Engineering
Amazing video about Abu Dhabi’s urban planning decisions
This is a very well done video.
Amazing video about Abu Dhabi’s urban planning decisions
Video: Exoskeleton
If you haven’t seen the amusing and interesting movie, Project Grizzly, about Ontario, Canada inventor Troy Hurtubuise I strongly recommend you check it out. It features Troy on an expensive quest ($100,000) to build a suit that would allow him to go head to head with a grizzly bear. I won’t spoil the ending but [...]
Earliest Vocal Recording Found from 1860 - Earlier than Edison by 17 years
This is a fascinating story. The earliest human voice recorded by smoke blackened paper. Amazing. The recording will be presented on Friday at a conference of the Association for Recorded Sound Collections at Stanford University in California, Giovannoni said. It is also posted on the Web here
Listen to an Mp3 of this first recording
American researchers [...]
Nasa: High Res Shuttle Photo reveals Ipod
I love this picture. I wonder what play lists they have on their ipod?
Higher res version:
Fully automated Lego Rubik’s cube solver
Ah, sweet Lego. Is there nothing you can’t do?
Robotic Quadraped Amazes
I saw this amazing video yesterday from Boston Dynamics. Its a robotic packbot quadreped that can carry 340 pounds. Amazing stuff. Its incredibly stable and at times, eerily real. What do you think? Could you use one on the back 40?
