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Researchers Create Chemically Powered Robotic Jellyfish 36

Posted by Unknown Lamer on Wednesday March 21, 2012 @11:58AM from the robot-sea-monsters dept.

pigrabbitbear writes with an excerpt from an article at Motherboard: "Earlier last week we heard about the strange blob-bot, an amoeba-mimicking, pulsating, little horror of a robot. But that's nothing in the face of news that engineers at Virginia Tech have built a robotic jellyfish. As if the threat of the oceans being taken over by deadly stinging jelly cyborgs isn't scary enough, there's this: the researchers claim that, because their Robojelly is powered by a hydrogen-based catalytic reaction, rather than electricity, it could 'theoretically' power itself indefinitely. When you consider our best options for powering underwater craft are currently batteries, nuclear reactors, or tethers to the surface, a chemically-powered propulsion system is groundbreaking (and, well, a bit nerve-wracking)." The full paper is available for free (at least for 30 days; registration required).

Comment Re:SSH? (Score 1) 154

by jorgef on Tuesday September 20, 2011 @01:08PM (#37457566) Attached to: Intel Shows RealVNC Embedded In the BIOS

Intel only supports SSH Out of Band Management for entry-level server motherboards.

Comment I work for Kaizer Soze (Score 1) 404

by jorgef on Thursday September 30, 2010 @05:46PM (#33753404) Attached to: My Job Is..

I work for Kaizer Soze.

Mass Effect To Invade the Big Screen 142

Posted by Soulskill on Thursday May 27, 2010 @03:19AM from the seth-green-seems-like-a-lock dept.

UgLyPuNk writes "This could be a good thing or a bad thing: EA has just confirmed that it's making Mass Effect into a movie. The franchise has been acquired by Legendary Pictures, which is best known for its co-productions of The Dark Knight, Clash of the Titans, 300, Watchmen, and, um, The Hangover, as part of a co-financing agreement with Warner Bros."

Comment Poor Bill (Score 1) 295

by jorgef on Sunday November 06, 2005 @09:37AM (#13962411) Attached to: Google Striking Fear into the Corporate Masses

Microsoft, in particular, is pushing hard to catch Google in Internet search. "This is hyper-competition, make no mistake," said Bill Gates, Microsoft's chief executive. "The magic moment will come when our search is demonstrably better than Google's," he said, suggesting that this could happen in a year or so.

Poor Bill, its hard live with fear, you cant use dirty old tricks, keep playing Monopoly at Home little Billy.

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