Speckyboy Design Magazine - Web Design, Development and Graphic Design Resources. 10 Tech Concepts You Need to Know for 2010. 1.
Anthropomimetic Machines No matter how closely a robot resembles a human on the outside, if you crack it open, the jumble of wires is unlikely to bear much resemblance to our insides. A group of European researchers aims to bridge that gap--its robot prototype is anthropomimetic, meaning it mimics the human form. There's a skeleton made of thermoplastic polymer, actuators that correspond to each muscle and kiteline as tendons.
Guides. The Ars System Guide: September 2010 Edition. After a long hiatus, the Ars Technica System Guide finally returns.
The main three-box System Guide leads off the return, with the traditional Budget Box, Hot Rod, and God Box addressing three different price points in the market. The main System Guide's boxes are general-purpose systems with a strong gaming focus, which means you won't find any office boxes or bargain-basement machines here. The low end of the scale, the Budget Box, is still a formidable gaming machine despite its reasonable price tag ($600-$800). The Hot Rod represents what we think is a reasonable higher-end general-purpose computer that packs plenty of gaming performance, although we've adjusted the price tag down $200 from the traditional price, into the $1200-1400 range, to reflect upon the fact that building a nice machine with a high-end video card has gotten quite a bit more affordable.