Tag: SOUTHKOREA

Don't expect Tiger Woods to practice this way, but for many South Koreans, hitting the virtual greens is much more practical than playing the real sport. According to a report from CNN, many of the country's 3.5 million golfers opt to play golf simulators instead of the 260 golf courses, which tend to be prohibitively expensive and crowded. In contrast, a round of virtual golf costs somewhere ...

While Kim Jong-il continues to lead North Korea like a hyperactive preschooler whose parents can't find his Ritalin, South Korea is knocking off designer handbags, churning out electronics like nobody's business, and now, according to USA Today, using cloned, drug-sniffing dogs to patrol its airports. Unlike the U.S. (where German Shepherds get to sniff all the drugs), South Korea has put six ...

South Korean telecom firm KTF has just announced a cleaning robot which can be controlled by a 3G cellphone. The robot -- called the CW100 -- was built in collaboration with Microbot, and is a "smart" vacuum (much like a Roomba). The CW100 uses an onboard video camera to send live images of what it's "seeing" to the mobile phone, and the user can then remotely control it using the keypad. The ...

Everybody loves robots. Especially cute types like the wiry, metallic guy above. And even as it prepares for the robot uprising, South Korea can't help but embrace our machine-like friends. Rumor has it that South Korea is preparing to build 'Robot Land,' a $500 million industrial park dedicated to robotics. The complex will house manufacturing facilities, research centers, and exhibition ...

Even with Arnold Schwarzenegger in charge of California, we humans need to smarten up if we're to avoid the doomsday future foretold in movies like 'The Terminator' or 'The Matrix.' With robots on the verge of being able to think and feel on their own (like good ol' Johnny Five from 'Short Circuit'), and humans increasingly getting replaced on the job by robots, a no holds barred battle between ...