{"id":44097,"date":"2011-07-25T01:13:03","date_gmt":"2011-07-25T01:13:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/a-solution-in-search-of-a-problem-or-a-solution\/"},"modified":"2011-07-25T01:13:03","modified_gmt":"2011-07-25T01:13:03","slug":"a-solution-in-search-of-a-problem-or-a-solution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/a-solution-in-search-of-a-problem-or-a-solution\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>A solution in search of a problem, or a solution to a problem that you were too proud to cop to? SoftEther has just revealed what might be the final blow to Barbie&rsquo;s distinguished career: the sensor-splashed QUMA. So far as we can tell, the human-shaped puppet contains a myriad sensors to pick up precise bends and flexes, and then pipes that information to a screen. Aside from showing your team of ballerinas exactly how their routine should look, we&rsquo;re guessing that the real future here is in far more sophisticated tasks &ndash; things like artificial intelligence, major motion pictures and scientific research. As the saying goes, a video&rsquo;s worth a zillion words, so have a peek for yourself just after the break.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2011\/07\/24\/softethers-sensor-laden-quma-robot-demonstrates-poses-intimida\/\">SoftEther&rsquo;s sensor-laden QUMA robot demonstrates poses, intimidates your acting coach (video) &ndash; Engadget<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A solution in search of a problem, or a solution to a problem that you were too proud to cop to? SoftEther has just revealed what might be the final blow to Barbie&rsquo;s distinguished career: the sensor-splashed QUMA. So far as we can tell, the human-shaped puppet contains a myriad sensors to pick up precise [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[1537],"class_list":["post-44097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","tag-critical-toys","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-btf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44097\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}