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<generator>Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/</generator><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Intel talks up shape-shifting "programmable matter," bugs us out]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/02/intel-talks-up-shape-shifting-programmable-matter-bugs-us-out/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/02/intel-talks-up-shape-shifting-programmable-matter-bugs-us-out/</guid><description><![CDATA[A shape shifting car would be cool. Shape shifting house. Shape shifting 250 foot robot armed with nuclear grenades and plasma cannons? Oh boy.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Valgas]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 2nd 2008 9:34AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Intel talks up shape-shifting "programmable matter," bugs us out]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/02/intel-talks-up-shape-shifting-programmable-matter-bugs-us-out/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/02/intel-talks-up-shape-shifting-programmable-matter-bugs-us-out/</guid><description><![CDATA[A shape shifting car would be cool. More like A shape shifting car would be more than meets the eye.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[DSeaver]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 2nd 2008 9:49AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Intel talks up shape-shifting "programmable matter," bugs us out]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/02/intel-talks-up-shape-shifting-programmable-matter-bugs-us-out/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/02/intel-talks-up-shape-shifting-programmable-matter-bugs-us-out/</guid><description><![CDATA[Seems like this or similar tech could be adapted to create artificial muscles]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Spyvie]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 2nd 2008 2:14PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Intel talks up shape-shifting "programmable matter," bugs us out]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/02/intel-talks-up-shape-shifting-programmable-matter-bugs-us-out/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/02/intel-talks-up-shape-shifting-programmable-matter-bugs-us-out/</guid><description><![CDATA[This is so far off. Cyborgs will have enslaved mankind and conquered the universe long before there's programmable matter...]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[LondonConsultant]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 2nd 2008 9:41AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Intel talks up shape-shifting "programmable matter," bugs us out]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/02/intel-talks-up-shape-shifting-programmable-matter-bugs-us-out/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/02/intel-talks-up-shape-shifting-programmable-matter-bugs-us-out/</guid><description><![CDATA[Or the cyborgs will be the programmable matter.  Replicators anyone?]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[who?]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 2nd 2008 2:32PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Intel talks up shape-shifting "programmable matter," bugs us out]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/02/intel-talks-up-shape-shifting-programmable-matter-bugs-us-out/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/02/intel-talks-up-shape-shifting-programmable-matter-bugs-us-out/</guid><description><![CDATA[What?]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Kyle Richards]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 2nd 2008 9:49AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Intel talks up shape-shifting "programmable matter," bugs us out]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/02/intel-talks-up-shape-shifting-programmable-matter-bugs-us-out/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/02/intel-talks-up-shape-shifting-programmable-matter-bugs-us-out/</guid><description><![CDATA[Just what i was thinking.  It all seems like a pretty straightforward explanation to me, even with no specialized knowledge of electronics or physics. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[sola]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 2nd 2008 10:06AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Intel talks up shape-shifting "programmable matter," bugs us out]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/02/intel-talks-up-shape-shifting-programmable-matter-bugs-us-out/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/02/intel-talks-up-shape-shifting-programmable-matter-bugs-us-out/</guid><description><![CDATA[But is it possible to program it to form a computer which can play Crysis?]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Harry Wagstaff]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 2nd 2008 10:07AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Intel talks up shape-shifting "programmable matter," bugs us out]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/02/intel-talks-up-shape-shifting-programmable-matter-bugs-us-out/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/02/intel-talks-up-shape-shifting-programmable-matter-bugs-us-out/</guid><description><![CDATA[Actually, I understood all that perfectly.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Raven]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 2nd 2008 10:24AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Intel talks up shape-shifting "programmable matter," bugs us out]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/02/intel-talks-up-shape-shifting-programmable-matter-bugs-us-out/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/02/intel-talks-up-shape-shifting-programmable-matter-bugs-us-out/</guid><description><![CDATA[Well I guess the stuff of movies is soon going to be the stuff of life. T-1000 anyone or how about some Futurama-esque Lucy Liu love bots? I can hardly wait.....]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[SOOPERGOOMAN]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 2nd 2008 10:12AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Intel talks up shape-shifting "programmable matter," bugs us out]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/02/intel-talks-up-shape-shifting-programmable-matter-bugs-us-out/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/02/intel-talks-up-shape-shifting-programmable-matter-bugs-us-out/</guid><description><![CDATA[Well I guess the stuff of movies is soon going to be the stuff of life. T-1000 anyone or how about some Futurama-esque Lucy Liu love bots? I can hardly wait.....<br><br><br>Sorry if this double posts, I don't know why....]