How to Live-Blog a Comic Convention with Just a Cell Phone
I’ve been live-blogging San Diego’s annual comic-frenzy for years, and I always have the same problem — schlepping my gear with me. When I cover a live event, I normally lug around a 15″ FruitBook Pro, multi-lens DSLR, WiFi hotspot, and a bunch of other crap. So instead of nerding out over comic books, Lou…
Do Human Expressions Make These Robots Less Creepy—Or More?
A good-looking robot is seriously hard to find. Robots can be pretty, some even handsome, but as soon as they get too realistic they start to creep us out. A new system for helping robots to generate more realistic expressions might go some way to help. Many years ago, roboticists realised that as you morph…
How the Creator of Wonder Woman Also Invented the Lie Detector
We learn to lie around age two or three. By the time we’re adults, we do it a lot-at least once a day, and perhaps more like 2.92 lies in 10 minutes, according to a recent study published in the Journal of Basic and Applied Psychology. It’s no wonder we’ve been chasing after an accurate…
