obituary for spirit rover

I've got an article up at Popular Mechanics Online lamenting the recent (sort of) death of the Spirit rover that's been trundling around Mars for over half a decade. I modeled the piece directly on the obituaries featured in the New York Times, so it was kind of fun. Sad, sad fun. Adios, Spirit.

Click here to read the article.

Popular Mechanics -- Top 10 Non-Inventions

I wrote another fun article for Popular Mechanics.

Click here to read about the top ten inventions that we haven't got yet (minus all the usual crap you'd expect from Star Trek, Star Wars, or the Future Past).

Click here to listen to a podcast about it!

haptics for popular mechanics

I wrote a new article for Popular Mechanics. It's all about haptics -- the science of touch!

Doesn't this guy look excited to be utilizing next-generation haptics technology? 

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Read the article online and catch haptics fever for yourself.

My Kanye West-esque Critique of Transformers for Wired Magazine

Transformers don't care about people -- any kind of people. I wrote a quick article for Wired about why Transformers rock because they don't want to either be people or kill people. They've got their own damn problems.

Of course, I saw the latest movie preview today and it's all about how some Transformers want to "protect" humans and some want to "destroy" humans. That's what cracks me up about humans -- it's always all about us... But it's a movie, so what are you going to do?

Popular Mechanics: Top 5 Robots that Own YOU

I found the top robots who can physically and/or mentally humiliate human beings. The sad thing was -- it wasn't that hard to find 'em.

Link to the Top Five Angry Robots.

New Gig for Popular Mechanics Online

I scored a new writing job for popular mechanics online -- a bi-weekly column about robots and how totally sweet and awful they are. My first column went up today and I'll have more every other week from now on.

Click to read about my life in a robot ecosystem.