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...Cool Cat Inventor: Philips Research, Eindhoven, the Netherlands Availability: Prototypes for research only To Learn More: www.hitech-projects.com/icat The notion of robot as home companion is nothing new, but iCat adds a human dimension to the job: an expressive face. Tell her to go away, and iCat will look sad. Praise her, and she will beam. Internal microphones can be used to record sounds and assist with speech recognition-iCat is multilingual-and 13 electric motors move her eyes, eyebrows, eyelids, mouth and head to produce the appropriate emotional response. iCat can also connect to the Net and display online...
...have begun using a technique called pigeon flipping: while on patrol, the Marines have noticed flocks of pigeons circling above them, leading them to conclude that supporters of the insurgents have somehow trained the birds to signal when troops are in the area. "If it's a game of cat and mouse," says Corporal Richard Bass, "then who's the mouse...
...give $1,000 to [U.S.-designated terrorist group] Hezbollah, Finkelstein’s favorite organization, if he can prove that the story is true,” he declared. Finkelstein said that objections to his ideas generally do not bother him.“A cat call here or there, I don’t mind,” he said. But his experience at Harvard was an exception, he said. He said he encountered “an element of rudeness and grossness” not sustained on any other campus.The Justice for Palestine organization invited Finkelstein to come...
...says. Always aggressively individual, he felt alienated by the group mentality that he says pervades Japanese society. Instead of following his parents’ wishes and joining the corporate world after graduating from Waseda University in Tokyo, he and his wife opened a jazz club, Peter Cat...
...sometimes they can produce a show that is simply addictive and highly viewable, somehow rising above its own ridiculousness. “Prison Break” fits the latter bill. In the past two episodes alone, Fox River Penitentiary inmates and Fox Network viewers have seen a tabby cat executed, a molested teenager hang himself, Secret Service operatives gun down a pair of suburban step-parents, a guard hump a secretary in the break room (to table-shaking effect), and a mobster get stabbed in the eye with a shattered light bulb. On Monday night, in a particularly laughable scene...