| Japanese company Murata Manufacturing has created a robot that rides a bike without falling! The robot, tentatively named Murata Boy, has gyro sensors to detect velocity and inclination, an ultrasonic sensor to detect obstacles, and a shock sensor to detect rough surfaces. The picture shows the robot riding its bike down a thin balance beam. Link |
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| Ron Grant chooses a canvas unlike any other artists - he paints on tooth! After establishing his own dental lab 25 years ago, he became interested in painting on dental crowns. His first design was a painted molar for his mom. Now he's famous. http://www.rongrant.com/artist.asp (via Aberrant News) |
Next year, for the first time in nearly 100 years of having presidents looking somber in coins, the US Mint is trying something different: a new nickel with Jefferson half-smiling (really? That's a half-smile?). From the website: "It isn't a silly smile or a smirk, but a sense of optimism that I was trying to convey with the expression," says Jamie Franki, an associate professor of art at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte. His drawing was chosen out of 147 entries. |
| The Los Angeles Grim Society is an associaton of otherwise normal indiiduals who share the same morbid curiosity about the less savory aspects of the city of Los Angeles. Link One of their website's features is celebrity tombstones in local LA cemeteries. |
| Michael Brown (no, not the FEMA guy) and his team of astronomers who discovered the "10th" planet (yes, behind pluto) in our solar system said that the object has a moon. The new planet - if it is a planet, is dubbed Xena and the moon is now called Gabrielle after the popular TV series. Link |
Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have invented a technology that detects a digital camera and shoots a targeted beam of light to it. |
| TV Cream has worked out the top 100 nostalgic toys - you'll remember them if you're born before the 1980s. Link |
| Boodles Jewellers made this world's most expensive teabag. It took 3 months and was handcrafted using 280 diamonds. The price? £7,500 or about $13,000. Other things: most expensive bra and underwear: $15 million, cocktail drink: $26,000, shoes: $1.7 million. Wanna buy me something for Christmas? http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/quickies/msid-1234791.cms (via grow a brain) |
| Hitachi explains how new MP3 player hard drive technology gets around the paramagnetic effect (huh?) in a cute animation called "Get Perpendicular". Link |
| This ad showed soldiers descending from an airborn Boeing's Osprey helicopter onto a roof of a bombed out mosque. The caption said "It descends from the heavens. Ironically it unleashes hell." The ad ran twice in National Journal and Armed Forces Journal, before complaints caused it to be yanked. Link (via grow a brain) |
| The Internet has everything, including a website dedicated to old TVs. MZTV is the web's museum of television, and it has some pretty amazing collections of old, old TVs. Link (via Look At This ...) |
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