<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><xml><meta><title>NYC Considering Robohawk to fight pigeons : XML WIDGET</title><link>http://www.plime.com/technology/</link><description>You can use this XML spec to create a desktop widget or other application (i.e. Flash visualization). Please share it with us in our forum and we'll link it here!</description><language>en-us</language></meta><items><link><id>62188</id><url>http://www.plime.com/technology/l/62188/1/</url><title><![CDATA[NYC Considering Robohawk to fight pigeons]]></title><description><![CDATA[Will the Big Apple spring big $$$ to fight rats with wings? Liverpool, England started their robot hawk program last year. <br/><br/>More on the <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://gothamist.com/2008/05/16/robotic_hawk.php" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">&quot;pigeon czar&quot; proposal.</a><br/><br/>(I thought I read a similar article on plime recently, but can't find it. Or, I imagined I did)]]></description><comments>5</comments><score>265</score><crdate>5/17/2008 2:40:41 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-05-17T14:40:41+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>22165</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/22165/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Fight or Flight?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Did you ever wonder about your own &quot;fight or flight&quot; response?  Here's is a young man discovering that his response is most definitely &quot;fight.&quot;  How would your primitive brain respond?]]></description><comments>2</comments><score>66</score><crdate>5/30/2007 10:05:46 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-05-30T22:05:46+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>57032</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/57032/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Apple Computers Suing New York]]></title><description><![CDATA[They feel that New York, known as The Big Apple since the <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Apple" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">20's</a>use of an apple logo will cause harm and confusion regarding their company.]]></description><comments>16</comments><score>456</score><crdate>4/4/2008 10:03:09 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-04-04T10:03:09+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>60083</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/60083/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Seattle Pigeons Attacked With Darts]]></title><description><![CDATA[Pigeons in Seattle, Washington, are under attack by an unknown assailant with a dart gun, officials say.<br/><br/>Local authorities have received several reports of pigeons found in the city center with 3- to 4-inch (7.5- to 10-centimeter) metal darts through their skulls.]]></description><comments>10</comments><score>391</score><crdate>4/29/2008 10:46:00 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-04-29T22:46:00+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>1794</id><url>http://www.plime.com/technology/l/1794/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Worlds worst robot.]]></title><description><![CDATA[It claims nothing beats this robot when it comes to pouring beer.<br/>But seriously, ive never seen anything so inefficient in my life.<br/>Possibly the worlds most tedious robot.<br/>(Scroll down for video)]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>17</score><crdate>10/1/2006 3:49:57 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2006-10-01T15:49:57+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>14334</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/14334/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Dancing robot (no not that robot)]]></title><description><![CDATA[Keepon is a robot project by Marek Michalowski of Carnegie Mellon to create a socially rhythmic robot that detects beats and dances to them.]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>5</score><crdate>3/28/2007 4:27:03 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-03-28T04:27:03+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>17702</id><url>http://www.plime.com/technology/l/17702/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Scientists to build robot society ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Scientists in Dundee have announced plans to create a &quot;robot village&quot; in an effort to learn how different cultures emerge in society.]]></description><comments>3</comments><score>74</score><crdate>4/24/2007 1:08:15 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-04-24T13:08:15+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>8365</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/8365/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Worst Fight Scene of All Time]]></title><description><![CDATA[Worst, yet comically best, fight scene ever. Also included: The worst one liner of all time.]]></description><comments>5</comments><score>50</score><crdate>12/31/2006 2:07:00 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2006-12-31T02:07:00+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>19596</id><url>http://www.plime.com/technology/l/19596/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Fastest Industrial Robot On The Market]]></title><description><![CDATA[Researchers from CNRS and the Spanish foundation Fatronik have designed a manipulator-type robot that is twice as fast as all existing robots.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>49</score><crdate>5/9/2007 9:47:20 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-05-09T09:47:20+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>61307</id><url>http://www.plime.com/technology/l/61307/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Robot whips up a snack]]></title><description><![CDATA[We reported last year that Fujitsu's <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.fujitsu.com/global/about/rd/200506hoap-series.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">HOAP-3 </a>robot is <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://technology.newscientist.com/channel/tech/mg19626356.500-humanoid-robot-finds-learning-childs-play.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">learning the basics of chess</a>. Now the little fellow is trying his hand at cooking. It can chop, whisk, and grate its way through a simple omelette recipe - check out the video.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>127</score><crdate>5/10/2008 6:44:11 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-05-10T06:44:11+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>58983</id><url>http://www.plime.com/science/l/58983/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Jules ponders sex]]></title><description><![CDATA[Jules, the talking, thinking robot from Hansen Robotics... talks about sex with one of his creators.<br/><br/>Yes, it appears set up, but the robot... really isn't.<br/><br/>More info at <div style='display:block;width:300px;overflow:hidden;'><a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.hansonrobotics.com/index.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.hansonrobotics.com/index.html</a></div>]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>91</score><crdate>4/19/2008 5:04:02 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-04-19T17:04:02+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>46338</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/46338/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Teen's iPod Leads to Family Fight, Mom's Arrest in Kingston]]></title><description><![CDATA[An impatient teenager who wanted to download songs on his iPod but couldn't wait for his father to get off the computer started a family fight that led to the arrest of his mother, police said.]]></description><comments>5</comments><score>254</score><crdate>1/8/2008 1:52:43 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-01-08T01:52:43+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>55848</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/55848/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Zoltan's Robot Girlfriend (mildly NSFW)]]></title><description><![CDATA[Zoltan's website shows how he built a robot girlfriend on his website, and explains why he proposed to it in this <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://gizmodo.com/367698/technosexual-one-mans-tale-of-robot-love" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">article</a>.<br/><br/>I cannot even begin to describe how creepy and downright WRONG this is. I feel the need to bathe in bleach now. This guy needs help and a cleaner.]]></description><comments>12</comments><score>103</score><crdate>3/26/2008 2:24:50 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-03-26T14:24:50+01:00</atomdate></link></items></xml>