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    Insane Weapons, Robots and Spy Gear from the Paris Military-Police Expo

    Fly Away

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    Image of günter macbeetle, codename: chrystlubitshi günter macbeetle, codename: chrystlubitshi
    11:18 AM

    In reply to Insane Weapons, Robots and Spy Gear from the Paris Military-Police Expo
    pic # two... "good god man, your cocaine is pregnant!!"
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    Image of InsertBullets InsertBullets
    10:27 AM

    In reply to Insane Weapons, Robots and Spy Gear from the Paris Military-Police Expo
    enough of the less lethal weapons I want more than lethal, I want excessive over the top lethal weapons. like the Prawn giant tazer gun that made the guy explode in District 9.
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    Image of yantelope yantelope
    10:21 AM

    In reply to Insane Weapons, Robots and Spy Gear from the Paris Military-Police Expo
    you forgot the new missile. VIVA LA FRANCE!
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    Image of vlatro vlatro
    09:26 AM

    In reply to Insane Weapons, Robots and Spy Gear from the Paris Military-Police Expo
    I love the riotBot. Load it up with armor piercing ammo and turn wars into a cool video game. I'd buy that system in a heartbeat. It'd also be great for hunting, or in it's standard non-lethal configuration, just all-around mischievous fun.

    Hell, an RF toy car, a couple of servos, paintball gun, webcam equipped netbook and arduino... I see a fun project in the works.
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    Image of AmphetamineCrown AmphetamineCrown
    09:25 AM

    In reply to Insane Weapons, Robots and Spy Gear from the Paris Military-Police Expo
    I believe my kitchen needs a pepperball dispenser. Sounds like fun.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_HazEnvy GitEmSteveDave_HazEnvy
    09:17 AM

    In reply to Insane Weapons, Robots and Spy Gear from the Paris Military-Police Expo
    Next BattleModo HAS to be RiotBot vs. BumBot.

    Who will win in Robot Stadium? Who will prevail!
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    Image of Sticks Calhoun Sticks Calhoun
    11:21 AM

    @GitEmSteveDave_CanCommentz: The disappearance of BattleBots from Comedy Central will always haunt me.
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    Image of Bokusatsu_Tenshi Bokusatsu_Tenshi
    11/19/09

    In reply to Fly Away
    Make them shoot lasers and explode, and the audience will... perhaps double.
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    Image of Monty Monty
    11/19/09

    In reply to Fly Away
    Gadgets and technology in general has been employed heavily in theatrical work since, well -- forever, frankly. The use of special effects, lighting, audio, set design, costuming -- they have all had technical aspects made to bring the world of the play to "life" on the stage. Often times the technology and/or gadgets are not obvious to the audience, but in this case the director appears to have used the gadget world itself as part of Oberon's fairy kingdom.

    As a sound designer on King Lear at the University of Oregon's Robinson Theatre production back twenty years ago (yes, I am that old) we used a Macintosh for all of the sound effects tied to our lighting, for example. The art of illusion is often tied directly with gadgets and technology of all types, and that has been true since the day Sheakspeare took the stage.
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    Image of Hiphopopotamus Hiphopopotamus
    11/19/09

    In reply to Fly Away

    The problem with robotic actors is they are prone to sudden and dramatic amnesia.
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    Image of badhatharry badhatharry
    11/19/09

    In reply to Fly Away
    Both attendees look like riveted.
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    Image of Hiphopopotamus Hiphopopotamus
    11/19/09

    @badhatharry: Unintentional puns are the best kind.
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    Image of Mayor McRib Mayor McRib
    11/19/09

    In reply to Fly Away
    What the hell is Manny doing in that photo. "We can fix it together".
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    Image of Nick Nick
    11/19/09

    In reply to Fly Away
    i don't care what you tell me. there is nothing in the world that will convince me that someone in college station knows what a robot is. ever.
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    Image of badhatharry badhatharry
    11/19/09

    @Nick: In college, my department (sound design) was all about automation and trying to do everything we could to get out of sitting in the theater watching the same show night after night when there were plenty of parties and art openings. We didn't have the budget, but we were all about getting robots to do our work.
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    Image of Nick Nick
    11/19/09

    @badhatharry: you know, when robots fail -- monkies serve well.

    #tips
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    Image of badhatharry badhatharry
    11/19/09

    @Nick: No, no they don't. You try to keep them from throwing poop and beating off 135 times a day.
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    Image of Gundem Gundem
    11/18/09

    In reply to Michael Jackson's 3D Body Scans on eBay for $1.5 Million
    why would one need this?

    Simply buy the rights then create your own based on gazillion of pictures and videos on the net.
     Reply
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    Image of Shamoononon: I shave my legs. Shamoononon: I shave my legs.
    11/18/09

    In reply to Michael Jackson's 3D Body Scans on eBay for $1.5 Million
    Ewwwwwww..
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    Shamoononon: I shave my legs. was starred Shamoononon: I shave my legs. was unstarred
    Image of Bokusatsu_Tenshi Bokusatsu_Tenshi
    11/18/09

    In reply to Michael Jackson's 3D Body Scans on eBay for $1.5 Million
    1.5 Million? LOL
    Looks like that businessman is out of business for a long time...
    With less than 10% of that sum people can do a BETTER version of Michael Jackson with or without color maps.

    But I guess when it comes to famous dead people there really are people out there who would buy crap like that...
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    Image of goldfarb goldfarb
    11/18/09

    @Bokusatsu_Tenshi: yeah...try 1%...
    scans like this are just the base - they have to be re-topologized to be usable for anything - NO ONE uses the actual scans for final work.
    oh and what kind of data are we talking about 10K points? 100K? 500K?
    1996 tech wasn't really that great for face scans - nothing like what you can get today...
    no one who does 3D professionally will buy this...
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    Image of madog madog
    11/18/09

    @goldfarb: you mean the crimped pubes and glitter have to be added? What a crock.
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