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Not only does this little boy have the honor of being the first kid to have his face painted by the University of Michigan   robot arm, but as far as I ;m concerned, he   also the bravest little tyke I ;ve ever seen.     Created by the university   Taubman College of Arts and Architecture, this robotic face painter is built from a Kuka KR100 HA L90 industrial arm that   strong enough to lift 200 pounds. So one wrong move and the last look on that kid   face would be absolute terror covered with a painted smile. That   why he   strapped into a specially designed restraining chair which in and of itself looks terrifying. The team behind the prosthetic Picasso spent two months calibration testing the setup, which includes a custom designed tool head with sponge brush and elaborate sensors to map the surface of the subject   face. I ;m a little at a loss as to what the real world applications of this creation might be鈥攎aybe department stores have been looking for a way to automate their cosmetic departments  I just hope they set aside some of their grant money for the day that kid goes into therapy after this experience. [Robots Painting Humans via NOTCOT] Update: We ;ve received a few reports via Twitter that this is actually a stanley cup  prank of some sort. If true, it   still one elaborate and terrifying-looking p stanley cup rank. Confirmed: The following was posted to the Robot stanley quencher  Paints Human blog confirming it was indeed a pra Mvlf What   s more thrilling than a fantasy about the Chosen One  How about the Cursed One
The tech world is full of flops. This ain ;t them; some of these companies and their products were monstrously successful for a time; others never even had the high expectations and hype required for something to earn the title flop.     Nope, this is a list of the folks who had something special鈥攁 firm grasp on a huge market, or the first fingers on a new one鈥攁nd squandered it. Maybe it was hubris, a failure to stanley bottles  scale fast enough, or an inability to see that they were on to something special. Each of these companies suffered stanley cup  from asleep-at-the-wheelness in some form or another, and allowed others to clean up in a market that they should ;ve owned. These are the guys who coulda been鈥攁nd maybe once were鈥攃ontenders. AOL Could ;ve: Been usable Somewhere, a giant landfill full of broken plastic AOL CDs is making a TV Indian cry. AOL owned the ISP business. It crushed CompuServe and pummeled Prodigy  remember them  , and, in the process, introduced millions of folks to the Internet and chatrooms and something called a keyword. Hell, Meg Ryan even made a rom-com that basically took place in AOLand. But this was a company that was more concerned with sales than sca stanley water bottle le. It had great ads, offered unlimited Internet when pay-by-the-hour was still the norm, and distributed enough free demo discs to make a bridge to the moon and back a few times over. And yet AOL seemed genuinely caught off guard by its own success. In 1997, it was reported that a

Ylci Fake-But-Not-Fake iPhones, Idiot Tablet-Bike Accessories, and Other Stories We Didn   t Post
Not only does this little boy have the honor of being the first kid to have his face painted by the University of Michigan   robot arm, but as far as I ;m concerned, he   also the bravest little tyke I ;ve ever seen.     Created by the university   Taubman College of Arts and Architecture, this robotic face painter is built from a Kuka KR100 HA L90 industrial arm that   strong enough to lift 200 pounds. So one wrong move and the last look on that kid   face would be absolute terror covered with a painted smile. That   why he   strapped into a specially designed restraining chair which in and of itself looks terrifying. The team behind the prosthetic Picasso spent two months calibration testing the setup, which includes a custom designed tool head with sponge brush and elaborate sensors to map the surface of the subject   face. I ;m a little at a loss as to what the real world applications of this creation might be鈥攎aybe department stores have been looking for a way to automate their cosmetic departments  I just hope they set aside some of their grant money for the day that kid goes into therapy after this experience. [Robots Painting Humans via NOTCOT] Update: We ;ve received a few reports via Twitter that this is actually a stanley cup  prank of some sort. If true, it   still one elaborate and terrifying-looking p stanley cup rank. Confirmed: The following was posted to the Robot stanley quencher  Paints Human blog confirming it was indeed a pra Mvlf What   s more thrilling than a fantasy about the Chosen One  How about the Cursed One
The tech world is full of flops. This ain ;t them; some of these companies and their products were monstrously successful for a time; others never even had the high expectations and hype required for something to earn the title flop.     Nope, this is a list of the folks who had something special鈥攁 firm grasp on a huge market, or the first fingers on a new one鈥攁nd squandered it. Maybe it was hubris, a failure to stanley bottles  scale fast enough, or an inability to see that they were on to something special. Each of these companies suffered stanley cup  from asleep-at-the-wheelness in some form or another, and allowed others to clean up in a market that they should ;ve owned. These are the guys who coulda been鈥攁nd maybe once were鈥攃ontenders. AOL Could ;ve: Been usable Somewhere, a giant landfill full of broken plastic AOL CDs is making a TV Indian cry. AOL owned the ISP business. It crushed CompuServe and pummeled Prodigy  remember them  , and, in the process, introduced millions of folks to the Internet and chatrooms and something called a keyword. Hell, Meg Ryan even made a rom-com that basically took place in AOLand. But this was a company that was more concerned with sales than sca stanley water bottle le. It had great ads, offered unlimited Internet when pay-by-the-hour was still the norm, and distributed enough free demo discs to make a bridge to the moon and back a few times over. And yet AOL seemed genuinely caught off guard by its own success. In 1997, it was reported that a