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

Robot Suit for the Elderly

Posted by Catfish as Tech, science, survival

In more robot news, the Kangawa Institute of Technology is soon to release it’s new Air Pressure Suit. The suit would assist its wearer in activities such as lifting and movement. The suit at this stage is a bit clunky and difficult to get into (think: even harder than your high school sweat pants) and while it weighs 66 lbs, it can lift up about 140 lbs. That’s more than your usual granny will be packin’ in groceries! And if even half of the elderly folks out there are like my Grandma, they gave up adapting when VCRs came out, and now have perhaps at best a tenuous grasp on using “the cellophone” …somehow I doubt we’ll see a bunch of Medicare funded robotic exoskeletons for the elderly anytime soon, but that’s where the suits are being marketed towards. The best I can predict is, coming soon to a hospital or nursing home soon (if you live in Japan).

It would the game on it’s head in world of purse nabbing though. Purse Nabbers beware. Time to hire scientists to build you a robosuit as well!

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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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