Kinect-Enabled Rescue 'Bot Could Help Scan for Earthquake Survivors
With rescue workers continuing to search for survivors among the rubble from last week's devastating earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand, a group of engineers from the U.K. have constructed a robot that could make their jobs a little easier -- thanks to Microsoft's Xbox Kinect. The Kinect's motion-detection sensors can instantly model the robot's surroundings and scan them for survivors, ...
Have you all been watching 'Work of Art,' Bravo's latest horrible venture into competitive reality programming? The show -- which pits artists of varying skill, experience and taste against one another for a solo show at the Brooklyn Museum -- asked the contestants this week to make an artwork based on their experience visiting an Audi showroom. (We're just going to gloss over how ridiculous that ...








