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MacGyver POP! Action Figure Is Business in the Front, Party in the Back

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Growing up, I LOVED the TV series MacGyver. I heard all the crazy stuff he did was possible in real life, save like one ingredient. I so wanted to make exploding chewing gum, I would have blown the testes straight off my 5th grade PE coach with it. Anyone who forces kids to square dance deserves exploded testicles.

Sadly, the new MacGyver sucks and I was so disappointed in it. Fans of the real MacGyver will want to collect this Funko POP! action figure of the character Richard Dean Anderson brought to life. This little jerry-rigger has a Swiss army knife in hand and can escape anything.

The action figure is rocking a sweet plastic mullet and has that signature bomber jacket on that he won’t take off even if working in the desert.You might find it hard to keep him in his display box. You can pre-order Mac at Entertainment Earth for $10.99, and you should have him sometime this September.

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MacGyver Intro without Music: Solving Crimes with Sound Effects

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One of the highlights of the week for me growing up was each fresh episode of MacGyver. The only thing that could spoil it for me was a rerun, but I watched them anyway. MacGyver had a one-word name, an epic ’80s mullet and got himself out of jams using his brain instead of fighting or shooting his way out of them. I loved that show and have many fond memories of that cheesy opening credit sequence.

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Mario Wienerroither has taken those opening credits, removed all the music and added sound effects in. The result is as strange and hilarious as it sounds.

I forgot how long that intro scene was. If you aren’t a child of the ’80s be sure and check out the original opening as well and revel in the cheese that was MacGyver. You can even watch every episode of the show on CBS All Access if you are so inclined.

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MacGruber 2 is Coming says Ryan Phillippe

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Actor Ryan Phillippe is on promotion tour for his movie Catch Hell that he wrote, directed and plays the lead role. In an interview with MTV, Ryan Phillippe revealed that they are very close to...

Georgia Tech receives $900,000 grant from Office of Naval Research to develop ‘MacGyver’ robot

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Georgia Institute of Technology received $900,000 grant from Office of Naval Research to develop 'Macgyver' robot

Robots come in many flavors. There's the subservient kind, the virtual representative, the odd one with an artistic bent, and even robo-cattle. But, typically, they all hit the same roadblock: they can only do what they are programmed to do. Of course, there are those that posses some AI smarts, too, but Georgia Tech wants to take this to the next level, and build a 'bot that can interact with its environment on the fly. The project hopes to give machines deployed in disaster situations the ability to find objects in their environment for use as tools, such as placing a chair to reach something high, or building bridges from debris. The idea builds on previous work where robots learned to moved objects out of their way, and developing an algorithm that allows them to identify items, and asses its usefulness as a tool. This would be backed up by some programming, to give the droids a basic understanding of rigid body mechanics, and how to construct motion plans. The Office of Navy Research's interest comes from potential future applications, working side-by-side with military personnel out on missions, which along with iRobot 110, forms the early foundations for the cyber army of our childhood imaginations.

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Pentagon starts Phoenix trial to harvest defunct satellites, MacGyver new ones from orbit

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The Phoenix Frankenprogram to harvest the corpses of expired satellites and cobble together new ones seemed like one of DARPA's more daft ideas, but this one has actually kicked off its first phase of development. The plan is to first launch a service craft -- replete with robotic arms and enough processing horsepower to work independently if needed -- followed by the tiny base-unit skeleton satlets. The service mothership would dip into an orbital area called the "graveyard", grabbing pre-chosen cadavers and picking off usable parts, especially valuable antenna arrays, with its robo-limbs. Those parts would be jury-rigged to the bare-bones units, creating usable Pentagon satellites and saving the $10,000 per pound launch cost. So far, a $2.5 million contract to develop the needed technology has been put in place, and bids for the no-frills satlets went out last week. Plenty of dirty work is still needed, so check the video after the break to see if the overly-elaborate plan can un-moot $300 billion of orbiting cold metal.

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