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05-01-2009, 01:34 AM
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A Crazy for babes Dude!
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05-02-2009, 11:02 AM
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Interesting. Current android-type bots tend to move rather jerky or stiff, but the technology seems to be making rapid improvement.
Video of the runway model bot (shown in the article's pic) can be found here:
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05-02-2009, 11:22 AM
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well the question is how much speed can the silicon chip handle before it melts, or just cant go beyond the capacity, i mean stock cpu's cant get past 4.0 ghz it seems
they told us pentium4's could reach beyond that instead they gave us an extreme edition at 3.6 |
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05-03-2009, 11:37 PM
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I've been waiting for those X-ray glass since the 50's.Funny looking at old science digest and other magazines of old they seem to miss most actual things . If they did then many more would be very rich.
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05-14-2009, 06:36 PM
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05-21-2009, 11:03 AM
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In the strictest sense of really being commonplace or ubiquitous none of the mentioned technologies.Iron man ....that suit woul need a fusion reactor the size of a basketball at most...ain't gonna happen.
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05-21-2009, 12:13 PM
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in the strictest sense of really being commonplace or ubiquitous none of the mentioned technologies.iron man ....that suit woul need a fusion reactor the size of a basketball at most...ain't gonna happen.
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05-21-2009, 01:13 PM
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IT will happen; but not 2050.
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07-01-2009, 08:32 PM
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07-02-2009, 01:32 AM
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Looks like it's only to translate between English and Arabic. I've seen other pocket-sized talking translators, but you had to type it in, and sometimes the words sounded funny or not quite right. The one in the video is pretty cool though because you just talk into it and it speaks the translation as well as writes it. Bet it's not cheap. |
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