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Encore!!! Je ne sais pas qu’elle peut être la viabilité énergétique des objets intelligents, la plupart nécessitant vraisemblablement du courant pour fonctionner, mais certains sont définitivement tentants…
Bien moins sophistiqué que le robot amoureux cité auparavant, voici un petit robot destiné à insuffler de l’amour ou moins de la compassion. Basique il ne peux que rouler vers l’avant. Mais sa destination est inscrite sur son antenne… Il dépend alors de la bonne volonté des gens pour accomplir sa mission. Qu’il réussira en une journée. Qui a dit que les New yorkais étaient des sauvages!
Gizmodo – NYU Student Conducts Most Adorable Robot Experiment Ever – Tweenbot NYU Student Conducts Most Adorable Robot Experiment Ever By Dan Nosowitz, 5:00 PM on Sat Apr 11 2009, 154,916 views The tweenbot, a cardboard-bodied, cheerful little bugger, is equipped with a flag stating its intended destination. Since it can only move forward, it depends on the kindness of strangers to guide it and remove obstacles.
Pas de message subliminal… Juste une visualisation des prénoms les plus donnés aux US… Assez fun
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Une méthode "dangereuse" mais ancienne pour garder l’économie locale vivante : insérer un micro-système économique dans le système existant, pour encourager l’achat local…
Une rustine, mais intéressante.
Communities print their own currency to keep cash flowing – USATODAY.com A small but growing number of cash-strapped communities are printing their own money. Borrowing from a Depression-era idea, they are aiming to help consumers make ends meet and support struggling local businesses. The systems generally work like this: Businesses and individuals form a network to print currency. Shoppers buy it at a discount — say, 95 cents for $1 value — and spend the full value at stores that accept the currency.
Voici Kenji… Le premier robot se prenant un râteau! Le premier râteau numérique de l’histoire. Kenji, programmé pour prendre soin de personnes est tombé amoureux d’une interne lui faisant répéter ses routines, au point qu’il refusa de la laisser partir. Intervention, des responsables, le robot est éteint…définitivement… Excessif, le premier acte d’amour robotique a été arrêté.
Robot Programmed to Love Goes too Far Kyoto, JP -3 March 2009- Staff. Researchers at Toshiba’s Akimu Robotic Research Institute were thrilled ten months ago when they successfully programmed Kenji, a third generation humanoid robot, to convincingly emulate certain human emotions. At the time, they even claimed that Kenji was capable of the robot equivalent of love. Now, however, they fear that his programming has taken an extreme turn for the worst.
Il embauche des femmes girafes maintenant…
C’est vrai que les petites PME n’ont pas les moyens de communiquer de façon professionnelle…
Voici une campagne de publicité du journal « The Zimbabwean » écrit par un groupe de journalistes exilé. La panneau est composé de vrais billets de monnaie « sans valeur » à cause de l’inflation monstre…
Un belle et triste analyse de l’activisme sur internet…
We wanted to prove to the world that there were perfectly rational reasons to be antiwar. That is why we spent weeks, months and years coding and polishing an ephemeral reservoir of antiwar justifications. The result of our labor was a cutting-edge site accessible only via a computer with sufficient memory, plugged into to an Internet connection with enough bandwidth, using a browser upgraded to the latest version and — most importantly – discovered via the right search query results ranked by the arbitrary decisions of the web censors, aka search engines.
All that time spent translating our activist spirit and youthful idealism into a website garnered us 20,000 anonymous visitors a month but didn’t stop the occupation of Iraq. Those faceless fickle many, whose visits we eagerly monitored via our server logs, and not the residents living on our block became our litmus test of success. We never questioned whether activism premised upon putting all ones energy into binary data was the best use of our talents. It just made sense. Looking back on those lost hours, I think we missed an opportunity for social change.
http://www.adbusters.org/blogs/blackspot_blog/abandon_point_and_click_activism.html
