] This ad is most definitely a nod to the filmmakers Peter
] Fischli and David Weiss. Their 1987 film, "The Way Things
] Go" is a 30-minute-long showing of a contraption they
] built out of household items.

[wow. :O -Nano]

Honda's New Accord

From Read_Me.txt in dir:
] These files mirror, brought to you courtesy of V1ru5,
] TheVoidAKABoB, and SystemFailure, seem to go well
] with the presentation that Acidus was to give at
] Interz0ne.

Lots of information on the Blackboard CampusWide system.

CampusWide Information Mirror (Socialfreedom)

Because it's unhealthy. Because it has become our obsession. Because it is dangerous -- a runaway train, roaring down a path to disaster.

Michael Malone writes in the February issue of Red Herring. (This is the article that John Markoff mentioned in today's NYT article.)

Forget Moore's Law | Red Herring

] Japanese PC Watch Site has tons of cool new photos from
] robots featured at this years Robodex 2003 Trade-Show.

Wow... A car show for robots...

[This is cool - Nano]

I4U :: Future Technology News - More Amazing Photos From Robodex 2003

] A US company called Tonight's Menu Intelligent Ovens
] (TMIO) has come up with a refrigerated microwave that can
] be controlled over the net or by mobile phone.
]
] The product is part of a trend towards the smart kitchen
] hooked up to the internet, so that you can browse the
] contents of the fridge or tell the oven to immediately
] refrigerate your chicken once it is cooked.
]
] "This provides the keystone appliance of the internet
] kitchen," said David Mansbery, TMIO President. "This will
] be the start of the future."

BBC NEWS | Technology | Wired oven keeps food cool

] Almost 40 million U.S. adults are obese, according to the
] Centers for Disease Control, and this year some 70,000 of
] them will go under the knife to have their stomachs
] bypassed or stapled in painful and expensive procedures
] that prevent overeating. But if human trials now under
] way in the United States pan out, overweight people may
] one day have a less invasive surgical option: a device
] that helps people feel full by stimulating the stomach
] with electricity in much the same way a pacemaker
] stimulates the heart.

I thought this was a pretty neat idea...isn't technology just strange sometimes.

Stomach Pacemaker

] Instead, most robots remain human-dependent machines that
] can perform only specialized tasks, like welding parts in
] a factory, searching through the rubble of a collapsed
] building or vacuuming a living room. Few display what
] could be considered sensitivity to people, and those that
] do tend to be toys, like Sony's Aibo pet, that serve only
] to entertain.
]
] Robotics researchers are realizing that the journey to
] more autonomous, adaptable robots will require more than
] just improvements in mechanical, sensory and computing
] capabilities. Equally important, they say, is improving
] the way people and robots interact: after all, they say,
] that may be how robots will learn, and to be truly
] useful, robots must be acceptable to people.
]
] "Now that robots are beginning to come into

Making Robots More Like Us

] Australian scientists have made a bra with a brain - it
] tightens its own straps if an energetic wearer needs
] extra support.
] The "smart bra" is made of a fabric with a special
] coating that makes it contract when the strain on it
] passes a pre-set level.

Just think of the applications for a fabric like this. Very cool.

New Zealand News - NZ - Brainy bra gives lift when you need it

] A Japanese scientist has developed a coat which appears
] to make the wearer invisible.

How many books can you name that featured an invisibility cloak?

[whoa...this is sooo rad....-Nano]

Ananova - Japanese scientist invents 'invisibility cloak'

] You'll be able to buy a humanoid as early as next
] year.

Popular Science | Here Come the Two-Legged Aibos