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...When the training wheels off his bicycle abruptly fell off, the toddler fell to the ground, bust his head on the cement and exclaimed, "Damn, this bike is soooo jenky...
...years ago, the O'Brien family of Dripping Springs, Texas, committed hara-kiri American-style: they unplugged their TV. Dennis O'Brien, a salesman, recalls zoning out on an NBA game when his toddler Colin invaded his Miller-time moment. "He looked at me, then he turned off the TV and said, 'Read me a book!' What was a father...
...genteel doo-wop version from the White Album? but the full-blooded primal-scream arrangement of the single. In its original (pre-Nike-jingle) incarnation, the song had been a watershed, and defined which side of the barricades one stood on. Though Crow and Kravitz were still in the toddler and pre-embryonic stage respectively in 1968, they had absorbed its relevance, and the searing energy of the performance and the significance of the choice was not lost on the audience, which gave it the first - and biggest - standing ovation of the night...
Picture a toddler playing with Legos or Tinker Toys. Without any instruction, she tries putting them together. Finally, after a lot of trial and error, she assembles a little machine that actually does something. Much to her delight, it chugs along the floor like some fanciful arthropod out of A Bug's Life. As the precocious builder's parent, you would be proud--especially if you were told that what she did on her own has long eluded the world's most powerful computers...
...their robot creation isn't ready yet to rule the universe. Even compared with other robots, it's primitive: using only four basic parts--plastic cylinders and ball joints, simple circuitry and small motors, along with rules for friction and gravity--it designed little self-propelled crawlers, like the toddler's insect...