Juan Fernando Pacheco

CB2 Child Robot, I’m scared.

Posted by Juan Fernando Pacheco

This are one of those stories than don’t appears as real, but it is.

Via Tokyo Times I found this post about this new humanoid robot, called CB2 (Child-Robot with Biometric Body), here his characteristics:

• 33 kilogram of net weight
• Facial expressions
• React to its surroundings by blinking
• Stand up with assistance

But in my personal point of view I’m scared about it maybe is some in his face or maybe it doesn’t looks cute, anyway here’s a video of he or she.

I hope it doesn’t ends like this one.

World’s Famous Photos: Kim Phúc - The napalm girl [1972].

Posted by Juan Fernando Pacheco

From today and during some future posts, I’m write about some of the most world’s famous photos. Today I wants to write about Kim Phúc - The napalm girl [1972].

This photo was taken on June 8, 1972 by the Associated Press Photographer Huynh Cong Út A.K.A  Nick Ut (Born on March 29, 1951), during an escape of the villagers from a village near to Trang Bang, after a napalm bomb was dropped on the village by a plane of the Vietnam Air Force, this occurs during the Vietnam war.

In this Photo we can see the little Kim Phuc, at the age of nine years old, running naked on the road whit her body burns by the napalm, the boy is her older brother who lost an eye after the attacks, after of this Nick Ut took her and some other children to the Hospital in Saigon where several months after they can exit with their bodies recovered from the burns.

This photo was prized with the Pulitzer, but the image by itself got its own story, because the publication of the photo was delayed due to the AP bureaus about show a naked girl.

…an editor at the AP rejected the photo of Kim Phuc running down the road without clothing because it showed frontal nudity. Pictures of nudes of all ages and sexes, and especially frontal views were an absolute no-no at the Associated Press in 1972…Horst argued by telex with the New York head-office that an exception must be made, with the compromise that no close-up of the girl Kim Phuc alone would be transmitted. The New York photo editor, Hal Buell, agreed that the news value of the photograph overrode any reservations about nudity.

Today Nick Ut and Kim Phuc, still in contact, she’s living in Canada and collaborates for the UNESCO.

ASIA - Tokyo - Japón

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Para quienes me conocen, saben que uno de mis anhelos o propósitos de vida es un día poder conocer Asia, de forma especial tres lugares Tokyo - Japón, Hong Kong – China y Tokelau en la Polinesia.

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