hearts and robots

the perfect woman: "I provide for you but don't feel"

Robot for hire!

A japanese company is hiring out a number of 113cm-tall robots that can do a number of tasks, from giving directions or handing out balloons.

"Just give it electricity, and a robot can work for long hours, even doing repetitive work, and you don't have to worry about labour laws."

In other news, scientists (there they go again) have isolated a master heart stem cell in mice that give rise to cardiac muscle cells, smooth muscle lining the aorta, and endothelial cells that form coronary blood vessels.

Now all I need is for someone to develop a robot heart that won't get tired, never complain, keep me at optimum performance levels and never, ever break.

YouTube vs. Puppies

Cute genetically modified Golden Retrievers...or Pumpking Attack? You make the call

Check out this headline from today's CBC news online:

Time names YouTube 'Invention of the Year'

Ahh, where to begin? First of all, YouTube beat out a vaccine that prevents a cancer-causing sexually transmitted disease and a t-shirt that simulates a hug.

Buh? Okay, great, I understand the hugging t-shirt (what's next, panties that simulate a penis?), but seriously, people. Is our need for instant entertainment, rife legal, content, and selective exposure issues, greater than health? Is it? I don't really have an answer. Yes, YouTube is a great idea. But my whole problem with this whole internet networking, DIY cyber media thing is that maybe we are rolling along with it so quickly that we don't realize the impact it is having on actual social interaction.

By the way, last year's winner was a cloned puppy.