Willies & Wonder

I'm a member of the Star Wars generation. I am male. Ergo, I think robots (AKA 'Droids') are really cool.

My daughter asked to search the Web for a furry and "real" dog robot. Only 3 months left until her birthday, you can't leave this kind of thing until the last minute you know. Info and video about "Big Dog" came up in our results.

My daughter waited quite patiently while daddy watched this video and muttered "oh, wow" again and again. Robotics researchers have long been modeling their creations on examples from the animal kingdom, but this is the first time I've seen something that behaved close enough to a living thing to creep me out a little.

While We're Playing With Color...

A nifty color-scheme generator that uses good old-fashioned color science. Tool compliments of wellstyled.com.