The best part about growing up in Michigan, besides my pet wolverine, was the abundance of snow days. But a school district in Ohio is threatening to destroy the sacred snow day by making kids learn. On the internet.
Tag Junior book pal, LeapFrog’s newest Tag reading system, is now kid-friendlier with its chunky, ubercute, small-hands-friendly design, so you can start neglecting your children even earlier.
She may look miles away from crossing uncanny valley, but Nexi from MIT’s Personal Robots Group is at least on the way. She’s designed to be a “Mobile Social Dextrous” machine that moves like we do when we express emotions. So, she’s got fully articulated arms and a head with features that can be motored around to form expressions. Acting out emotions, she’s actually rather amazing, in a slightly sad robot kinda way: the video may send a few chills down your spine, no matter how “artificial” Nexi looks now.