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[SOOPERGOOMAN]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 2nd 2008 10:15AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Intel talks up shape-shifting "programmable matter," bugs us out]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/02/intel-talks-up-shape-shifting-programmable-matter-bugs-us-out/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/02/intel-talks-up-shape-shifting-programmable-matter-bugs-us-out/</guid><description><![CDATA[Just remember, any time someone says something is "10 to 20 years away," that is marketing speak for "unobtainable with current technology."  <br><br>It might show up in 10 to 20 years, or 5, or never.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jon Acheson]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 2nd 2008 10:21AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Intel talks up shape-shifting "programmable matter," bugs us out]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/02/intel-talks-up-shape-shifting-programmable-matter-bugs-us-out/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/02/intel-talks-up-shape-shifting-programmable-matter-bugs-us-out/</guid><description><![CDATA[Ya, the atoms are programmed to change its properties and stuff. Saw it last week on GeekBrief.TV]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jash Sayani]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 2nd 2008 10:45AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Intel talks up shape-shifting "programmable matter," bugs us out]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/02/intel-talks-up-shape-shifting-programmable-matter-bugs-us-out/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/02/intel-talks-up-shape-shifting-programmable-matter-bugs-us-out/</guid><description><![CDATA[Did anyone else see this and at first think "Hey look, burgers!"]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Painkilla05]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 2nd 2008 10:50AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Intel talks up shape-shifting "programmable matter," bugs us out]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/02/intel-talks-up-shape-shifting-programmable-matter-bugs-us-out/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/02/intel-talks-up-shape-shifting-programmable-matter-bugs-us-out/</guid><description><![CDATA[strangely, the phrase "load of bollocks" comes to mind.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[pfromg]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 2nd 2008 10:53AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Intel talks up shape-shifting "programmable matter," bugs us out]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/02/intel-talks-up-shape-shifting-programmable-matter-bugs-us-out/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/02/intel-talks-up-shape-shifting-programmable-matter-bugs-us-out/</guid><description><![CDATA[I want,   Raquel Welch!]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Rick]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 2nd 2008 10:54AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Intel talks up shape-shifting "programmable matter," bugs us out]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/02/intel-talks-up-shape-shifting-programmable-matter-bugs-us-out/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/02/intel-talks-up-shape-shifting-programmable-matter-bugs-us-out/</guid><description><![CDATA[Didn't the science channel have a whole show on this exact thing last week?]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[fischju]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 2nd 2008 11:51AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Intel talks up shape-shifting "programmable matter," bugs us out]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/02/intel-talks-up-shape-shifting-programmable-matter-bugs-us-out/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/02/intel-talks-up-shape-shifting-programmable-matter-bugs-us-out/</guid><description><![CDATA[Not the entire show, no, but yeah, they had a show on Sunday where they talked about this, and the person (presumably from Intel) said that this tech may be available to the real world in a little as 5 years...<br><br>It's pretty awesome stuff if you ask me.  The main concept was for a 3d fax machine / printer type tech.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jesse Felt]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 2nd 2008 2:09PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Intel talks up shape-shifting "programmable matter," bugs us out]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/02/intel-talks-up-shape-shifting-programmable-matter-bugs-us-out/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/02/intel-talks-up-shape-shifting-programmable-matter-bugs-us-out/</guid><description><![CDATA[So it's like Terminator 2...]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[timothy]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 2nd 2008 11:58AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Intel talks up shape-shifting "programmable matter," bugs us out]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/02/intel-talks-up-shape-shifting-programmable-matter-bugs-us-out/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/02/intel-talks-up-shape-shifting-programmable-matter-bugs-us-out/</guid><description><![CDATA[lol that's exactly what I thought! The terminator who can mould into any non-complex metal shape. Scary.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[TheWakeUpCall]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 2nd 2008 6:31PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Intel talks up shape-shifting "programmable matter," bugs us out]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/02/intel-talks-up-shape-shifting-programmable-matter-bugs-us-out/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/02/intel-talks-up-shape-shifting-programmable-matter-bugs-us-out/</guid><description><![CDATA[Can it play Doom?]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[nowicki222]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 2nd 2008 12:02PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Intel talks up shape-shifting "programmable matter," bugs us out]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/02/intel-talks-up-shape-shifting-programmable-matter-bugs-us-out/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/02/intel-talks-up-shape-shifting-programmable-matter-bugs-us-out/</guid><description><![CDATA[Vonnegut - Cat's Cradle - Ice Nine]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[halkonlar]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 2nd 2008 12:07PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Intel talks up shape-shifting "programmable matter," bugs us out]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/02/intel-talks-up-shape-shifting-programmable-matter-bugs-us-out/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/02/intel-talks-up-shape-shifting-programmable-matter-bugs-us-out/</guid><description><![CDATA[Earl Grey, hot.