Scary Cool Tech Thread
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- i_monk1
- This is a thing.. https://www.reddit.c…err
- Yes, and it's scary cool.i_monk
- does tattoos?prophetone
- https://media.giphy.…sarahfailin
- utopian0
- so stupidautoflavour
- looks supra dumbBennn
- It's been done:
http://factor-tech.c…ETM - nice watch, fucking DORKAl_dizzle
- trump casino 24/7 slot watchmoldero
- dbloc1
- This will never become reality on a commercial scale.utopian
- why not?dbloc
- because how about we focus on getting hot dog buns and hot dogs to be the same amount first. 12 buns but only 8 hot dogs?damnit what am i supposedkona
- to do with these other 4 fucking buns now?none of my children want PBJs made from hotdog buns. this needs to become a reality first.kona
- ^ Hadbloc
- LOLmoldero
- dbloc0
New Quartz Coin Can Store 360TB of Data for 14 Billion Years
http://futurism.com/memory-that-…- finally time to replace my zip driveprophetone
- 113'333 hd movies on a single disk.uan
- lol @ zip drivesarahfailin
- Where can i get a cheap quartz coin drive? Amazon sucks...jagara
- But I need to store data for at least 15 Billion Years. Sorry, not impressed.Krassy
- i_monk1
A fake skylight that looks like the sun.
- ApeRobot0
Not scary ,but cool
THAW is a novel interaction system that allows a collocated large display and small handheld devices to seamlessly work together. The smartphone acts both as a physical interface and as an additional graphics layer for near-surface interaction on a computer screen. Our system enables accurate position tracking of a smartphone placed on or over any screen by displaying a 2D color pattern that is captured using the smartphone’s back-facing camera. The proposed technique can be implemented on existing devices without the need for additional hardware.
- jagara1
Hmm. I don't think i have seen human-looking robot hand gestures like these before. On some levels more impressive than the Boston Dynamics parkour robots.
- I understand the appeal. Like you said, "on some levels" it seems more impressive. I'm all for replicating arthropod mechanics which are much more impressive.palimpsest
- Walks away like it shit its pants, tho.jagara
- When are I Robot-like robots a mass market thing? 50 years? Less? Not happening?jagara
- I don't think it will be happening. It's fun in the movies but we'll soon catch up to reality. I have faith in humanitypalimpsest
- The sooner we realize we are not the pinnacle of evolution and that evolution never stops the better off we'll be.palimpsest
- Arthropods have been it at our longer and have have more efficient mechanics than we do.
Arthropods FTW.palimpsest - So what do you suggest? Insect-like robots? Or are you just changing the subject to something entirely different?jagara
- If you are building robots to do generalized human tasks, giving them human form makes immediate sense, IMO. Not a robotics expert.jagara
- I'm not trying to change the subject, I think we can interact with "machines" in a human manner without them even having a body: ChatGPT.palimpsest
- I think the humanoid robot is a old idea and that there are more efficient solutions. I'm not a robotics expert either. I just have a big mouf.palimpsest
- I need it to wear my skinny leg jeans after I wash them, and stretch them out a bit so they are comfortable again..slappy
- Beeswax1
- As a long time contact lens user I can say that it's going to fail big time, for now. There's no way its comfortable to wear at this stageBeeswax
- ^ This. And I'm saying that as a person who sleeps in daily contacts for months at a time.garbage
- pop up ads are gonna be a bitchdopepope
- ^ can you imagine hacking them? That was my dream when Google Glass didn't take off.garbage
- scarabin3
That google Ai that went sentient has hired itself an attorney and begun filing things on its behalf.
- nb2
- I don't see this as a viable replacement for most rocket usage, as it's not *that* much better and has a lot of payload limitations...Nairn
- ie ( https://twitter.com/… )Nairn
- But what I do think a system like this would be amazing for is simply hurling up water etc, to be caught by space-based platforms and and then orbited.Nairn
- Water is SO useful - fuel, drink, farming sustenance, radiatiopn shielding, etc, etc. Until we start mining comets, we need to bring our own.Nairn
- Launching parts and tools for ISS. Launching modular satellites that can assemble themselves or by remotenb
- No one is claiming it will replace all rocketsnb
- Then we agree :)
It's just often pitched thus.Nairn
- pablo281
Photorealistic Monocular 3D Reconstruction of Humans Wearing Clothing
"Given a single image, we reconstruct the full 3D geometry – including self-occluded (or unseen) regions – of the photographed person, together with albedo and shaded surface color. Our end-to-end trainable pipeline requires no image matting and reconstructs all outputs in a single step."
- https://twitter.com/…pablo28
- I'll believe it when I see it actually done, not the results. Honestly, looks like total bs to me, but we'll see, someday.formed
- Not hard to predict someone’s ass shape and what the back of their jeans look like lolnb
- duckseason1
MIT's Robotic Cheetah Taught Itself How to Run and Set a New Speed Record in the Process
"It might not be the most graceful thing to watch when moving at high speeds, but the Mini Cheetah hit a new top speed of 3.9 m/s, or a little over 8.7 MPH, which is faster than the average human can run."