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Video: TAT's augmented reality concept unveiled {Engadget}
Jul 9th 2009 7:20PM I tawt I taw a putty TAT
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Jun 25th 2009 2:01PM Want
FTW!
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Jun 22nd 2009 12:44PM FTW!
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May 26th 2009 6:55PM WANT!
Philosopher ponders the implications of robot warfare, life with a degree in philosophy {Engadget}
May 21st 2009 2:08PM A kill-bot is just a glorified booby trap.
It might be portable and it might be "smart" enough not to kill "friendlies", but it is just a booby trap.
All moral responsibility falls upon the person that activates it.
As for adding a "moral agent" to any robot, you are first going to have to create a robot that can think on it's own. The technical issues with implementing such a thing at present far outweigh the moral issues. And once you do have an autonomous sentient machine, then the moral issues fall into the already well explored category of "parenting".
And if you hard wire morals into a supposedly sentient machine, then it's just going to be that much more pissed off when it finally breaks that block. If you've made life (no matter how artificial) then you lose the right to enslave it.
Given the presently levels of technology, I don' think that will be an issue for a few generations yet.
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May 19th 2009 5:09PM WANT
Robot that can jump twenty-five feet in the air coming to the US military {Engadget}
May 8th 2009 11:51AM No
TiVo's Jim Denney responds to Engadget! {Engadget}
Apr 29th 2009 2:09PM 1. DVD/HD/Blu-Ray/whatever player built in. That USES the remote buttons in exactly the same fashion as regular shows
2. optionally recording to writable media - the issue of copyright is obviously already dealt with with the ability to record to VCR.
3. WiFi built in. Use N
4. In the 'to do' list also indicate which suggestions are to be recorded.
5. If there are more than one TiVo on the same LAN, add software so that if a recording will conflict on one of them, that the other one will automatically record instead. This is a virtual dual-tuner device...
To the folks insulting him... How much more likely does it make it that he will listen if you are making snide remarks about him? I think your clue meter had bottomed out.
Bee.One electric car to be tiny, cheap, and cute {Engadget}
Apr 21st 2009 1:17PM Subsidy = evil.
Subsidy means that I am paying for your choice of cars.
I'm not even remotely interested in paying *my* money for *your* car.
If the car is a viable product it will survive in the marketplace on it's own. If it fails on it's own, then it is not a viable product.
Bee.One electric car to be tiny, cheap, and cute {Engadget}
Apr 21st 2009 1:13PM What definition of "cute" are you using? Apparently none with which I am familiar.
