The Core

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzjkBwZtxp4&feature=player_embedded#!

I hadn't seen this one.  Toyota has an "Asimo" robot that plays a pretty good violin.  Wow.

One step closer to skynet, using the Xbox 360 Kinect.

Quadrotor Autonomous Flight and Obstacle Avoidance with Kinect Sensor:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWmVrfjDCyw

flying through the thrown hoop - that is pretty impressive, and a little scary too

'Deep Thought' anyone?  : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Thought_(The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy)

Please let it get asked for the "Ultimate Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, The Universe, and Everything" - I just know they will have 'easter egged' it with the answer 42

>42

Certainly they've done *that*...I mean..that's just blatenly obvious!

Beijing to track citizens with their cell phones
http://thenextweb.com/asia/2011/03/03/beijing-to-track-citizens-with-their-cell-phones/

Yeah, I bet it's only for "traffic management"...

There have been some high-profile murder cases here in the US where people have been proven to be in the location of the crime by cell-phone records.  There was also a case where a man was convicted partially because he removed the battery from his cell-phone before he drove off to dump the body.  The take away is -- if you are going to kill someone leave your cell phone at home.

He should ave looked where he was going.

>we'll just incorporate into ourselves.

I was just talking to my wife about this.  I'm pretty sure that in a couple generations there's going to be neural connectivity to whatever the internet is like by then and the ability to lob off store and retrieve data from some type of brain-to-hardware direct interface.  All us old-timers are going to think the kids are nuts for having computer chips in their heads, but they will wonder how we ever got by without them.  We'll be talking about the Borg, and they'll be like whatever, I could speak 50 languages and do a ten million calculations a second.