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What Could it Be???

12/18/2011 5:52 PM

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12/18/2011 6:03 PM

Terminator's pet?

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12/18/2011 6:12 PM

That's what's behind the McDonald's drive-up sign.

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12/18/2011 6:21 PM

The new Samsung garden weeding and watering system. It keeps you garden green and pretty while intimidating your neighbor's pet.

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12/18/2011 6:54 PM

It sees in light and dark, it ranges, and it shoots - but does that say Samsung?

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12/18/2011 6:57 PM

It sure has a lot of cameras. Maybe the one that spots traffic crimes, like people running red lights.

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12/18/2011 7:24 PM

High speed motion camera?

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12/18/2011 9:11 PM

Skynet lives!
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12/18/2011 10:05 PM

http://spectrum.ieee.org/robotics/military-robots/a-robotic-sentry-for-koreas-demilitarized-zone.

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12/18/2011 11:09 PM

Yes the war of the robots has begun....there are more deployed already than most people are aware of...

http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/news/1873/automated-killer-robots-threat-humanity

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12/19/2011 12:34 PM

Hunter Killer Robots...

http://realitypod.com/2009/09/pentagon-exploring-robot-killers-that-can-fire-on-their-own/

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12/19/2011 12:37 PM

Now THAT'S SkyNet!!!
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12/20/2011 8:47 AM

OH THAT'S Great!! A Hunter Killer robot that can read your mind....

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/12/20/mind-reading-machines-on-their-way-ibm-predicts/

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12/19/2011 12:40 PM

A robot that has gained control of it's own power source, will become sentient...

http://www.scificool.com/secret-conference-discusses-the-dangers-of-autonomous-robot-killers/

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12/19/2011 12:47 PM

it's its
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12/19/2011 1:14 PM

HOLY CRAP!!!!

http://languagemagazine.com/?page_id=2552

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12/19/2011 8:05 PM

What could it be? I think the word is "hungry".

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12/19/2011 12:08 AM

BruceFlorida - Please never again spoil a good threat / thread with facts.
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12/19/2011 10:56 AM

I sure hope that that South Korean "killer robot" can distinguish between friend and foe!

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12/19/2011 11:41 AM

No it can't, anything moving is considered an enemy....and it can "see" you from about a 1/4 mile away....You'll never know what hit you...

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12/19/2011 12:29 PM

Laser Guided Ventilator
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12/19/2011 2:47 PM

I don't know what it is, or, what it's been eating: but looking at the bottom right corner of the picture I hope its owner is following it around with a pooper scooper.

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12/19/2011 4:41 PM

It's a...uhm...something

darn it!

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