Wish you had your own electronic, personal assistant like Tony Stark’s J.A.R.V.I.S. in Iron Man? This guy did and when he discovered he couldn’t pick one up at Wal-Mart he decided to make his own.
Chad Barraford has wired his home to be his personal assistant. His house now greets him when he enters, delivers the weather upon request, updates his Facebook page for him, dims the lights, controls his appliances, notifys him of breaking news, assists in cooking, tracks packages, handles his netflix account, handles his finances, and even does bittorrenting for him.
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Ghostbusters 3 has been lusted after since the second one nearly two decades ago. Lately there seems to be the will to get it done, but the project continues sputtering around in development hell with Dan Akyroyd declaring that he’s already tuning up Ecto 1 and on the other side crotchety Bill Murray insistant that it’ll never get done. But Bill, we need it to get done. The world needs Ghostbusters 3 and I’m here to tell you why.
Science is in trouble.
On film our heroes are underage douche bags who befriend robots or children with mystical powers or worse, vapid bimbos who lust after fangless vampires. Peter Parker the awkward but brilliant student from the comics has been replaced by Peter Parker that emo kid who whines about relationships. Batman is still a detective, but he steals all his best gadgets from the hapless, underpaid inventors in his mega-corporation’s cellar. Indiana Jones, former man of science, hides inside a fridge to escape a nuclear explosion. Wolverine is a product of science, but he’d like the scientists who did it dead and spends most of the time trying to stab anyone who knows how to use a particle accelerator. Dr. Robert Langdon wastes his degrees solving cases to help shore up fervent religious belief in the corrupt Catholic Church. Star Wars has turned into a religion in which people worship microscopic aliens. Watching Jesus being beat to death by Mel Gibson’s camera was a moviegoing event of unparalleled scale and the less said about The Chronicles of Narnia’s Christ obsession the better. In WALL-E it was science that made everyone fat and in The Matrix we’re all just batteries plugged into science’s mechanical menace. Paranormal Activity is the number one movie at the box office this weekend because it makes a world full of mysticism and evil spirits seem like reality, a reality beyond our control. read this entry »
Science Fiction has always been a fertile breeding ground for real scientific innovation, but I doubt anyone thought that the Transporter on Star Trek would ever be more than just a fantasy. It would seem however, that not only is matter teleportation possible… it has already been done!
Fox News reports that quantum information has been teleported between two separate atoms a meter a part. Yeah I have no idea what quantum information is either, but dammit, it sounds cool!
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