Matter Anti-Matter
Welcome to Matter Anti-Matter, a site about nerd stuff. By day, I work at Kickstarter.
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The art of Feric Feng, who’s currently creating a game based on his egg-shaped robots.
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Photo reblogged from Warren Ellis' Notebook
Do roombas count as industrial robots?
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I might just have to get this Huck Finn and Robot Jim print. See more goodies here.
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Boilerplate: History’s Mechanical Marvel.
Boilerplate is the creation of graphic artist/writing team Paul Guinan and Anina Bennett, who together have carefully revised history to include their beloved retro-modern steampunk robot.
The book is an ingenious work of historical fiction, styled after a traditional academic history text complete with graphs, maps, and brilliantly doctored photos depicting Boilerplate in a sundry of historically significant moments.
In one chapter, we see Boilerplate marching alongside suffragists in 1913, in the company of such luminaries as Lily Campion and Ida B. Wells.
While Boilerplate’s inclusion into such history is fictional (or as some would say, a hoax), the world Guinan and Bennett have chronicled for their robot’s journey through history is very much real.
You can read more about Boilerplate here (though be forewarned, the book’s site is a bit of a disorderly mess to comb through..). If you want to see the book for yourself, Amazon has it listed for $17.96:
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Michael Jackson’s immortality rating just got a huge boost. The Huffington Post reports:
Michael Jackson had 3D scans made of his body in what may have been a plan to build a virtual reality double of himself
I’m not sure what’s more disturbing—that this story is apparently real, or this video of MJ made from the original 1996 3D scans.
The illustrious owner of MJ’s 3D-self is currently auctioning the scans for $1.5 million on e-bay. Christmas is just around the corner, and nothing says “you’re my special someone” like the digital blueprints for recreating your very own cyborg king of pop. It’s the gift that creepily keeps on giving!
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For everyone who had a long Monday, here’s Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots by The Flaming Lips.
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This should turn out well. As we all know, tiny robots that swim inside your body rarely, if ever, develop sentience, the ability to self-replicate, and an insatiable desire to take over the world. No need to worry.
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Galactic Nullification? Yes, I get that. Accurate Utility? Not so much. I would have gone with ELECTRONIC NETWORKED SOLDIER INTENDED FOR GALACTIC NULLIFICATION AND ATEMPORAL USURY. Diabolical!