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Astralplaydoh]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 2nd 2008 12:24PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Intel talks up shape-shifting "programmable matter," bugs us out]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/02/intel-talks-up-shape-shifting-programmable-matter-bugs-us-out/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/02/intel-talks-up-shape-shifting-programmable-matter-bugs-us-out/</guid><description><![CDATA[what do you do with those things? butt?]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[StalematE]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 2nd 2008 12:31PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Intel talks up shape-shifting "programmable matter," bugs us out]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/02/intel-talks-up-shape-shifting-programmable-matter-bugs-us-out/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/02/intel-talks-up-shape-shifting-programmable-matter-bugs-us-out/</guid><description><![CDATA[i didn't know "butt" was a verb]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[phanbouy]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 2nd 2008 1:46PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Intel talks up shape-shifting "programmable matter," bugs us out]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/02/intel-talks-up-shape-shifting-programmable-matter-bugs-us-out/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/02/intel-talks-up-shape-shifting-programmable-matter-bugs-us-out/</guid><description><![CDATA[This will fulfill a lot of gamer fantasies.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[AlphaTeam]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 2nd 2008 12:46PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Intel talks up shape-shifting "programmable matter," bugs us out]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/02/intel-talks-up-shape-shifting-programmable-matter-bugs-us-out/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/02/intel-talks-up-shape-shifting-programmable-matter-bugs-us-out/</guid><description><![CDATA[mimetic poly-alloy.... uh oh.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[adam]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 2nd 2008 12:59PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Intel talks up shape-shifting "programmable matter," bugs us out]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/02/intel-talks-up-shape-shifting-programmable-matter-bugs-us-out/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/02/intel-talks-up-shape-shifting-programmable-matter-bugs-us-out/</guid><description><![CDATA[Someone's been watching too much Stargate Atlantis.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[dukemang]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 2nd 2008 12:50PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Intel talks up shape-shifting "programmable matter," bugs us out]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/02/intel-talks-up-shape-shifting-programmable-matter-bugs-us-out/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/02/intel-talks-up-shape-shifting-programmable-matter-bugs-us-out/</guid><description><![CDATA[On the contrary, using nanotech, the theory is very technically sound.  There's no reason something like this couldn't be done once nanotech is "mastered."  Of course we're talking probably decades before we come close to that point.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Hickeroar]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 2nd 2008 12:54PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Intel talks up shape-shifting "programmable matter," bugs us out]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/02/intel-talks-up-shape-shifting-programmable-matter-bugs-us-out/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/02/intel-talks-up-shape-shifting-programmable-matter-bugs-us-out/</guid><description><![CDATA[There is no such thing as too much Stargate Atlantis.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[ED]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 2nd 2008 7:37PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Intel talks up shape-shifting "programmable matter," bugs us out]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/02/intel-talks-up-shape-shifting-programmable-matter-bugs-us-out/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/02/intel-talks-up-shape-shifting-programmable-matter-bugs-us-out/</guid><description><![CDATA[Sounds like something straight out of an Alastair Reynolds book.  Or maybe from Neal Stephenson's "Diamond Age."]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Hickeroar]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 2nd 2008 12:53PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Intel talks up shape-shifting "programmable matter," bugs us out]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/02/intel-talks-up-shape-shifting-programmable-matter-bugs-us-out/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/02/intel-talks-up-shape-shifting-programmable-matter-bugs-us-out/</guid><description><![CDATA[Isn't this a Star Trek replicator. I wish...]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Bubba626]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 2nd 2008 3:09PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Intel talks up shape-shifting "programmable matter," bugs us out]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/02/intel-talks-up-shape-shifting-programmable-matter-bugs-us-out/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/02/intel-talks-up-shape-shifting-programmable-matter-bugs-us-out/</guid><description><![CDATA[>Can it play Doom?<br><br>No - it plays flight simulator:<br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jeV77dSyMI" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jeV77dSyMI</a>]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Juxxxer]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 2nd 2008 3:41PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Intel talks up shape-shifting "programmable matter," bugs us out]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/02/intel-talks-up-shape-shifting-programmable-matter-bugs-us-out/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/02/intel-talks-up-shape-shifting-programmable-matter-bugs-us-out/</guid><description><![CDATA[Yeah, I got it too. its not like theyre trying to rearrange the positions of atoms, just little snoglobes. A ways off, sure, but not super hard to understand.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Tim]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 2nd 2008 4:26PM</pubDate></item></channel></rss>