I found this creepy article while looking through the Komando blog which tells us about this group of Japanese researchers from Yamagata University who are developing a robot to keep you company....sort of. The "robot" consists of a wearable miniature humanoid in a controlling framework that sits on your shoulder. Creepy enough, but creepier still it can be remotely operated by your friends from anywhere, you know, like one of them good angel/devil bad angel/devil scenarios.....ick! Oh and I can just see the problems....I have five other brothers who would just LOVE to take control of this thing while I was trying to have a conversation or some sort....I know, because it is the same thing I would do....I know ASL see.... the possibilities are endless.... Nope, not going to give em the chance.....
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Hmm. I still prefer Wiki. For those that do not remember, it was a small robot in a belt pouch of Jason on the Saturday morning show Jason Of Star Command. Yeah, the same show where they didn't need space suits thanks to belt operated magnetic field generation.
I'll take my little wiki over this any day.
But hey, here's step one on the way to my wiki. And before I get yelled at, yes I do remember the proper designation. It was W1K1.
I'm an old geek here.
Ha! I had my fingers on the keys and you got me first! OLD GEEK!!??? VACUUM TUBES here...got my class 2 fcc (fancy toilet paper now) and the computer I played with in high school was as big as a doorway and old dec88 as I remember... got my first computer (I mean REAL not a vic 20 or the texas instrument but some thing with a whopping 128k of memory! Tandy 1000ex. Took that baby to 640k quick as I could but that cost almost 200!) in '85! Started my first bbs a couple of years later, which lasted 10 years...dual modems, dual cd-roms, 2 lines in all on an 8bit bus mind you - it was easier when we moved up to a 16bit 286 but omg how we had to rig dual modems and cds into that bus! those days the boards had their own bios and hacking that was weeeeeeerird.....boy howdy I was in geek paradise!
I may be mistaken here, but I believe the first email, or I guess text message is more accurate was first sent comp to comp by ham radio operators wasn't it? They wired the old comp systems into their ham radios. I saw one of those setups years ago. What a mess that was, but it worked. Wires attached to boards hanging everywhere. Looked like someone threw a hand grenade into the shuttle cockpit, but dang if it didn't work.
Radio operators yes, maybe not Hams though. Don't get me wrong, they used to be great innovators, always first to really see the use and then implementing arcane tech. First of the greatest DIYers and that is what drew me back into the fold in a limited sort of way. I got into amateur radio in the seventies but the groups were to tight and just getting started really was a commitment of time and energy. I didn't get back until the mid 90s when you could do packet switching with a simple piece of equipment a radio and a computer. The WEB came into being right around the same time so once again ham radio was pushed back into the fringe. But the diy spirit still is there if you can find it. I love to repurpose, hardware, I still can't bring myself to call it hacking...know what I mean... oh well...drifted off again did I not?
ok, 73s N1QAW
nope, the podcast's email is a gmail account because I am lazy. beammeuppodcast@gmail.com I could have mangled it I suppose, I often do during the show...to many Ps and Ms lol but that reflects the only beam me up we could get for a domain so it goes.
try that.
paul
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