Geek Drivel

This article interests me. Not for the prurient aspects — sorry, I’m just not all that interested in dolls, even life-sized and anatomically-correct ones — but for what happens when artificial intelligence can make them a lot more real? When you can easily believe that a robotic woman is the real thing, except that she’s never jealous, has headaches, or complains about you leaving the toilet seat up or the toothpaste cap off?

It’ll be interesting to see how things play out.

As a fan of science-fiction, I’ve often paused to wonder just why an alien race might, in real life, be interested in Earth and/or humans. The plots in SF books, movies, and games are, for the most part, simply laughable — they want humans as food or because we’re a good place to lay their larvae? Right — if they evolved on a different planet, the chances that humans would taste good or be nourishing for their children are somewhere between slim and nil.
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I always got an odd look when I told people that I enjoyed watching the Buffy the Vampire Slayer TV series. Something along the lines of “you’d admit to that, voluntarily?” I also really enjoyed the Firefly series, and the Serenity movie that capped it off. So I was interested to read about creator Joss Whedon’s new project Dollhouse as well. It sounds intriguing, and I look forward to seeing it.

Exterminate! EXTERMINATE!

Photonic tweezers for electronics and microbiology… Star Trek: Voyager’s holographic doctor will have all of his tools available once someone invents him.

We’ll get that Dick Tracy watch down to a usable size sooner or later.

I have the distinct impression that when they figure out why the reference kilogram is losing weight, it will turn out to be one of the most significant scientific finds of the twenty-first century.

I’m not into Halo 3 itself, but this article (thanks, Joshua) reinforces what I’ve been saying about computer gaming for the last couple decades, back when “multi-player” meant two players using modems at best, or a hot-seat arrangement on a single system.

Yes, folks, the Probe Droid from The Empire Strikes Back is now a reality.

Man, I love technology! Even if it’s decades before they can levitate anything bigger than a quarter, just the thought of things like this, or the “invisibility cloak” that the same people came up with the theory for a little while back, interests me to no end.