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OmniZero 9 is the latest version of Takeshi Maeda’s series of awesome robots. It actually kicked ass and won at the annual ROBO-ONE competition in Toyoma, Japan, beating another robot with such an awesome name as AerobattlerMonstar. Whoa!
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Ever used the line, “You have to sleep now, Tom, or the horrible booger monster will come out of your rectum, eat your shit, slice your testicles to paper-thin shreds, then make you smell its hairy nuts” to your beloved kid who just wouldn’t take a nap? It’s a terrible “lie,” of course, but it’s [...]

Artist Mio I-zawa’s “mechanical tumor” is like a piece of “fleshy, organic-looking material” that expands and contracts depending on the amount of your computer’s load. Play some hardcore 3D game shit, and it will palpitate like a mother, as shown in this video.
Actually some sort of CPU load meter, the “mechanical tumor” is just one [...]

This would really hurt the street cred of this monstah, ending its movie career.
“It’s a distinct possibility that Sue died of starvation by a substantial infection in the back of the throat” brought on by a tiny parasite, said Ewan Wolff, a paleontologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and lead author of a paper describing [...]

If you were born, like, just now, be glad to know somebody has compiled ALL the shit you should’ve seen since the youtubes was invented into a watchable video of about 4 minutes. So you don’t feel left out, ever. Welcome to garbage.

Japanese otakus, or geeks, love some stuff that may seem bizarre to people living in other planets. Take these pillows printed with anime characters, for instance, or realistic love dolls dressed up like junior high school girls. They even take these “love objects” on the train!

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Women from 20 countries — an unforgiving, totally infallible demographic — voted German men as the world’s worst lovers for being “too smelly.” This after most probably experiencing wild drunken orgies of teabagging during some Oktoberfest, or worse. Hmmm, okay, but what about German girls?

Trees don’t talk, but some people nevertheless give this advice on how to talk to a tree, to obtain nice things like wisdom and self-assurance and good vibes and shit, all wordlessly. Is this insane? At least one human doesn’t think so:
Call me a hippie, but in my world, it’s always tree-communing season–lush summer, earthy [...]

The real one-man-band.

Must be the hair! Or the sex face!

What looks like a relative of that testicles-churning Montauk monster that was formerly the blogger’s device for scaring annoying kids was spotted in Panama. Emerging from a cave, teenagers saw that creepy fuck and promptly beat it to death, with sticks.

Fearing for the safety as it moved towards them, the youths claim they attacked the [...]

Ray Kurzweil really can’t be stopped — at least not from talking. Although die-able and really old himself, he wants people to understand death is really an “option,” or at least your punishment for being stupid or having no money. And that technology, and any other shiny thing, really gets him hard.
For Kurzweil, the crux [...]

“ABB Robots installed by RG Luma are helping specialist food company Honeytop to speed up its pancake production and improve health, safety & hygiene,” just to really live up to the whole “untouched by human hands” thing. Except at one point certain humans actually would still touch the food, for good ol’ germs!

Circa 1880. A heartbreaking regretful time when Frederic Auguste Bartholdi, in finishing the Statue of Liberty, had to choose between “more steel” and “death ray.” The former won, of course. These are them behind-the-scene pics.

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Here’s a really *compelling* reason to stay away from pretty women: a research study! And it basically says that in the presence of hot ladies, the little head takes over and does all the thinking.
The research shows men who spend even a few minutes in the company of an attractive woman perform less well in [...]

Some ninja members of Mercy for Animals “infiltrated” poultry farm Hy-Line North America, in Iowa, and videoed how male chicks — deemed less profitable than females — are systematically killed a few minutes after hatching by putting them on a conveyor belt that tosses them down a meat grinder, alive. Yes, that would be 150,000 [...]

US President Barack Obama in a highly important demonstration of “how to snap a famous physicist’s neck and still look awesome.”
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