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Michael Buble claims many singers are like “robots” because their vocals all sound the same. The star has waded into the auto tuning debate, which sees recording studios use special software to improve people’s pitch and sound.
Is it a bird?…is it a plane?… or is it a government surveillance camera that is watching us? We all have seen them in the Sci-fi movies little robotic bugs walking around turning into robots or used as a weapon. And now they became real It was a long time ago when the computers […]
When Michael Bay wants to play with toys, Brian Goldner brings the toy box.
Technologist Eric Drexler envisioned a future in which machines far smaller than dust motes would construct everything from chairs to rocket engines, atom by atom; in which microscopic robots would heal human ills, cell by cell. Sixteen years after the publication of Drexler’s book Engines of Creation, the molecular-scale technologies most immediately available to consumers are somewhat less fantastic: stain-resistant khakis and more durable tennis balls.
If you haven’t been listening to pop radio in the past few months, you’ve missed the rise of two seemingly opposing trends.
Thirty-eight years ago, Joseph McGinty Nichol was a boy in Kalamazoo, Michigan, playing with toy robots. Today “McG,” as he is better known, builds and blows up real robots. The prominent filmmaker is the driving force behind one of the season’s summer blockbusters, “Terminator Salvation,” which is filled with very expensive and very explosive robots.