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How Robots are Born

Monday, February 9th, 2009

Via Ezra, then Matt, I’m reminded of Max Dean and Raffaello D’Andrea’s self-healing chair:

Really though, I find their earlier work, The Table: Childhood, to be the superior piece of autonomous furniture artwork (though less impressive technically).

On a more pragmatic note, Matt seems to have quelled his typical worries over an imminent robot uprising. Instead he [...]

Eric almost does something… blogs about it

Saturday, December 6th, 2008

Two days ago I was mentally preparing to break my month+ of blogging silence with the triumphant announcement that I successful acquired tickets to last Thursday’s Daily Show (with guest Ron Howard!) Alas, the evening was a flop. Despite having reserved/confirmed two tickets, and getting in line well within the specified timeframe, Jessica and I [...]

Eric on wheels, take 2

Sunday, July 8th, 2007

Building on a theme, my pal Dave convinced me to help relive his skateboarding youth for a journalism assignment. Since my youth did not include skateboarding, I joined him on rollerblades. We made two stops, the first was the Hudson River Skate Park. To minimize the embarrassment of being bad at skating, we got there [...]

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