An abridged history of removable data storage. Few left out formats, which I'm sure the geeks out there will pick up on! Made with After Effects, Maya and Photoshop. Jack Streat went and built himself a fully functional Lee Enfield sniper rifle out of LEGO Technics. And by 'fully functional' I mean the thing can accurately shoot LEGO blocks up to a couple feet. It's definitely not gonna make a terrorist's head explode or anything. Now I'm not saying you could do more damage with a Lincoln Log catapult, but I have eaten a couple LEGO bullets before with little to no damage (they passed just like corn except with a *tink* when they hit the bottom of the bowl). "Lego felt tip 110" printer connected to an Apple Mac. This is not mindstorms, designed/built/coded from scratch including analog motor electronics, sensors and printer driver, the USB interface uses a "wiring" board. Tiny spiders incite more fear and paranoia in humans than arguably any other insect (except @$&#! roaches). So, without fail, depraved and merciless humans frequently construct massive spiderbots capable of wreaking wanton destruction and paralyzing poor arachnophobes. Even though the annual Burning Man freak festival claims to enforce "rules that serve to protect the health, safety, and experience of the community at large," an eclectic group of eccentric masochists plans to unleash a Mondo Spider on the gathering's whimsical, unfettered revelers. The Mondo group first demonstrated its 8-legged project in 2006, and upgrades now allow a single captain to effectively steer "1,700 lbs of mechanical mayhem." Apparently, the contraption represents the "world's first walking electric vehicle," and will undoubtedly send hundreds of bohemians on hallucinogens scrambling for the med tents. Robots are obviously always awesome, but that spectacle alone will be worth the price of admission. Amateur anthropologists, robot lovers and hopeful participants will have to wait until August 30th to experience the inevitable chaos and hippie hilarity, though. We all know how rain can be boring and make us sad. For me personally, walking outside while it is raining is pretty hard experience. If you are one of such kind of people, maybe you should try the Rain Drum umbrella.
It is designed to bring in some colors and some funny sounds in your rainy day. This umbrella is designed by South Korean designer Dong Min Park. It is made to produce different drum-like sounds when rain drops fall on its surface. The only problem with this umbrella is that you can’t fold it so it is not so easy to travel with it via public transportation. What can you do when no one's got a phone to jam with you? Why, you can be a geeky one-man band, of course! Web developer Steffest (just one name, like Sting or Madonna) managed to do just that by strapping a couple of Android devices (possibly an Archos 5 and a HTC Desire), a couple of WinMo handhelds (looks like a HP iPAQ h1940 and a HTC Touch Diamond), and an iPod touch on top of a portable speaker. All this just for a forthcoming presentation on mobile cross development -- Steffest had to painstakingly write the same audio program "in Java for Android, in C# for Windows Mobile and in Objective-C for iPhone." Oh, and it doesn't just end there -- turns out this dude can also pluck tap away a good Neil Diamond classic on this five-way nerd-o-strummer. Get on board and check out the video after the break. Oh sure, you've seen your disgustingly hairy cousin solve a Rubik's Cube in 3 minutes and 13.4 seconds, and we've seen quite a few sophisticated robots do it in far less time. But in the latest episode of "Yes, Droid Really Does," we've got Motorola's darling solving a Lego-encased Cube in just over 24 seconds. Let's recap: a Droid, a Mindstorms NXT monstrosity, a Rubik's Cube and faux techno. Is there any chance you aren't clicking through to watch this video? One can never picture sharks as these tender loving creatures thanks to the Hollywood hangover! Maybe this is why I have a mental block for the Shark Mouse Concept. The designers are convincing in their presentation: recyclable thermoplast body, minimum contact with the surface for reduced friction, slender design and chic aesthetics…
Maybe I should picture this more as a Necklace CarpetShark than a Great White and get over my musophobia! Designers: Alireza Haji & Mahbod Ashraf A press release on Nintendo's Japanese website appears to confirm the company's next handheld console, temporarily named the "Nintendo 3DS," and said to include hardware and software that will enable "3D effects" without the need for special glasses. The console is stated to be backwards compatible with DS and DSi games and is expected to go on sale (in Japan, presumably) "during the fiscal year ending March 2011" -- so within the next year. The press release has no pictures or other information, and save for the fact that it appears as a file on Nintendo's website, there's no other official word about the new hardware.
There are a few dots to connect, however: 3D gaming is on the rise, and a few other companies have also experimented with head tracking as a way to implement 3D effects. Nintendo's own Satoru Iwata hasn't been impressed with 3D gaming in the past, but his issue is with the glasses, not the technology. "I have doubts whether people will be wearing glasses to play games at home," he said recently. We've also heard that the next handheld would have a "movement sensor" of some kind, so if Nintendo really has designed a head-tracking 3D solution, then maybe the console is ready to go. The press release, which you can read after the break in full, says we'll see more at E3, so stay tuned. Source: Joystiq The new Apple Ipad is showing its muscles in what it can do by demonstrating its "interactive magazine" feature. And ofcource, they had to talk about sex, and sex sells ofcource according to Apple. The video might not be super interresting but it's a clear demonstration as to what the Ipad can do.
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