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GSM Palm Pre to launch on Telcel in Mexico, feature storage expansion? {Engadget}
Oct 12th 2009 8:51PM Videos are reposted:
http://www.electronista.com/articles/09/10/09/video.hints.at.unique.hardware/
Google signs PowerMeter partnership with The Energy Detective, lets everyone play along {Engadget}
Oct 6th 2009 1:31PM Is there a version of this that doesn't blast your usage across the netz?
Some of us has ZERO interest in what we do at home being put in public places.
iKey's AK-39 wearable keyboard is about as weapon-like as it sounds {Engadget}
Jul 14th 2009 10:55PM Reminds me of X-CaliBR8 from The Dungeonmaster
or
Vocaloid cosplay:
http://media.giantbomb.com/uploads/0/238/670153-vocaloid_box_super.jpg
(look at her sleeve)
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
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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
