Petman – Big Dog’s little brother

Everyone is still freaked out by Big Dog, right?

Well brace yourself for this video:

Technology Review say it’s for “for military…

Petman – Big Dog’s little brother

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Collapse – an intelluctual horror movie

the challenge being faced by the human race now is evolve or perish; grow up or die

That killer quote comes from the trailer for Collapse:

Collapse – an intelluctual horror movie

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Just after tomorrow, a spaceship filled with plucky adventurers will land on our planet’s surface. They will see our species, residing in mobile hell-fortresses circled by tireless killer robot drones and rings of dead birds, their stomachs stuffed with plastic. After a suspenseful quest, they will find the bowels of these machines powered by a constant stream of cute, innocent-looking animals; with the occasional dissident tossed into the furnace for good measure.

Such a monstrous race of tyrants, they will conclude, must be stopped.

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Matt Webb on participatory culture and design

I was going to call this 50mins of pure mind candy, but that doesn’t quite capture it. Mind superfood might be a better description. Matt Webb’s opening keynote for Wedirections South is an mp3…

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in this game you could be a sentient octopus, whose mind has been uploaded into swarm of nano-machines, that’s dating a rockstar who is actually the third person to play that rockstar, and whose persona is a different gender than the body it inhabits, and is fighting against a person who has modified themself past being human while at the same time is infected with an alien nano-virus that is slowly turning them into alien agent while sabotaging a space habitat that’s made largely from bacon.

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