Articles tagged "machines"

The idea was brilliant and simple: Stick a small camera facing outward in a box and mail it around Denmark

Playwright Karel Capek was going to call the artificial workers 'Labori', but his brother suggested “robots,” instead. It’s not surprising then, that the robots in 'Rossum's Universal Robots' feel like a pretty thinly-veiled metaphor.

Check out the new batch of robots that the company’s research arm is manufacturing to fill its theme parks with fun.

The election is next week, and some of us will be voting on machines that may or may not properly register our selections.

The absurd simplicity of the whole idea — Fuck shovels and dynamite, let’s use nukes — hearkens back to the techno-optimism of the 50s.

Kinetic, psychotropic visual soundscapes. Give me a second to catch my breath, but that's the best description I can come up with for what musician/sculptor "Felix Thorn":http://www.felixsmachines.com/home/ does. It seems that ever since someone publ…

When you spend six months and 5,000 hours perfecting a "300-step, Guinness Record-breaking Rube Goldberg contraption":http://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/general/2012/120331RubeNational.html, it's gotta be a bummer to come in second place to some wimpy-as…