You forget the third leg in the Japanese project triangle: sexy. So you can have blue humanoid robots but they won't be sexy, or you can have sexy humanoid robots but they won't be blue.

The sexy blue faction was really happy with the attention Avatar brought to their often overlooked cause.

I can't believe discussion on this topic turned into a heated debate on consciousness and metaphysics, ignoring the explosive impact this research will have on the sex toy industry, especially for the fellas.

No longer will man have to rely on his imagination to put life into the can of Pillsbury biscuit dough he's humping (or the silicon equivalent of the same technology). With the new Thrust Delaying harness your Canned Tang, Handee Man, Li'l Tugger, and Bone Cone can take on a spooky life of it's own! Dial up the delay and you'll think Patrick Swayze was giving you a reach-around via Woopie Goldberg! That's some stranger danger you can feel safe about!

Why stop there? Hook it up to an amp so you can control the volume and tone of your thrusts and plug in some effect pedals to play with the peak and trough of your strokes!

Truly a great landmark day in the history of onanism. Hopefully this will herald growth and innovation (like cotton in a cotton gin) instead of isolating pain and humiliation (like a penis in a cotton gin).

This is the 3D equivalent of an HP all-in-one scanner/printer that can scan at 500 dpi (.05 mm), but prints at 250 dpi (0.1 mm).

So yeah, expectations of mechanically compatible reproductions are a bit far reaching.

If they want to talk about this as an exoskeleton, they need to show someone walking with a load. Otherwise, this is just a mobile platform for the Equipois ZeroG arm which is basically a steadycam mount for industrial equipment.

Specifically, I understand that the frame transfers the weight of the rig to the ground (rather than to a chest harness in a traditional steadycam), but unless they show the device dynamically transfering the weight from hip to hip so the wearer can walk without bearing the load, it's not so much an exoskeleton as it is a step-in tool mount.

Now back to the dick jokes because the first post and a dozen others have not yet completely worn out the heavy tool trope.

..a prosthetic hand? So to make it work, it has to be remotely operated by the working hand? Otherwise, isn't it just a narcissistic recursive device: command hand to poke at iPod so it can command the hand to poke at the iPod?

Do they make pedal powered wheelchairs?

...include 3 small volcanoes and a glass dome containing some dead plant material.

I had the Scott Adams story in another tab and forgot I had switched to this story before getting up to refill my coffee mug. I came back to my computer and read your comment and thought, "damn, this thread got dark real quick."

Reading the photo's cation, "The sand flea Tunga penetrans, here in a scanning electron microscope several days after penetrating the skin. The abdominal opening protrudes on the right," I thought it was an image of the flea in situ with it's ass stuck through a chunk of the skin it was excised with.

In fact, that giant doughnut around it's midsection is the part that "over 2 weeks [...] swells up to many times its original size, reaching a diameter of up to 10 mm." It's not even fully distended in the photo. Fully inflated, the flea looks like a pearl onion. A fecund pearl onion under your skin erupting with eggs.

When Satan was going through puberty, these were his blackheads.

'Cause the Black Market be all like, "If only we could post on anyone's FB timeline! Combined with the 4 question marks we've gathered, we can have all the Bitcoins!"

I remember this place in the 80's. My parents would take us out to Chinatown every week from the 'burbs to get some "real" groceries, and my brother and I would beg for a quarter so we can play a game. That was the one and only place I've ever seen the the machine where you can play Tic-Tac-Toe with a live chicken.