Infinite Innovation
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Shake the world.
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My tour of Wing’s Castle in Millbrook, NY.
Made from 80% recycled material
Just another bit of inspiration that will influence every structure,...
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Stained-Glass Watertower
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No stars to reach for … ??
The Avatar Economy
Are remote workers the brains inside tomorrow’s robots?
Full Story: Technology Review
Will this become the future of work?
Fish-shaped robots automatically monitor water pollution and provide real-time data
We’ve already seen environmental experts get help gathering data with the Creek Watch iPhone app, which enables citizens to monitor the health of their local watershed. Now a UK-based project has turned its concept of human-less monitoring into reality in the form of its fish-shaped automated SHOAL robots. READ MORE…
Sebastian?!
Tomorrow’s cover today: as robots grow more autonomous, society needs to develop rules to manage them.
We were just chatting with the folks at #innochat about this new issue of The Economist. The real question is how do we set the ethics for robots when there is not even a human standard for ethics? This will become an even more relevant question as technology advances in 5, 10, 20 years from now.
Go Geeks Go!
Today someone here at WOBI ran into an ice cream fundraiser being held to help beat cancer that was put on by the robotics team from Union City High School in Union City, NJ.
The picture above is taken from one of their qualifying matches that you can watch here on YouTube. And yes, those are pom poms.
We talked to the team coach and he said the fundraiser was the idea of his students.
Their robotics team has a Facebook page that, in our opinion, deserves many more “likes”. So if you believe in innovation and young people doing good while pursuing science, technology, engineering, and mathematics — why not go ahead and click?
The best morphing hexapod robot video you’ll see today — guaranteed.
Beware of… Robo Squirrel
Robot squirrel aids animal behavior study
Using techniques imported from Toyota, Herman Miller has achieved stunning efficiency while empowering its workers.
An American-Made Miracle: How Your Aeron Chair Gets Built In 17 Seconds
LEGO Mindstorms: Can One Thousand Hackers Be Wrong?
Fun video featuring MIT professor of Innovation Eric von Hippel on the impact of empowering your customers to innovate.
Robot Journalism Isn’t Scary, It’s Just Plain Bad
“More outlets are hiring companies that generate news articles using software. “Just feed it some statistics and, within seconds, the clever software produces highly readable stories,” explains Morozov, referencing Narrative Science, the company Forbes has hired to do its robot journalism. ”In the long run,” he writes, “the civic impact of such technologies—which are only in their infancy today—may be more problematic.” As in…if cheaper, faster robots can do it, why hire journalists? Won’t this lead to the ultimate degredation of a “noble” profession? Everyone, calm down. The robots aren’t very good.”
It’s clear… until there are robot reviewers, this software isn’t going to get any good press. But seriously folks, click through for the full human-crafted article on The Atlantic Wire.
Sprinkles Cupcake ATM
Since the Sprinkles 24-hour cupcake automat opened for business last Tuesday, it has been dispensing 1,000 cupcakes a day at a rate of one per minute. At some points lines stretched halfway down the block, sometimes running 50 people deep. The lines were long, even when the bakery was open.
What a perfect free marketing campaign that ads just one more way of getting the product to consumers.
Since we posted about this when the news broke, thought you might like to see the cupcake ATM in action — sweet!
