Here comes the wave of the future...and by wave, I mean Cylons.

Found this infomercial for a company called Festo...or heretofore to be known as the Harbingers of Doom! If anyone thought that Skynet or Cylons were merely a figment of some scifi geek's imagination...they were right. Except that scifi geek got a bunch of money, joined with some other scifi geeks to create a giant F-U to organic evolution.

Question is, how long until we go from this:

ENIAC (picture from Wikipedia)

To this

Number Six a la Battlestar Galactica (picture from Wikipedia)

Behold, the future:

• intelligent robot penguins that can swim backwards
• bionic flying penguins with 3-d sonar
• autonomous robot arms that have the fine motor skills of a human hand
• Walls that react and reform according to human behavior
• robots that can grow...

If it wasn't so awesome...I'd probably be in the corner hiding under a tin-foil hat. That I'm sure would be itself an intelligent, autonomous Decepticon hat designed to suck my brains out of my ears.