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| 23rd and Crystal Drive, Arlington, VA, 22202 |
Carnegie Mellon has taught its robotic snake to climb trees, though one hopes it won’t start offering your spouse apples. “Uncle Sam” (presumably named for its red, white, and blue markings) is a snake robot built from modular pieces. The latest in a line of ‘modsnakes’ from Carnegie Mellon’s Biorobotics Lab, Uncle Sam can move in a variety of different ways including rolling, wiggling, and side-winding. It can also wrap itself around a pole and climb vertically, which comes in handy when scaling a tree. You have to watch this thing in action. There is something incredibly life-like, and eerie, about the way it scales the tree outdoors and then looks around with its camera ‘eye’. Projects like Uncle Sam show how life-mimicking machines could revolutionize robotics in the near future.
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| Credit Card reader for bike rentals in Crystal City, looks like a bigger version of a "Blade Runner" parking meter. |
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| An eery view of the "Blade Runner" parking meter style Capital Bikeshare bike racks and rental kiosk in Crystal City. |
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| Closeup of a new Capital Bikeshare rack in Crystal City. |
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| From Tom Southwell's segment in the Blade Runner "Enhancement Archive" BluRay Disk: "Fabrication; Signs of the Times: Graphic Design". |
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| Blade Runner | parking meter. |
Correction: In the original post, I misquoted the notation on the Blade Runner decals, including parking meters, as "Made With Union Labor in the Free City". It was "Union Printed in The New City", according to Tom Southwell in the Blade Runner "Enhancement Archive: Fabrication; Signs of the Times: Graphic Design". |
| These are near the Crystal City METRO. |
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| These are one block (two address blocks) away at 20th and Bell, Arlington, VA, 22202. |
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| 20th and Crystal Drive, Arlington, VA, 22202. |
Saw the original release and have the disk set (BluRay stays by the TV, the regular DVD is in my laptop). I am not one of those Avatar fans who is going to buy a 3D Television just to watch this movie when those disks come out (are they out yet?). I plan on seeing the re-release of Avatar this weekend, hopefully in 3D. Who is with me? Anybody planning on seeing it for the first time? 
The buzz is there is going to be more about Tsu'tey Death.
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I am surely not the first to notice. Unable to verify through google searches. The replicants in "Blade Runner" never wear hats to protect themselves from the constantly falling acid rain in Los Angeles. More proof that Deckard is a replicant.
Update 11:52AM USA Eastern Time: Beginning research with 1982 international cut, AKA "Criterion Edition".
