hellodharmaband
3DS is very good, and Wii U!
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Lady_Satine
Title: Head of Lexian R&D
Joined: Oct 15 2005
Location: Metro area, Georgia
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In somewhat related news, from roboid.com
It is only a matter of time when robots will be more similar or even more advanced than humans. One big step toward this idea was made in Tokyo University. Research group led by Takao Someya, has found electronic skin or E-Skin, a material of very high conductivity that is flexible like ordinary rubber. According to the researchers, this is the first material in the world which solves the problems metals (conductive but do not stretchable) and rubber (hardly transmits electricity) face.
The results of this research showed that E-Skin, originally made of organic transistors developed by combination of carbon nanotubes, fused in ionized liquid and polymers, has the ability of stretching 1.7 times of its original size without any loss of its conductivity or stretching up to 2.3 times of the original size when the conductivity drops roughly by half. The material can be placed over any rough surface without conductivity losses.
Practical uses of this super conductor are unlimited. One of the uses is in car industry on the surface of the steering wheels, where E-Skin could analyze perspiration, body temperature and other data of the driver in order to judge the drivers current condition in order to determine if the driver is capable for driving in that moment. It could be used as a protection against theft etc.
Tsuyoshi Sekitani, a research associate in the team, said:” It could be completely integrated into the normal driving system, making users unaware of using it”.
If this special material would be implemented onto robots it would be able to give them a sense of touch even more advanced than ours. Someya and his colleagues are convinced that the functionality of E-Skin can be expanded so it would be able to incorporate additional types of sensors. In their words, in near future it will be possible to make electronic skin with functions that human skin lacks. The additional sensing would include sensors for temperature, pressure, light, humidity, strain and even the sensors for ultrasonic sound.
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Mr. Satire
Joined: Jun 08 2010
Location: Termina Field
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UsaSatsui wrote: |
Holy shit! Get that thing to Cyberdine! |
That's what I was thinking! That thing is freaky.
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IceWarm
Joined: Dec 22 2008
Location: Breckenridge, Colorado
Posts: 1691
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Its spelled "Cyberdyne" guys.
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i'll_bite_your_ear
Title: Distillatoria
Joined: Jun 09 2010
Location: van down by the river
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Looks badass. How cool would that be if you had such a protease.
You would get more ass than a toilet.
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