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Philip K. Dick Exegesis Expected Next Year

JoeVaughn — Sat, 01 May 2010 03:27:32 +0000

Finally after years, and years of waiting Philip K. Dicks “Exegesis” is scheduled to be released in 2011. PKD is best known for his novels and “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?”, “The Man in the High Castle” and “The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch”. These are his most popular works, despite the fact r the work actually regarding the Exegesis exclusively is Valis. Which for years has been an over looked PKD novel, which I’m sure will gain popularity among the masses that haven’t read any PKD yet.

Mr. Lethem, the author of novels like “Chronic City” and “The Fortress of Solitude,” and who has written frequently on Mr. Dick, said hesitated to describe ”Exegesis” as a work. He described the books as a chronicle of the period in which Mr. Dick “pulled himself together again, as a writer and a human being.” “He’d been launched into outer space by the visions of the early 70s,” Mr. Lethem said, “and he was going to try to come back with the truth – and that, by definition is an impossible task.

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, got the rights to 39 published works, and are re-releasing those next year as well, so I guess we’ll have a bunch more books with stupid covers, like the last round of PKD books. I collect first edition PKD so I’m to worried about it.

So you’ve read this far. Whats this Exegesis about? Um. PDK had a series of experiences in which he believed he had information transmitted to his mind by a pink beam of light and if you don’t know that its possibly one of the longest works ever written by a human, Google it. They can sum up the crazy awesome shit way faster than I can.

Volume 1 – Expected 2011, Volume 2 Expected 2012

The empire never ended.

Japanese Robot Teaches Kids…

JoeVaughn — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 06:37:19 +0000

Still obsessed with Japanese robots. I know I am. I wish I could buy them like those handy Japanese panty vending machines. Um and continuing on … Researchers collaborating from the Nippon Institute of Technology, Harada Vehicle Design, ZMP and ZNUG Design have just taken the wraps off another addition to the crew. The newest version of the e-NUVO walk bot stands about 4 feet tall, making it roughly the size of an elementary school aged child, and will be incorporated into classes to teach children about humanoid robots in a hands-on environment.

Ah leave it up to the Japanese to have a robots that’s hands on with kids. Here in America that robot would get 15 for 5…

Italians Will Put A Spider in Your…

JoeVaughn — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 15:26:18 +0000

So the Italians have come up with an ingenious design. A Spider robot that crawls around your butt. What? Your probably asking yourself whether they should be allowed to have any sort of modern technology if this is how theyre going to waste it. Hold on though, this is a good thing. The Spider isnt actually a Spider, its a tiny robot that the patient
swallows, that can be remote controlled by the doctors one it its the lower intestines. The robot does have a camera, so the doctors dont have to guess when it gets there.

This little robot, does have legs that enable it to move back and forth which gives it the advantage of not being endoscopes for colonoscopy procedures , which some people refuse treatment because they find that to be a bit invasive. This way the spider can do the work from inside, and the patient can relax.

The spider pill has not been tested on humans yet, however the trials on pigs are going well. There is no release date on this, probably in about a year the scientists say, but Im sure if you see a line of old men out side of a doctors clinic, theyve either got the spider pill, or the doctor hired topless dancers, to work inside the clinic as topless dancers.

Also before I let you go, your probably wondering what happens after there done with the looking and crawling, and the what not. Well the spider pill makes the grandest of exits, naturally of course.

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New Drug Robot

JoeVaughn — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 04:09:23 +0000

So Panasonic is creating a robot to dispense any number of drugs to patients in hospital. They announced that the robot maybe dispensing drugs as soon as March in some Japanese hospitals. The medical robot will be released later to Europe and the US. They have been in development for a couple of years on their first robot and hope to have this generating revenue in the field of $315 million by 2016. The robot will cost hundreds of thousands of dollars or a lot more yen. Panasonic isn’t going for the usual robot design we see today. Its more like the robot out of “Flight of the Navigator” the one where Sarah Jessica Parker sneaks in on,and the kid sneaks out of. There are a lot of compartments, and small cubbies to store your prescribed goods. The robot can dispense about 400 prescriptions to 400 patients with in the period of about 2 hours, also including injection drugs. Panasonic is excited about its new robotics development center and its first robot, and plans to develop more in the coming future.

