The weirdest tech stories of 2014 – Part 1
In 2014 plenty of technology weirdness cycled through the “odd
news” section of the mainstream media outlets. If you love reading about weird
tech news, take a look at the oddest tech stories of 2014, from hipster AI chefs and hitchhiking robots to 3D printers being hacked into tattoo machines!
IBM Cognitive
Cooking Food Truck
3D Printer Tattoo Machine
This may be the scariest tech story of the year! In April this year a group of psychotic French design students hacked a commercial 3D-printing machine and added – an actual tattoo gun! Check out the video here and you’ll see that the machine pretty much works how you think it might, a young (insane) person volunteers and sticks his arm into the tattoo machine, whereupon his skin is inked automatically by the computer controlled needle.
This may be the scariest tech story of the year! In April this year a group of psychotic French design students hacked a commercial 3D-printing machine and added – an actual tattoo gun! Check out the video here and you’ll see that the machine pretty much works how you think it might, a young (insane) person volunteers and sticks his arm into the tattoo machine, whereupon his skin is inked automatically by the computer controlled needle.
Hitchhiking Robot
In July researchers from Canadian universities let hitchBOT loose onto the highways of the Great White North, where the bot actually traveled from Halifax, Nova Scotia to Victoria, British Columbia – hitchhiking the entire way! The project was part of a larger research study about the utility of social robots and the psychology of human kindness. hitchBOT used its LED-screen face to ask for rides and made the trip in 21 days, relying only on the kindness of strangers.
In July researchers from Canadian universities let hitchBOT loose onto the highways of the Great White North, where the bot actually traveled from Halifax, Nova Scotia to Victoria, British Columbia – hitchhiking the entire way! The project was part of a larger research study about the utility of social robots and the psychology of human kindness. hitchBOT used its LED-screen face to ask for rides and made the trip in 21 days, relying only on the kindness of strangers.
City of Robot Cars
Back in May this year an odd little news story about a fake city popped up in Southern Michigan. It was designed by engineers and robotics researchers at the University of Michigan and the 32-acre simulated city is intended to be the home for hundreds of autonomous robots. Well, sort of, The Mobility Transformation Facility is a test site for the future of automated vehicles and self-driving cars and trucks! The little metropolis will eventually have a four-lane freeway, merge lanes, stoplights, a railroad crossing and even mechanical bicyclists and pedestrians!
Back in May this year an odd little news story about a fake city popped up in Southern Michigan. It was designed by engineers and robotics researchers at the University of Michigan and the 32-acre simulated city is intended to be the home for hundreds of autonomous robots. Well, sort of, The Mobility Transformation Facility is a test site for the future of automated vehicles and self-driving cars and trucks! The little metropolis will eventually have a four-lane freeway, merge lanes, stoplights, a railroad crossing and even mechanical bicyclists and pedestrians!
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Written By: Christine Romans
Copy Writer at The Computer Guyz Cape Town
Copy Writer at The Computer Guyz Cape Town
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