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A new capsule hotel called 9hrs has just opened in Tokyo to improve the conditions and experience traditionally provided by capsule hotel.
In the past capsule hotels have been thought of as ‘ grimy, and primarily intended as expedient sleeping solutions for drunk salarymen who have missed the last train home.’ Check out the video after the break. Read the rest of this entry »
Motorola’s latest Android smartphone, the Motorola Droid 2 is now available. The Motorola Droid 2 is available on a two year contract with Verizon Wireless for $199.99, or if you want one year contract the Droid 2 will set you back $269.99, there is also a SIM free version available for $559.99.
The Motorola Droid 2 features 3.7 inch display, a slide out QWERTY keyboard, and it comes with the latest version of Google Android, Android 2.2 (Froyo),and support for Adobe’s Flash 10.1. Read the rest of this entry »
Twelve years ago, Professor Kevin Warwick became the world’s first cyborg. Today, at Motherboard he’s holding court on cybernetics, and how if we don’t embrace our cyber upgrade potential, the robots will someday win.
Warwick knows what he’s talking about, not just as the first man to have an RFID implant—letting him turn on lights by snapping his fingers, among other things—but as a Professor of Cybernetics at Reading University. His vision of the future is more of a warning, really; that “someday we’ll switch on that machine, and we won’t be able to switch it off.” We’re in an arms race with machines, so why not upgrade where we can?
It’s fascinating stuff, if a little alarmist. But please don’t tell Dr. Warwick I said that, lest he blast me with the optical laser guns I’m sure he’s equipped himself with.
The first thing you have to learn to do as a parent is to blow up random objects. Actually, you might want to start practicing before you have kids to work those lungs out a little. You can’t afford to not be prepared for these sorts of things. Those of you that had blow-up chairs in high school will have a small amount of an edge. The rest of you though need to really get to working on this sort of thing. Of course for this particular blow-up crib they were nice enough to include a pump. Don’t let that make you think you can get lazy though, there will come a day when you’re stuck blowing up a whole assembly line of pool toys.
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