Skynet has seen our movies and our chronicles and has formulated new plans to rid the Earth of the human disease. Be warned, Skynet is still a threat to our future. If we’re not careful, Judgment Day will come.
Reader Joshua Zusmer sent this terrifying news that Skynet has already been launched into Low Earth Orbit!
The U.K.’s Skynet 5C satellite was launched into space from Kourou spaceport in French Guiana and will help U.K. military forces communicate around the world. Skynet 5C joins 5A and 5B which are already in use relaying secure communications for U.K. forces in Iraq and Afghanistan. 5C will relay real-time data back to command centers.
Well shit.
You’ve essentially handed over your military to a computer that’s destined to end us.
Thanks for keeping an eye on that tricksy Skynet, Joshua.
AZM regular Greg Stasiewicz discovered Skynet’s latest plot to learn our ways and replace us.
This is the Mask of Emotion from students at the Digital Media Design Department at Hongik University in Korea. Sooo creepy. The mask allows the wearer to use LED emoticons instead of their face to express feelings and emotions and possibly carry on conversations without actually saying anything.
But you fail, Skynet! You see, no emoticon can properly capture the people’s eyebrow to express incredulity when sucka jabronis act a fool! Oh wait. That would look like (-.^)
Curse you, Skynet! Trixy and false with your emoticon power!
My brother, Mat, sent me this website on Temporal Anomalies in Time Travel Movies which explains how the timeline isn’t completely fubar every time Skynet sends a tinker toy back in time to kill the Connors. It’s quite complicated and very thorough, but if I tried to par it down to a sentence, basically anytime anyone jumps back in time, they start a new timeline. This first part analyzes the first two films. The follow up analyzes the time anomalies of the third movie. I’d love to see how the television series fits into this reasoning.
It’s quite thorough so make sure you give yourself some time to go through the site. Also, give yourself plenty of physical space around you for when your brains start to ooze out of your nose, you’ll want something comfortable close by to brace your fall when you collapse in a quivering puddle of nerd goo.
Thanks Mat. Your brother is no officially brain dead.
The ever dishy Bryce Dallas Howard, seen here giving the sexy eye to one friendly neighborhood Pete Parker, will replace Charlotte Gainsbourg in Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins due to a previous commitment for Gainsbourg. She will play Kate Connor, badass wife of John Connor played by Christian Bale. This film is so full of geek bait! Crunchy pants for all!
Thanks to Claire Danes, Kate Connor was a bright spot in the otherwise lack luster T3. Gainsbourg would have been a great choice if it worked out. I saw her in Science of Sleep and she was quite good. But I think Howard will be brilliant. She was the highlight for me of Spidey 3 and I’d love to see her do more comic and sci fi work.
First, monkeys learned to pilot robot legs with their minds. Now, monkeys are learning how to feed themselves with robotic arms controlled by their minds. Tiny probes are inserted into the monkey’s brain meats which monitor electrical signals. Software interprets the signals and translates them into the mechanical movements of the arm.
You see how tricksy Skynet is? Monkey needs to eat, but monkey is strapped into a chair. So monkey must use brain meats to move robotic arm secretly allowing Skynet to unlock the secrets of monkey’s brain! Monkey’s brain is pretty close to our brain. You see? Tricksy Skynet.
Dr. Andrew Schwartz, lead researcher at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, hopes this break through will lead to better treatment of brain disorders.
We are beginning to understand how the brain works using brain-machine interface technology.
The more we understand about the brain, the better we’ll be able to treat a wide range of brain disorders, everything from Parkinson’s disease and paralysis to, eventually, Alzheimer’s disease and perhaps even mental illness.
There’s no denying the vast potential of this technology. Besides the obvious benefit to victims of paralysis or other physical handicaps, imagine controlling other electronic devices with your brain impulses. You could eliminate the keyboard and mouse interface and control your computer completely hands free. No carpel tunnel! You could turn on and off all sorts of electronic devices throughout your home without lifting a finger. It would almost be like virtual telekinesis. But of course, we all know the danger.
If it takes this freaking long for Skynet to learn how to just stir some eggs in a bowl, there may yet be hope for the human race. Still, it is pretty cool to see it actually learn. When it finally learns how to stir without hitting the sides of the bowl even when the guy was moving the bowl around, that was pretty impressive. As these robots get more sophisticated, you can almost imagine complex surgical procedures done by robots who can anticipate problems without human intervention. Until then, Skynet will have to start with the basics. If it can’t feed us omelets, it can’t really infiltrate and take over.
Thanks to reader Tyler Anderson for uncovering this latest bit of Skynet’s deceit.
Asimo conducts the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Asimo is no Leopold, but then again few human conductors have ever matched Stokowski’s might. As you can imagine, Asimo is pretty good at keeping a steady 4/4 time. But it gets a little wonky when it tries to slow down. Still, very impressive performance.
Well played, Skynet, sneaking your operative into Detroit. As if we wouldn’t notice!
Skynet must have inside agents working at Honda. They’ve developed the motorized Walking Assist Device, a motorized walker that you wear like a belt. The 6 lb. device senses how much aid the wearer will need and power assists the user’s stride to make walking easier. Honda believes this device will give greater mobility to the elderly.
This is how it starts, people. Oh sure, it’s only a cute little belt with a two hour lithium-ion battery charge. Next it’s going to be full robotic legs to do the walking for you. Hell, why even bother walking when a robotic assistant can fetch what you need.
Skynet, robotizing our elderly obsolete one limb at a time.
No longer content to wait for the human race to develop New Type abilities, Researches at Skynet front Osaka University are developing a real life Psycommu System (Amuro pilots the RX-93 Nu Gundam with the Psycommu System) that controls robotic body parts through the power of the mind. Researches are hoping to enlist the aid of patients already scheduled for brain surgery to place electrodes on their brain meats to record the electric activity associated with moving their limbs. They hope to use that data to help them create an interface that would allow patients to control robotic limbs in real-time with their brain meats.
Well played, Skynet. By pretending this research is intended to help the injured and elderly, you have free reign to test the limits of our brain meats. Pretty clever.
Powered armor is the only weapon we’ll have against the armies of pissed off robots SkyNet will launch at us from Japan when they’re tired of taking care of old people. Fortunately, the U.S. Army has contracted robotics firm Sarcos to develop the XOS exoskeleton. The XOS is made of lightweight aluminium and matches human movement with enhanced power and endurance.
The demo videos are a bit lame. I mean, who really cares if you can punch a speed bag when a Hunter Killer is decorating the walls with your guts, but I guess you have to start somewhere. I’m surprised the guy in the suit doesn’t haul off and smack those two jerks who keep stealing his ammo cases.
Right now the biggest stumbling block is coming up with a mobile power supply that can power the suit for extended periods of time. The U.S. military plans to take delivery of XOS early next year with intent of making a combat ready powered armor within eight years. 2016 is nine years before SkyNet takes over Japan. We’ll be ready for you, you overgrown tin can!
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