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Kobian Robot gets Mad or Sad…

JoeVaughn — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 01:02:25 +0000

So a Japanese company Kobian are at it again with an artificial intelligence robot. This robot may not be as pretty as the J-Girl robot, but this one can express
seven different emotions from apathy to disgust. The robot features human like hands, independent eyebrows, lips, and fully functional body. Besides having an attitude or being an angel, the robot can recognize it’s environment, and perform scheduled tasks. The Robot was first designed to help take care of the elderly, also be a companion. I guess it could double as an undertaker.
I would be terrified to have this thing around me. The kid robot, looks less creepy than this, but i guess I wouldn’t trust a kid to hold a pillow over may face till I died. Just a robot that looks like Joan Rivers. Check out the video.

KOBIAN: Emotional Humanoid Robot – Watch more amazing videos here

The Saga Continues…

JoeVaughn — Mon, 25 May 2009 21:21:26 +0000

So in a third installment there is a third piece of Transforming awesomeness to be hold. Its a a transforming laptop. Modeled after the Qosmio laptop this transformer which ill transform into the cassette player, Autobot Blaster. This Transformer doesn’t however play an cassettes but is a multi port USB drive. So you can plug in Ravage for some USB on USB action. Hot. This little bad bay come with a price tag of about 40 bucks, and at this point is available in Japan. But they thats why us white Otaku’s have j-list.com right?

Transforming Mouse…

JoeVaughn — Thu, 21 May 2009 20:19:50 +0000

Ravage I'm coming for you. Someone please remove this cord.

So you pre-ordered the Decepticon USB Tranformer. Finally after a long wait… Um 2 days? The release of the pre-order Trypticon Transforming Lazer Mouse. Thats right geeks, now you can battle your USB against your mouse to a fight that will never end. Like the Spiderman Movies.

This little guy will cost you about 60 bucks, hey you already spent 50 on a USB drive, and now you can have endless fun with the both. Or at least convince your kids your not a total geek, your still hip and cool. Granted your still not a virgin, and actual some poor girl bear your seed. Ha. Were geeks we “make every girl in the area pregnant.” – Jermaine. What. Um. What?

You should know I'm trying to correct this.

Transformer USB

JoeVaughn — Wed, 20 May 2009 00:05:34 +0000

Its finally here. The day I’ve dreamed of since I was like 14. A USB that would transform. Not just transform, but transform into a Transformer. Ravage is the first to roll out in this line of Transformer USB flash drives. He’s the awesome one that transforms into the cassette recorder and an Tripredacus Agent. For our younger readers, that’s a tape desk. Ravage is a Decepticon but that’s no reason to hate. You know you want one. I know I’ve battled my other flash drives. They always try to have battled for supremacy but never officially. However now it’s officially on.

Ravage 2 gig, selling for 49.95, and the pre odre is already sold out.

Direction asking Robots…

JoeVaughn — Sat, 16 May 2009 04:56:00 +0000

The ACE (Autonomous City Explorer) robot was built by the researchers at the Technical University of Munich. This funky little bot asks people for directions as it travels down the street. ACE uses cameras to recognize people and stops them to asks them to point in the direction that is indicated on its screen, and is able to recognize the direction the people point. The bot uses maps out the city as it goes along the streets.

On the test run ACE was able to go a little under a mile just by asking 38 people to point the directions on the screen in about 5 hours. Better than the bum that circles the buildings downtown and asks for directions to a place just south of heaven.

Creepy Japanese Don’t Build It…

JoeVaughn — Fri, 15 May 2009 23:45:06 +0000

Developers at Japan’s Osaka University are building a child robot. The child robot has a biomimetic body. So thats awesome. Whats biomimetic you say. Glad you asked. Biomimetic is human-made processes, substances, devices, or systems that imitate nature. Want more info get as smart as me.

The child robot is named CB2 such as child squared. My freaky little buddy

Hey Mister, buy me a sixer?

sports 51 air actuators, 5 motors, and 197 tactile sensors. Also has freaky alien gray silicone suit that hides its innards. The little robot boy is 4 feet and 3 inches tall, and weights 73 pounds.

Am I the TOY?

The child has the capabilities of a 1-2 year old right now. They are focusing on getting the child to imitate facial expressions. The child can also walk with some human

help. I hope they hold his hand when crossing the street. Cause I will run this thing over. Thinking its an alien sent here to take over the world. As a side note, I break for E.T. I’m not heartless. Although children robots are.

CB2 is equipped with 51 air actuators, 5 motors, and 197 tactile sensors under its soft gray silicone skin. It measures about 4 feet, 3 inches tall and weighs 73 pounds.

You sick bastard.