American Madness

Intelligent Criticism in the Service of a Better Nation

Rise of the Machines

Remember when I wrote about the armed robots patrolling the streets in Iraq? Well, it might be time to start worrying about those machines.
Here’s the deal: “Many advanced military weapons are essentially robotic — picking targets out automatically, slewing into position, and waiting only for a human to pull the trigger.” Well, one of these [...]

Seriously?

It’s been a good long while since we have had really ridiculous product to mock discuss here.
Today though is just a jackpot of a day where we have come across not one, but two totally different products worthy of being called out for this distinction.
First up we have Phone Fingers. “What’s a Phone Finger?” you [...]

What’s Your Time Worth?

I discovered a new gadget online simply called Your Salary.
It’s simple, you plug in what you make and it runs a clock/calculator function that tallies what you are making per second, per minute, per hour and per day. It even runs it while you are on the site, showing the pennies adding up, turning into [...]

Poodwaddle

Yes, it sounds like gibberish, but apparently it is an all-in-one search engine/desktop utility- It has a clock, calendar, notepad, calculator, Google-powered search engine, plus a number of other links, features and functions.
What I really like about Poodwaddle isn’t any of that- it is the special clocks page.
So you click on the clocks link [...]

Keep on…dancing, smiling

The human-controlled robot dances and interacts.
From http://beatbots.org:

Human social behavior shares much in common with dance. Our speech, as well as the movement of our body, head, and hands, is periodic and rhythmic. The goal of the BeatBots project is to develop robots that can interact with people by synchronizing with these social rhythms. We believe [...]

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