Oct

Nano radio

Posted by Catfish as Computerz, Tech, enviornment, science

When I was 8 or 9, I remember hearing about how certain people, after they had gotten fillings in their mouths, had inexplicably inherited the ability to hear radio stations. I thought the very idea was the coolest thing I had ever heard. Imagine sitting in class, or in church, Sunday school…slightly clenching your teeth and hearing the sweet sounds of Huey Lewis and the News being snatched from the air by your molars. Years later we’ve got the iPod, which is small in size, but still detectable enough to get confiscated in class…but now Scientists have produced the first working radio that receives radio waves wirelessly and then converts those waves into sound through a nano-sized detector made of carbon nanotubes. Just imagine the potential ramifications of this…all of the equipment and electronics that clutter up our homes, and eventually our landfills will soon be reduced to the size of a few grains of rice.

Probably more likely to happen first is Big Advertising will get a hold of the technology, and we’ll have them float in our ears while we sleep, as they hum subliminal straight into their target: our brains. Zestfully, zestfully, zestfully cleeeeeaaaaan…wait, why am I singing that? At least in the future, I will have the nanos to blame.

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Oct

College Kids Internet Habits

Posted by Catfish as BS, Computerz, Tech, sexuality

Anderson Analytics just released this research report detailing the top 10 websites visited by college students, breaking it down into 2 list, women and men. My immediate reaction to the resuts:

1) shit, I better actually set up and use that facebook acct I have lying around

2) I’m kind of glad I don’t check ESPN

3) what the hell is postsecret and why are girls on it?

4) same goes for addicting games…my mom finds these types of sites.

5) girls only check craigslist to see if some stranger wrote that he saw her hot muffinz at the bus stop in missed connections.

6) fark is cool by me.

I am saddened by college age men and women and their seeming ineptitude towards utilizing the vast depths of information available on the internet…are people really only making it that far into the internet? Put on some water wingies and check out the deep end folks!

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Oct

Robobridezilla?

Posted by Catfish as BS, Computerz, Tech, humor, science, sexuality, spirituality, survival

roboslut David Levy, a British A.I. researcher (and chess champ), wrote in his docturate thesis, “Intimate Relationships with Artificial Partners,” that trends in robotics and shifting attitudes on marriage are likely to result in sophisticated robots that will eventually be seen as suitable marriage partners.” The study drew from over 450 sources stemming from areas such as robotics, psychology, sexology, sociology and A.I just to name a few. Levy suggests that the same emotions that people feel for loved ones, for their pets, or even for their, “virtual pets, and even for less animal artefacts — namely computers — will be extended to the area of the robots of the future.” Levy goes as far as to suggest that we will be having sexual relationships with robots in the future as well as he says, “Love and sex with robots are inevitable extensions of our ideas, feelings and practical actions in the framework of relationships. The question is not if this will happen, but when. I am convinced that the answer is: much earlier than you think.”

I guess we had better get ready for a whole new wave of floppy disc and hard drive jokes. The whole scenario has me wondering though if my ex-girlfriend was a prototype that was recalled because they forgot to update her emoticon eproms…it really would explain so much.

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