Unbelievable videos of quadrotor robots flying around:
Bonus, the first one produced my favorite YouTube comment of all time: “Can’t wait to have twenty of the little bastards chase me around the post apocalyptic wasteland.”
(thx david)
…a year later and millions of Americans are dead and the nation’s infrastructure lies in tatters. The World Bank declares America a developing nation. Europe, Scandinavia, China and Japan are also struggling to recover from the same fateful event – a violent storm, 150 million kilometres away on the surface of the sun.
As if I didn’t have enough to fret over. Not to mention the indignity of having civilization shattered by something called “plasma balls.”
I confess, I usually skip the fiction in The New Yorker, but how could I pass up a mere 1,500-word alien invasion?
The full web pilot for The Remnants, starring Ze Frank (and Justine Bateman, remember her?). Too bad it’s looking unlikely it’ll go anywhere.
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