2013 is finally starting to look like the future we were all promised (although no jetpacks yet). Watch as an Audi prototype car drives itself into a parking garage after a smartphone command from its owner.
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Game of Thrones is sorry about putting George W. Bush’s head on a spike
The creators of Game of Thrones have apologized for using George W. Bush’s severed head as a prop on the HBO show.
This child-like robot will play with your kids as the doctor sneaks up and sticks a needle into them
Meet Medi, the lovable robot who distracts your kids ahead of their flu shots. He can “walk, dance, talk with children, play games with them, make eye contact and even give them a high-five.”
Japan’s most intrepid minds have engineered a robotic butt
Nobuhiro Takahashi and his colleagues at the University of Electro-Communications in Tokyo have made a robotic butt that can express a full range of emotions. This being Japan, the inventor will surely get a medal for outstanding citizenship from the prime minister.
All prostitutes will be super-efficient sex machines by 2050, say two academics
In a realization of every nerd’s wet dreams, all prostitutes will be disease-free sex robots by 2050. In a new paper titled “Robots, Men And Sex Tourism” in the journal Futures, two New Zealand researchers imagine a future Amsterdam that can still trade on its image as a “sin city” without the attendant drawbacks of […]