Posted 03 November 2006

Front row seats for robo-war

Draw and print furniture
BoingBoing, Wednesday November 1, 2006
http://www.boingboing.net/2006/11/01/draw_and_print_furni.html

"[M]embers of the Swedish design group FRONT use motion capture tech to record the free-handed strokes of their furniture drawing and then a rapid prototyping machine fabs the pieces they've drawn in liquid plastic."

Chairsketch








Launching a new kind of warfare
The Guardian, Thursday October 26, 2006
http://technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,,1930960,00.html

"By 2015, the US Department of Defense plans that one third of its fighting strength will be composed of robots, part of a $127bn (£68bn) project known as Future Combat Systems (FCS), a transformation that is part of the largest technology project in American history."
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