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Byline: SIGNE BREWSTER NEIL STEVENS SELF-HELPERS MY WEEK LIVING WITH CHATBOTS Recently, I was hungry. So I told the Whole Foods chatbot what I had in my fridge, and it [...]

Byline: SIGNE BREWSTER JOSEPH SHIN HOLY BRICKS, BATMAN! HOW TO MAKE A STOP-MOTION LEGO FLICK Despite the blocky, herky-jerky quality of the visuals, 2014's The Lego Movie and this February's [...]

Byline: SIGNE BREWSTER CHRISTIE HEMM KLOK THE CUTTING EDGE MASTER WOODWORKING You may not think of yourself as a woodworker, but the founders of Shaper can change that. The San [...]

Byline: -SIGNE BREWSTER HEAVENLY FEATURE SHOOTING AN IMAX FILM FROM SPACE The First Orbital Selfie Stick To film themselves, astronauts rigged a camera to a pole. For her new Imax [...]

AN EXPLOSION OF DELAYS Signe Brewster Seed flight Destination airport Actual arrival time Blame Maine. Your tardy JFK- Seattle flight could be the fault of one mechanical problem, hours earlier, [...]

UNCOMMON INTERNSHIPS SIGNE BREWSTER In The Internship , out this June, Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson make working at Google look like it's all Quidditch matches and overstocked kitchens. Well, [...]

TASTE THE RAINBOW SIGNE BREWSTER PHOTOGRAPH BY ROGER CABELLO The eye-melting brightness of your Wild Berry Pop-Tarts is a product of the $1.5 billion food-coloring industry. But the global market [...]

Byline: SIGNE BREWSTER Higgs Boson When scientists at CERN's Large Hadron Collider reported that they had likely found the Higgs boson, physics went mainstream. Overnight, the subatomic particle became a [...]

Home robot COMPANY: Mayfield Robotics PRICE: $699 AVAILA BILITY: Late 2017 Kuri looks up at me and squints as if in a smile. Then the robot rolls across the floor, [...]

Windshield display COMPANY: Navdy PRICE: $799 AVAILABILITY: Now Heads-up displays for directions and notifications are trickling into luxury cars, but the $799 Navdy was born to be an after-market option. [...]

Wristband COMPANY: Somatic Labs PRICE: $159 AVAILABILITY: Early 2017 Our mobile devices communicate with us through sounds and screens, but a new wristband relies instead on touch. The device, called [...]

Robotic Suit COMPANY: Superflex PRICE: Unknown AVAILABILITY: Unknown Superflex, which spun out of SRI International, is building a wearable robotic suit that may help the elderly ditch their walkers. The [...]

Robotic exoskeleton COMPANY: SuitX PRICE: $40,000 AVAILABILITY: Now Paralyzed from the waist down after a BMX accident, Steven Sanchez rolled into SuitX's Berkeley, California, office in a wheelchair. A half-hour [...]

COMPANY: Ehang PRICE: $200,000-$300,000 AVAILABILITY: 2016 Ready to commute via drone? The 184, built by Chinese consumer drone maker Ehang, is a 440-pound quadcopter with an enclosed seating area for […]

COMPANY: VirZoom PRICE: $250 AVAILABILITY: First half of 2016 A new stationary bike from Boston startup VirZoom requires an unusual accessory while you're pedaling: a virtual-reality headset to add some […]

The article offers the author's insights on the use of Chatbots and its benefits. The author mentions the benefits of using the online service for personal advantage such as in knowing what kind of food to eat and the best type of ralaxation that can be recommended by the online service. The author cites the other features of Chatbots including its Spiritual Assistant, the Woebot and the Invisible Boyfriend.

The article offers tips for making stop-motion lego movie including handling camera, using traditional stage lighting, and using Stop Motion Studio mobile app for taking photos and video.