Today...another gloomy raining morning that greeted me when I woke up. Great...a straight 7 rainy days to ease the incoming heat and the day will go by lazy and lethargic. No lessons on the schedule today so I will just go to "work" and do some productive online "work" and get paid at the end of the month.
So with the new Dynasty Warrior Strike Force in my PSP, I can't help but want to play game all day long. Hmmm that wasn't suppose to be here. Ok ok...Mum and Dad just flew off late last night to Europe and I really hope they enjoy themselves since this is the first time they are putting their SG foot all the way across the continents. Me...I only want them to be happy and come back with lots of pictures because I will be going to Nara in 2 weeks time and then back to SG in the 3Q and then to Canada in Dec. That all aside...
Found a 2 month old news online to share in case you didn't know about it, The Ultimate Otakus' Obsession (TUOO). While there is all the hype about the not-so-new X-men movie, Spiderman 4 and Transformers 2, I am going to isolate Superheroes and talk a bit about robots here. While we, (yes that's including me the OTAKU as well) grew up on a healthy dosage of futuristic mechas from planes and vehicles to robots, from Gundams to Valkyries, from various weird polygonal and menacing looking heaps and chunks of metal from the future, those were just what we or the creators wanted to imagine. These were uber cool with lasers and beams, missiles and boosters and wreaking havoc everywhere. That can't be reality for Man's sake so the more subtle side of us brought out Aibo the cute Sony Dog and Nismo the Honda robot. Yes these were indeed very real robots in real life but they all lack a single element...that is to be the very least bit Human like we are all so used to.
Then sometime back in March 2009, the Japanese "Einstien(s)" at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology threw out a new level of robotics. Enter HRP-4C, a realistic Japanese Girl Fashion Robot with an ass plate carved out from a used StormTrooper costume (Yeah right!). Digg the pics below but if you can shelved out at least USD$200,000, this babe ain't coming anywhere near your home. I do hope they have online firmware updates to make her do the chores...
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