Restaurant Komani, on the campus of University of Tokyo, provided an excellent cafeteria style lunch. The restaurant prides itself in local sourcing, and the dishes (in particular the mackerel) were excellent. It’s a little out of the way, but worthwhile if you’re looking for something a ...
Then, 100 years later Czech writer Karel Capek coined the term robot, in his 1921 play called "R.U.R." or "Rossum's Universal Robots." The plot was simple and terrifying; the man makes a robot then robot kills a man. In 1927, Fritz Lang's "Metropolis" was released. The Maschinenm...
The terms ''robot'' and ''robotics appeared in literature long before they appeared in the real world. ''Robot'' was coined by Czech playwright Karl Capek in 1921 using a slight modification on the Czech word for slave. The famous science fiction writer, Isaac Asimov, expanded the term ...
Who coined the term cyberspace? Cyberspace: The word cyberspace was first found in the work, 'Burning Chrome,' which is a short story published in 1982. This story followed two professional hackers who purchased a high-level software used to steal money from a criminal. ...
Raj:Nellie from Recodecoined that title to nutshellize what we do. It’s an unfortunate title, but oddly endearing, and we like Nellie. (And now, I’ve coined the term “nutshellize.”) Chris mentioned that he edits video — does that mean you guys make your own GIFs, in addition...
On TV, it takes the Doctor a while to use Professor Jones’ feverish utterance of the word “serendipity” to unravel the plot, but in the book the Doctor gives us the whole etymology of the word, “coined by a chap called Horace Walpole, after the fairy-tale calledThe Three Princes of...
McKay joined an experimental Second City troupe and later cofounded the Upright Citizens Brigade with Matt Besser, Horatio Sanz, and Ian Roberts. (Roman, who coined the group’s name, drowned in his car during a freak flood in Chicago in 1992; it was McKay who had to identify his body ...
The term was coined by seed investor and Cowboy Ventures founder Aileen Lee in 2013 in her article for TechCrunch, “Welcome To The Unicorn Club: Learning from Billion-Dollar Startups.” Her definition of a unicorn is “U.S.-based software companies started since 2003 and valued at over ...
Released in 1996, a Furby is a singing electronic robot toy resembling wide-eyed owls that later came in dozens of configurations. They were the first robotic toy that could be trained in 24 different languages and respond to human interaction. About27 million were sold over the yearfollowing ...
Trope Anatomy 101: The Girls Who Deserve to Die If you know anything about horror movies, especially slashers, you’ve almost certainly heard of the “final girl,” i.e., the last woman left standing after virtually everyone else is dead. First coined back in 1992 by Carol J. Clover in...