It’s just…so…cool…

…and…

Tokyo University’s JSK Robotics Laboratory demonstrates this extremely cool robot that uses about 100 tendon-like control devices to make Kojiro work and move more like a human than other robots.

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At the beginning of the show, the guys start out by reading some listener mail in a segment still entitled “Fred” (until somebody suggests a better [...]

…for their song This Too Shall Pass. Dig it:

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At the beginning of the show, the guys start out by reading some listener mail in a segment currently entitled “Fred” (until somebody suggests a better [...]

I love LEGO. But I’m nowhere near smart enough to build something this amazingly cool. A Rubik’s Cube-solving LEGO Mindstorms robot that can solve any random cube in about 20 turns or, in the case of the example here, about 10.75 seconds. Brilliant.

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In this episode, Tony and Lou both talk about Bioshock 2 as well as Plants vs. Zombies on the iPhone. Lou talks a bit more about both Mass Effect 2 and WoW. [...]

Sure, none of us has used it yet, but the same was true when Apple first demo’d the iPhone. But based on what we’re seeing here, Microsoft has gone way past everybody else, including Apple, to dream up and deliver something truly new and wonderful.
And if the above isn’t enough, there’s a longer hands-on video [...]

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In this episode, Tony talks about Borderlands as well as Star Wars: The Force Unleashed. Lou talks a bit more about both Mass Effect 2 and WoW. Miscellaneous video game [...]

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In this episode, Tony talks about Borderlands as well as Sword & Poker on the iPhone. Lou talks about WoW a little bit, and starting Mass Effect 2. Miscellaneous [...]