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Production Line Built From Legos Builds Lego Cars

When I was a kid, my favorite toys were Legos. Many a rainy day was spent building planes and spaceships, supercars and battleships, medieval castles and futuristic moon bases. But I never made anything like this. Constructed using Lego’s Mindstorm Robots, this is an autonomous production line capable of building Lego cars. It can even select the color of the blocks used. Consider my little Lego geek mind blown.

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Posted in art, hacks, movie, tech 9:42 am by MILITANTPLATYPUS

Spoon



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Posted in enviro 3:55 pm by MILITANTPLATYPUS

Standards!

On Monday, the Open Mobile Terminal Platform (OMTP)–a forum dominated by operators but including manufacturers such as Nokia, Samsung, Motorola, Sony Ericsson and LG–announced that its members had agreed on micro-USB as the future common connector.

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Posted in cellphones, consumable, tech 1:01 pm by MILITANTPLATYPUS

Monday Morning News

  • New version of Gmail being tested
  • Starbucks To Start Up iTunes Wi-Fi Store with 50 Million Free Songs
  • Microsoft readies “Halo 3″ for launch
  • Australian Web Censorship Continues Down The Slippery Slope
  • Feeling tinfoilish? $5 billion suit against Google over privacy, terrorism - “Mr. Jayne has filed suit against Google and its founders for supposed “crimes against humanity,” aiding terrorism, and putting his personal safety at risk.”
  • Institute urges the EU to unbundle Windows
  • T-Mobile Kiosk: We Unlock iPhones!
  • Security

  • Critical Acrobat Reader security flaw exposes Windows to arbitrary exploits
  • Myspace to launch ad-supported cell phone
  • New $5 Bill Debuts
  • Freeware of the Week

  • Foxit Reader
  • News of the Weird

  • Tech worker dies in vat of sulfuric acid
  • Australian Navy Pays for Breast Implants
  • A Lake Charles, La., man was killed in August by a single gunshot, which was explained by Sheriff Tony Mancuso: “(The man and his girlfriend) were engaged in consensual sexual behavior involving a firearm when the firearm was discharged, resulting in his death.” [KPLC-TV (Lake Charles), 8-2-07]
  • Posted in Monday Morning News 8:21 am by MILITANTPLATYPUS

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    NSFW Joke

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    Posted in Friday Funny, NSFW 9:28 am by MILITANTPLATYPUS

    Young MC

    Posted in music 8:59 am by MILITANTPLATYPUS

    New Games!



    8 new games this week, check em out!

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    Posted in games, site info 1:15 pm by MILITANTPLATYPUS

    USB 3.0



    Do you find that USB 2.0 is not really meeting your needs, and are thinking about making the change to firewire? You might want to wait it out a bit. USB 2.0 has data transfer speeds of 480Mb/s; where firewire is at 800Mb/s. Intel is working with other companies to release USB 3.0 in mid 2008. It is showing promising speeds of 4.8Gb/s!

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    Posted in computers, consumable, tech 8:54 am by MILITANTPLATYPUS

    NSFW - or is it?

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    Posted in Bonus Post, art, movie 8:48 am by MILITANTPLATYPUS