Carbon Fiber Rotary Weaver
Admire this mind-bogglingly complex carbon fiber rotary weaver in action as it weaves the A-pillars for Lexus’s first supercar, the LFA. [Via Autoblog]
Category Archives: Technology
Remembering: The Amstrad PCW8256
After the ZX81 and BBC Micro, the last non-PC computer in my house growing up was Amstrad’s PCW8256. That’s somewhat appropriate given my recent review of Micro Men, which ended with ZX81 maker Clive Sinclair and BBC Micro maker Chris Currie bemoaning the way the market had been taken over by Amstrad’s Alan Sugar. The […]
ROPID Robot Jumps for Joy
Not only can ROPID (Robot and Rapid) jump, dance, and run, but the little fellah can do so at your command, turning his cute little head to listen to what you have to say before each of its actions. [Via Technabob]
40 years ago: And Lo, the net was born
Forty years ago today, the first message was sent over the Internet. And forty years ago today, somebody’s internet connection went down for the first time. The Internet as we know it has its origins in the Advanced Research Projects Agency, an American group set up in the late 1950s as part of the technology […]
Enabling Always-Available Input with Muscle-Computer Interfaces
Developed by researchers at Microsoft, this new muscle-computer interface system can be used to control electronic devices when your hands are full or busy doing something else. [Via TechEblog]
Ubuntu “Karmic Koala” 9.10: A Closer Look
Today, a new release of the popular free & open source operating system Ubuntu becomes available. This is release 9.10, code-named Karmic Koala. In the interest of full disclosure, I should mention that I could be a little biased, as I had a hand in the planning and development of the release. First, if you […]
Petman: BigDog gets a Master
Remember BigDog, that four-legged robotic mule built by Boston Dynamics? Well friends, now, more than a year later, BigDog’s creators have come up with a two-legged master for the beast, and his name is Petman. Apart from looking like a drunk man when walking, Petman, just like Bigdog, has the ability to keep its balance, […]
Seeper’s Awazing Interactive MultiTouch Sphere
Check out Seeper‘s amazing new interactive multiTouch sphere: Isn’t this thing amazing? I’d just love to see this kind of technology used for interactive learning exhibitions in planetariums or museums. [Via LikeCool]
Deal of the Century: Just 2 Cents a Byte! [PIC]
Wow, $0.02 a byte! What awesome deal! Considering this, the 4GB of RAM I currently have running in my box would only cost $85,899,345… and we’re not even taking inflation into account here!
Hulu to Move to Subscription Model in 2010
Well, the honeymoon couldn’t last forever. I have to admit, Hulu did seem too good to be true from the get-go. For this little family of three, living our days without cable were made a bit easier with the freedom of Hulu, especially during the first season of Legend of the Seeker. Um, wait. Did […]