The Japanese robots at the Kennedy Center’s “Robotopia Rising” exhibit are cute, cuddly ambassadors from a future packed with smiling, happy plastic slaves. Japan’s massive aging population is creating a need for robotic elder-care assistants, machines that can remind the aged to take medicine, turn them in bed, or alert working adult children to problems […]
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Welcome the Cute Plastic Overlords: ‘Robotopia Rising’ at the Kennedy Center
February 11th, 2008 · 4 Comments
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Bionic Woman , Pre-Tune-Up
July 10th, 2007 · 8 Comments
This is Rachel, my girlfriend. She’s beautiful, sweet, loving, and endlessly patient with my constant mood swings. She’s also sort of bionic.
When she was a little girl, she started developing scoliosis pretty badly. Doctors eventually opened her back right up and fused two titanium rods to her increasingly unruly spine.
“That oughta teach it […]
Tags: spine · Rachel · tune-up · woman · titanium rods · bionic
