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Six Ton Walking Spider Takes Passengers on Giant Robot Rides

Martin Montesano's giant "Walking Beast" isn't the first robot spider ever made, but it is the only one I can recall that is this enormous and has the ability to take on passengers. His 12,000-pound, 23-foot-long creation was built over the course of three years at an expense of $50,000—and it can carry up to six passengers in its steel belly and two (including the driver) in the head. More »

3:10 PM on Tue Aug 26 2008
By Sean Fallon
11,898 views, 50 comments

Latest by axiomatic: Someone put a RAIL GUN on that thing ASAP! more »

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Cellphones to Further Ruin Airplane Travel


As if flying wasn't miserable enough already, soon you'll have to cope with the cell phone yell up close and personal on airplanes. Starting in December of this year, the US feds will allow onboard satellite uplinks on airplanes, threatening to eliminate that last bastion of chatter-free existence. If you thought that crying, pooping baby kicking the back of your seat from New York to L.A. was bad, now you'll have to cope with the ring tones and yackety-yak of fellow passengers, surrounding you with a vengeance only heretofore seen inside THX-certified theaters equipped with Dolby 7.1. Never mind that 61% of business travelers are against cell phone use on planes, according to a CWT Business Travel Indicator survey. Tough. There's money to be made; get out of the way, peon traveling cattle. So now, you get to pay premium prices to wedge yourself inside an uncomfortable sub-sonic tin can, with about 20% of the oxygen you need and 150% of the noise. Videoconferencing, anybody? More »

5:30 PM on Tue Jan 31 2006
By Charlie White
241 views, 7 comments

Latest by Mike Haney: It's that damned push-to-talk that will send me over the edge. Potential upside: wonder if an EVDO connection will work more »