A few months back, scientists at the University of Alberta built a piece of software that could not lose at the game of checkers. Even if you played the game perfectly, at best you’d end up with a tie. Somehow I doubt that most online gamers are looking for games that they can’t beat, but [...]
Posted on September 4th, 2007 by Davis
Filed under: Robots, Technology, Video Games | 4 Comments »
This weekend I had an opportunity to check out the RoboGames in San Francisco. I had a great time looking at all the different types of robots and watching the games. They had robots that played soccer, a lego robot that doubled as a pooper scooper, even an R2D2 unit that just seemed to beep [...]
Posted on June 18th, 2007 by Davis
Filed under: Robots, Technology | 6 Comments »
I’ve always been a fan of iRobot as a consumer, but I’ve never been a big fan of their stock. When the company first went public, there was a lot of buzz, but I could never get past their razor thin margins. I knew that they were doing interesting things, but my interests were elsewhere, [...]
Posted on May 22nd, 2007 by Davis
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Skeptics tried to call me a conspiracy nut, when I exposed how far TiVo is willing to go, in order to accomplish their master plan of controlling a robot army, but the skeptics were wrong and I now have video evidence of this plot in action! The YouTube clip embedded above was emailed to me [...]
Posted on May 10th, 2007 by Davis
Filed under: Disclosure - I own stock in co. mentioned, Marketing, Robots, Technology, TiVo | 3 Comments »
There are some pretty weird things that show up on the internet and just when I think that technology can’t get any more bizarre, I find out that scientists have created a synthetic form of snot that will help robots distinguish between one smell or another. We already have a number of devices that are [...]
Posted on May 3rd, 2007 by Davis
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Jack in the Box is reporting that they’ve started a new program on a very limited basis, where they refuse to pay their new employees overtime, give them any breaks, make them work 24/7, and they are paying them less then a dollar an hour to take orders from customers. No, they haven’t taken a [...]
Posted on December 5th, 2006 by Davis
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Just Because Im Paranoid Doesnt Mean They’re Not Watching You Hosted on Zooomr TiVo’s Blue Moon video may have turned out to be a viral marketing stunt, but that hasn’t stopped me from trying to figure out the source behind the campaign. When I first found out that the video was part of a larger [...]
Posted on September 15th, 2006 by Davis
Filed under: Disclosure - I own stock in co. mentioned, Robots, TiVo | 1 Comment »