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Oscar, a three-year old British cat, has joined the rarefied ranks of bionic animals… wired.com

Robotic domination one dance step at a time…

Bangladesh’s Infoladies ride from village to village on bicycles, toting netbooks and mobile phones, and set up infobooths where they use net-gathered info to teach hygiene, help with childbirth, assist with crop problems, and so on… boingboing.net

Japan has hosted the world’s first wedding to be conducted by a robot.The automated creature, known as the I-Fairy, oversaw the wedding of Tomohiro Shibata and Satoko Inoue in the capital, Tokyo.The couple decided to use the robot as they are both connected with Japan’s thriving robotics industry… news.bbc.co.uk

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If we didn’t know any better, we’d think this experimental robot mouth was destined for sex shops. But its mindless bleating isn’t too sexy, unless you’re one of the Japanese researchers who built it… dvice.com

Hospitals, medical schools and health foundations are staking out space in the online community Second Life, in order to train medical and nursing students in clinical skills and to improve hospital efficacy and response to emergencies…wsj.com

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JESS3 / The State of The Internet from Jesse Thomas on Vimeo.

First they get you drunk, then they conquer the world!

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In Digital Nation: Life on the Virtual Frontier, FRONTLINE presents an in-depth exploration of what it means to be human in a 21st-century digital world… boingboing.net

Originally aired February 2,2010,  but can be viewed online.

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