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Here is a sales video of a fully automated sentry gun – auto-detecting humans, shooting them or accepting surrender. Video, infrared, 5.5 mm. Developed by Samsung, together with the University of South Korea. Why Korea? Because they use them to guard the border. Some more info.

• Cyberpunk Tech 11 – Bodymonitor/Killdisplay
• Cyberpunk Tech 10 – Cybernetic implants
• Cyberpunk Tech 9 – Cyberarm
• Cyberpunk Tech 8 – Exosceleton
• Cyberpunk Tech 7 – Brain-Computer interface
• Cyberpunk Tech 6 – Cyberarm
• Cyberpunk Tech 5 – Autos and motorcycles
• Cyberpunk Tech 4 – Cybereye with telescope
• Cyberpunk Tech 3 – Bionic Arm
• Cyberpunk Tech 2 – artifical hand and muscles
• Cyberpunk Tech 1 – Roboter tastert ohne humane Kontrolle Menschen

Angus told Dom of www.rollenspiel-almanach.de (the finest german source on rpg news), who asked for me when Genesis Descent would be published:

“We are revising the schedule for Genesis Descent as we needed more development time on the core setting. I should be sending out more news about the new schedule shortly.”

Gary Astleford (aka Ocelot) is blogging.  About Cyberpunk 2020. Amazing. His blog is about the game he’s running at work. At WORK (!) – what a lucky guy. He just posted the first session recap. The game is called “The New Untouchables”, seems to be a cop campaign.

If you don’t know who Gary is: Its the guy who created Mockery’s Cyberpunk 2020 page, one of the very best pages for the game system. He also invented the Drug Lab 101 and Ocelot’s Alternate Character Generation System for Cyberpunk 2020 (and lots of other great stuff).

Just a quick link to RPG In Progress. Chris has a series of posts that are very thoughtful attempts on what a cyberpunk vision would be like today. The series starts with this post.

Just noting these for future cyberpunk uses. Suddenly the crazy 80′s future makeup doesn’t look so crazy.
– Rob Donoghue

Preliminary makeup patterns to hide from face detection

About this image:

• Images with a red square tested positive, a face was found
• Images without a red square tested negative, no face was found
• Images under the section “TEST PATTERNS” are made according to results of the Haar deconstruction
• Images under “RANDOM PATTERNS” are random doodles made without the anti-face detection patterns in mind
• Images underneath the “NO PATTERNS” heading are left untouched to show that the face detection works well on simple line drawings
• Line drawings are from Figure Drawing for Fashion Design

via AH Projects