Monday, April 28, 2008

A new look for our robot overlords

So, while trying to get the musician meeting pic too fit, I picked a different template and colours for this whole shebang. It feels more like an outside background now.

This morning I had to get up and drive Danielle down to McAdams to fill out some paper work, and while she was there, I wandered King's Place. The line for coffee of McDonald's breakfast was long, so I bought myself a drumstick, then ate it. Then went to shoppers for deodorant, pop, and a magazine to kill the time. I almost walked out with a ROBOT magazine, but switched at the last moment to Scientific American's special edition on Robotics. I figure it was a good choice, as this has all kinds of sweet stuff that is almost practical, while the ROBOT magazine would have taught me to build a mobile flamethrower. Not the cooler choice, but probably the better one.

Anyways, there's an article on artificial muscles, and how they are basically electric motors without moving parts and it is super cool stuff. Within 10 years it'll be used for everything, it's already being used in a Japanese toy aquarium to make little plastic fish swim around. Plus, NASA will even teach you how to make it. I love living in the future!

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