CLN | ISSUE 03 | OCT-JAN ‘16
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#fact... The average episode of Game of Thrones costs HBO $6 million (US) dollars to make.
The famous Windows start up sound was composed using a Mac.
almost, but not exactly, like humans.
Perhaps with this in mind, when Japanese scientists developed a robot to provide emotional support to the sick and elderly, they chose to There is also the question of what we make it in the shape of a baby seal, called Paro. want our robotic companions to look Similarly, scientists at the University of Lincoln like. While films, from Terminator to Ex went for plain white plastic features when Machina, tend to portray essentially designing a “printable companion”, Marc, that “souped up” humans, in reality we may can be screwed together from 3D-printed be more comfortable with entities that components. Previous research has shown that look a bit less like us. humans readily interact with not much more than a pair of eye brows and a smile, so our The so-called “uncanny valley” effect aesthetic requirements may be the easiest to means that many people find robots meet. creepy when their features look and move
More people speak English in China than the United States.
Blue whales are so enormous that a small child could swim through its veins.
Meet YuMi
The puppeteers who animated the raptors in ‘Jurassic Park’ had to take a 6 week long class on how to move like a dinosaur.
ABB are about to release ‘YuMi’ a sophisticated dual-arm drone robot designed for a ‘new era of automation’. YuMi, short for ‘You and Me’ is so accurate that ABB claim it can easily thread a needle. Very fancy. YuMi could be used during small parts assembly, where people and robots work hand-in-hand on the same tasks.
Borneo’s rainforests have been completely wiped from the map.
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Nanotech clothes are growing rapidly in use. It’s both water and stain resistant.
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Mind reading technology is being deployed for security purposes.
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MIND READING
According to a study, Twitter and Facebook are harder to resist than Tabacco and alcohol.
Several animal species are now threatened for extinction including the African elephant.
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colossal expense, making such machines a very distant prospect in the home.
Vertical farms are a common sight in cities.
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