It could be a combination of 19th-century mechanics, 21st-century technology — and a 20th-century horror movie.
A Maryland company under contract to the Pentagon is working on a steam-powered robot that would fuel itself by gobbling up whatever organic material it can find — grass, wood, old furniture, even dead bodies.
Robotic Technology Inc.’s Energetically Autonomous Tactical Robot — that’s right, “EATR” — “can find, ingest, and extract energy from biomass in the environment (and other organically-based energy sources), as well as use conventional and alternative fuels (such as gasoline, heavy fuel, kerosene, diesel, propane, coal, cooking oil, and solar) when suitable,” reads the company’s Web site.
That “biomass” and “other organically-based energy sources” wouldn’t necessarily be limited to plant material — animal and human corpses contain plenty of energy, and they’d be plentiful in a war zone.
EATR will be powered by the Waste Heat Engine developed by Cyclone Power Technology of Pompano Beach, Fla., which uses an “external combustion chamber” burning up fuel to heat up water in a closed loop, generating electricity.
The advantages to the military are that the robot would be extremely flexible in fuel sources and could roam on its own for months, even years, without having to be refueled or serviced.
Upon the EATR platform, the Pentagon could build all sorts of things — a transport, an ambulance, a communications center, even a mobile gunship.
In press materials, Robotic Technology presents EATR as an essentially benign artificial creature that fills its belly through “foraging,” despite the obvious military purpose.
Via Foxnews.com. No. This doesn’t worry me at all! Man eating robots are the way of the future!
…take pretending to be in a rock band too far.
Edit: And thanks, Boone, for finding this one, too.

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Myfoxatlanta.com recently posted a list on Friday of “the top acronyms commonly used on the Internet and in text messages” , stuff parents should be on the lookout for. Sounds like a good article to publish, yeah? Keeping the older generation in the know is good thing, right?
Well, there seems to be a problem. The vast majority of these acronyms appear to be total bs. Who asks their FB to FMLTWIA IF/IB? Don’t know what the means? Don’t worry. Neither does almost every other person on the internet. This article was at least good for a laugh on NeoGAF.
DUM?
Top 50 Internet Acronyms Parents Need to Know:
1. 8 – Oral sex
2. 1337 – Elite
3. 143 – I love you
4. 182 – I hate you
5. 459 – I love you
6. 1174 – Nude club
7. 420 – Marijuana
8. ADR – Address
9. ASL – Age/Sex/Location
10. banana – Penis
11. CD9 – Code 9 – it means parents are around
12. DUM – Do You Masturbate?
13. DUSL – Do You Scream Loud?
14. FB – F Buddy
15. FMLTWIA – F Me Like The Whore I Am
16. FOL – Fond of Leather
17. GNOC – Get Naked On Cam
18. GYPO – Get Your Pants Off
19. IAYM – I Am Your Master
20. IF/IB – In the Front -or- In the Back
21. IIT – Is It Tight?
22. ILF/MD – I Love Female/Male Dominance
23. IMEZRU – I Am Easy, Are You?
24. IWSN – I Want Sex Now
25. J/O – Jerking Off
26. KFY -or- K4Y – Kiss For You
27. kitty – Vagina
28. KPC – Keeping Parents Clueless
29. LMIRL – Let’s Meet In Real Life
30. MOOS – Member Of The Opposite Sex
31. MOSS – Members Of The Same Sex
32. MorF – Male or Female
33. MOS – Mom Over Shoulder
34. MPFB – My Personal F Buddy
35. NALOPKT – Not A Lot Of People Know That
36. NIFOC – Nude In Front Of The Computer
37. NMU – Not Much, You?
38. P911 – Parent Alert
39. PAL – Parents Are Listening
40. PAW – Parents Are Watching
41. PIR – Parent In Room
42. POS – Parent Over Shoulder -or- Piece Of Sh
43. PRON – Porn
44. Q2C – Quick To Cum
45. RU/18 – Are You Over 18?
46. RUH – Are You Horny?
47. S2R – Send To Receive
48. SorG – Straight or Gay
49. TDTM – Talk Dirty To Me
50. WYCM – Will You Call Me?
via MyFoxAtlanta.com
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