Hasta La Gadget!

“You’ll shoot your eye out kid!” That’s what someone should have told this kid. Northern Arizona University student and programmer Michael Reeves has built a sophisticated pizza box robot – one that uses a camera and facial recognition software to shoot a laser straight beam into your eye. What could possibly go wrong?

He must have wanted one of these for Christmas and never got one. If anyone uses this robot, it will track your eye down, no matter where your face moves, then point a laser beam straight at it. The build quality here is just top notch by the way. Very impressive.

On a side note, this guy really does remind me of Big Head from Silicon Valley, like one Redditor pointed out.

[via reddit via Laughing Squid]

Mayfield Robotics’ Kuri was the surprise hit of CES 2017, but the robot companion isn’t relying solely on cutesy looks to charm users, with a new set of features announced today. Intended to bring domestic robotics into the mainstream, Kuri – which looks like a cross between a Roomba and a Wall-E character – is gaining a new set of … Continue reading

In March, political science professor Robert Kelly and his family became international sensations, thanks to a viral BBC segment during which Kelly’s adorable children interrupted his video interview. In the media frenzy that followed, the world fell in love with his kids, 4-year-old Marion and 8-month-old James.

Now, the Kelly kids are getting their very own show.

On April 17, Hans House Productions released the first episode of “The Adventures of Mina and Jack” ― an animated YouTube series based on Marion and James. The show follows Mina and Jack ― “a mischievous duo who can’t help but get into trouble … and on the news.”

In the first episode of the show, Mina and Jack join their father, who works for the U.N. (or “the un” as Mina calls it), on a trip to North Africa to catch a gold thief. The three-minute video is perfect for anyone looking for more of the spunky girl, adorable baby, frantic mom and nervous father.

In some ways, a show inspired by Marion Kelly seems only natural. In the midst of the family’s moment of fame, Twitter users couldn’t get enough of the pink-bespectacled troublemaker.

One viral tweet called for Marion to form a mystery-solving team with Daliyah Marie Arana, the 4-year-old girl who got to be “librarian for the day” at the Library of Congress after reading more than 1,000 books.

Although “The Adventures of Mina and Jack” focuses on the Kelly kid characters, we’re hoping for a guest appearance from Daliyah in future episodes.

As for Robert Kelly, he’s a fan of the new show. “I thought it was so cute,” he stated in a press release. “My wife and I both laughed. They made me look suitably dorky.”

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If you followed the story in the media at the time, 2005 seemed to be a rough period for “Friends” star Jennifer Aniston. That year, she and Brad Pitt got divorced, putting an end to one of Hollywood’s all-time great power couples.

Aniston’s public break-up provided endless tabloid fodder, and people couldn’t seem to get enough of the salacious rumors surrounding the split. Though chaos appeared to swirl around her, a newly single Aniston appeared on “The Oprah Winfrey Show” just a month before the divorce became final. As Aniston explained back then, she had a spiritual epiphany after a yoga session with a friend of hers.

“We finished and we were sort of sitting there, stretching. And I looked over at her and I said, ‘You know what? I have to say: I’m feeling a feeling I don’t know if I’ve ever actually felt before. And that is that I don’t want to be anywhere other than where I am right now,’” Aniston said. “That means I’m not sitting somewhere dwelling on the past, or I’m not fretting or I’m not obsessing about something in the future. It was a feeling of total peace.” 

This idea of living in the present, she continued, was a consistent theme in the various self-help books people had sent to her. Yet Aniston realized during that yoga session that no books could speed up the process of finding peace. 

“You can read them and you can sort of intellectualize it, but the truth is, you sort of sit there going, ‘Well, how do I do that?’ And you get frustrated,” Aniston said. “Then, one day, you’re sitting there with your friend doing yoga and you go, ‘Oh, I get it!’”

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On Wednesday night, a female political analyst described being dismissed as just another “blonde” when providing her opinion on Fox News. The next morning, another political commentator and a news anchor revealed their own mistreatment at Fox News and said they’d essentially been told that there was no recourse when the perpetrators happened to be Bill O’Reilly or Roger Ailes. 

These are conversations that wouldn’t have taken place on air just 10 months ago, when Ailes ruled Fox News and O’Reilly reigned as the king of cable news. 

But the floodgates began to open once Ailes resigned in disgrace in July after a sexual harassment lawsuit filed against him by former “Fox & Friends” co-host Gretchen Carlson prompted allegations from dozens of women. And more women have been speaking out since O’Reilly exited the building Wednesday following protests and an advertiser exodus ― both in response to a report that sexual harassment settlements had been secretly paid out to several women. Both men have denied the claims against them.

The departures of Fox News’ founder and top-rated star aren’t the end of the story, however. Details continue to seep out about the toxic culture they are said to have helped create and foster.

There are ongoing sexual harassment and racial discrimination lawsuits against Fox News and top executives, including co-president Bill Shine. On-air contributor Julie Roginsky claimed that Shine retaliated against her after she spoke up against Ailes. In addition, there’s a federal probe into whether the Murdoch family-led parent company 21st Century Fox properly notified investors about settlements with female accusers.

If the past 24 hours are any indication, additional revelations are sure to follow. 

CNN anchor Alisyn Camerota, who worked at Fox News for 16 years, said Thursday that there’s a “feeling” among her friends inside the network “that there’s more to come.”

Camerota described a work environment that “was Roger Ailes’ fiefdom” and said “he was the king.”

“And there was harassment,” she said. “And I tried, in my own way, to raise the flag and to talk to people about it. I went to my superiors to talk to them about it. And there was certainly a feeling, ‘This is Roger, what are you going to do, who are you going to go to?’” 

Later on the show, CNN political commentator Margaret Hoover recalled feeling like a “blonde backdrop for O’Reilly’s opinions” when appearing on his Fox News show. She described how the host repeatedly critiqued the appearance of her and other female guests.

“I was never sexually harassed explicitly by Bill O’Reilly,” Hoover said, “But there were moments that were very uncomfortable with him. And I had to navigate a minefield, is what it felt like to me, to make sure I was never in an experience or a situation where I felt vulnerable.”

“There was a very clear message about what was acceptable to appear on air, both from what you said on Fox News and what you wore on Fox News,” she added. 

Kirsten Powers, another Fox News analyst-turned-CNN contributor, recalled O’Reilly getting Hoover’s name wrong when they both appeared on set. 

“I’m sorry, there’s a lot of blondes in this operation. I can’t keep you all straight,’” O’Reilly said, according to Powers. 

O’Reilly, by her account, said “thank you for your blonde-ness” to the two women after the segment. 

Powers said he unsuccessfully sought an apology from O’Reilly through his executive producer and her supervisor before going to Ailes. 

“I was told the same exact thing. There’s nothing we can do,” Ailes said, according to Powers. “It’s Bill, he’s a jerk. Nobody likes him. And then Roger said, ‘You know Bill, he likes to put up dirty pictures and ask pretty girls to talk about them.’ And then he said, ‘What am I going to do? I don’t like him, but he makes so much money, there’s nothing I can do.’”

“So this was the culture, which was Bill was just too big and there’s nothing you can do about it,” Powers added. 

Powers said she didn’t appear again on O’Reilly’s show for several years and didn’t have another problem. 

“The only reason I’m really telling this story, I think, is because Gretchen came out and took on Fox News,” Powers said. “A lot of women just don’t talk about these things because if you make too much trouble your career is over. At least that’s the way it used to be.”

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