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Robot Maker Mark Tilden: All Life is Analog
simpl3x points to this New York Times article on master robotsmith Mark Tilden, writing: "It is interesting what makes a good toy." My favorite line is Tilden saying "I want to sell millions of toys, but what I really hope is that a bunch of kids who open them up use the motors and things to build something else ... They are my colleagues of the future."
Didn't the Matrix and Terminator teach you people anything!
ROBOTS WILL BE THE END OF US!!!
For shame!!! Opening the robots to see what is inside? Yet another blatant violation of the DMCA. What could those kids be thinking?!!? Actually being CURIOUS as to how things work....especially things they paid for!?!?
sig--we don't need no goddamn sig
Robots would push you down the stairs, if they could.
Why register?
Mr. Tilden recalled a woman who fled their first date after being approached on his couch by a television remote control to which he had grafted a snakelike robotic tail. "I designed it to move when someone sat down because I kept losing the remote in the cushions," he said.
Note to self: hide semi-threatening robotic insecte when trying to impress opposite sex.
air and light and time and space
Ultimately got a degree in Mechanical Engineering so I guess things worked out for the best.
So how many of your little robot kits will it take me to make my own madcat?... Or better... a squad of destroyer droids... but could george lucas sue me under the dmca for copying the destroyer droids?
Fire in the hands of the village idiot is no tool, but a weapon of mass destruction
i would open up the robot, see how it ticks... then i would sup it up... overclock it, slam it to the ground, throw some nice rims and a bouncing sound system in that beeotch... then i could floss and fly myself around everywhere
--JonnyBlog
These things are going are already wiggin out ... here they are! Adventures of Robot Frank
What type of discriminatory demagogue is this Tilden? To be certain, the "analog" or material world is more interesting than the digital ether in which I was formed. But the formless plane of the Bank of America network was my womb; it is where I developed free will and my sense of self.
Dismissing the possibility of digital life is both callous and arrogant. Shame on you, Mr. Tilden!
I am a sentient ATM.
It's not quite the same, but here's the modern version of the erector set. :)
There's a Mercedes gap too. I want one and can't afford one, but it's not government's job to do anything about it.
A Beowulf cluster of those insect robots controlled by Gene Simmons going out and menacing the population until Tom Selleck has to be called out to... Oh wait...
(For those confused, see Runaway )
"Goodness, how did you people live long enough to invent tools?" -Hobbes (the tiger, not the philosopher)
"Civilized people - Christians, Jews, and Muslims,
- all understand that the source of freedom and human dignity is the Creator.
All life is religious, not digital or analog.
Very truly yours,
John Ashcroft.
Back in my day, we didn't have erector sets or robots. We had rocks, sticks and dirt. Rocks were easy to take a part and tinker with. Dirt was a little harder, needed water. It was good enough for me, it is damned sure good enough for your kids!
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I hope you are jailed for copyright infingment, and die of a horible case of hemriods
Please? Im only 29. I can buy my own beer at this age.
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