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Default Self-Reproduction of a Universal Machine Tool

On Aug 28, 2:20*pm, Leon Fisk wrote:
On Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:57:01 -0700 (PDT), Jim Wilkins

wrote:

big snip

The Segway is one of them, it
certainly isn't dead but it didn't change the world as hoped either.


Have you seen Toyota's Segway knock-off? The Winglet. See:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,396261,00.html

http://www.vitalsignsreport.com/arti...hp?entry=24531

http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/01/t...-to-usurp-segw...

I guess they figure it is worth emulating or something...

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Leon Fisk


There was some bad stuff like a 2o7 cookie in that last link, and
Zonealarm blocked 12 intrusion attempts.

It isn't that hard to make a self-balancing machine, only hard to make
it safe.