Photograph by DARPA In the video below, DARPA’s four-legged Cheetah robot has set a new land speed record for legged robots, reaching a top speed up 18 miles per hour (29 km/h). The previous record was 13.1 mph (21.08 km/h) set in 1989. The robot is part of DARPA’s Maximum Mobility and Manipulation…
Indy game development company Double Fine, makers of cult-classics such as: Psychonauts, Stacking, and Iron Brigade, have just achieved something remarkable. Some might call it… a game changer (*cues trombone). The Challenge: Games are expensive to make. Often, developers have to rely on external sources like publishers, investment firms and banks for…
Heart Stop Beating is an incredible 3-minute short film about two visionary doctors from the Texas Heart Institute who successfully replaced a dying man’s heart with a ‘continuous flow’ device, proving that life was possible without a heart beat. The film was directed and produced by Jeremiah Zagar, an Emmy-nominated director of In a…
My friend @Tonewise sent me the video below last night. It’s a clever PR stunt to promote the upcoming film ‘Chronicle’ (trailer also below). It’s about three high school students that start to develop superhuman powers. And we all know with great power comes great responsibility…. Things unsurprisingly start to go awry. Back to…
Neil deGrasse Tyson (born October 5, 1958) is an American astrophysicist, a science communicator, the Frederick P. Rose Director of the Hayden Planetarium at the Rose Center for Earth and Space, and a Research Associate in the Department of Astrophysics at the American Museum of Natural History. Since 2006 he has hosted the…
THE PRECIOUS BLUE MARBLE Photograph by NASA/NOAA/GSFC/Suomi NPP/VIIRS/Norman Kuring NASA has proclaimed this image the most amazing high definition image of Earth ever. To see the colossal-super-mega high-resolution image, click here (it’s 8000px x 8000px and 16.4mb). This ‘Blue Marble’ image of the Earth was taken from the VIIRS instrument aboard…
F-15E Strike Eagle in Afghanistan, Oct. 6, 2011 | Photograph by Tech. Sgt. Matt Hecht Like many official U.S. Departments, the United States Air Force has an active Flickr Account where they post images for the press and public’s viewing pleasure. With a library of 4,600+ photographs, there’s some really interesting shots published.…
THE INFINITY EDGE AQUARIUM Photograph via ZEROEDGE AQUARIUMS AND WATER FEATURES The ZeroEdge Aquarium by ZeroEdge Aquariums and Water Features is designed in such a way that the water overflows the surface and spills over all sides of the aquarium creating a “zero edge”. The overflowing water is so seamless that until…
At this year’s 2012 International CES (Consumer Electronics Show), LG has showcased their largest French Door refrigerator ever (at 31 cubic ft) and it has a gimmicky feature that’s already netted them a ‘Best of Innovations’ award at the show. From the makers that introduced the world to laundry dryers with steam comes a…
THE LIFE OF A TRADER Photograph by AP Photo/JIN LEE A trader works at his trading post on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on September 2, 2011 in New York. Note the big can of Arizona, looks like Arnold Palmer’s half lemonade, half iced tea to me! mmmmm delicious.…
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