An update on the Sarcos Exoskeleton I mentioned: "With a tethered power source, you could likely see [the exoskeleton deployed] within five years," says Fraser Smith, vice president of operations for Raytheon Sarcos, located in Salt Lake City. "For a suit that operates on its own power, it's probably more like a decade away."I've cross-referenced this XKCD comic, for your referenc...
Friday, 28 September 2012
Building an Iron Man suit is hard (of course). That's why Sarcos/Raytheon's suit disappeared into vaporware, why the HULC exoskeleton barely registers google searches, and why no one is pulling them out of suitcases out at grand prix race and defeating guys with plasma-powered whips.But if you're going to build it, you have to start somewhere. Here's something I find completely astounding, for two reasons. Reason Number One is that it is almost the exact design I proposed to my friend Josh a month ago and am pleased to see that I am good at...
Thursday, 27 September 2012
The Atlantic pays Alexis Madrigal a lot of money to basically outline what I outlined for free TWO YEARS ago.This isn't a knock on Madrigal. I think he's a great writer and I like many of his articles. But they should pay him to produce quality original content, not to regurgitate what thinkers in this field have been touting as obvious for year...
Wednesday, 26 September 2012
Friday, 14 September 2012
Dear kids of America under 15:If you were 3 when it happened, I am more than happy to have you post something memorial about 9/11 on your Facebook wall.But please, please stop saying "Never Forget." You were probably still in diapers. You can't forget something if you weren't aware it happened.It'd be like me saying "Challenger explosion: never forget...
Monday, 10 September 2012
Out here at work, we've got a pop machine and a snack machine. The prices are outrageously high. It used to be just a pop machine, but then they added the snack machine, asking $0.90 for the smallest of items. This made me angry, both because of the slow roll of inflation but also because I could buy two of the same item at a grocery store for that price - was the convenience charge really 100%?So I fashioned a hilarious meme to put on the vending machine. I was going to print it and tape it to the machine...I figured the rest of the folks out...
Thursday, 6 September 2012
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