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2010 | Mar 11 10 09 08
Jovian Lava Lamp Syndrome
“This is actually fairly cool in a funny sort of way.
Someone's made a mechano centrifuge ...”
06
Reprap: The Ninja-like Cunning of the Bleedin Obvious
“
Further to my vague, nagging suspish, that the main use of repraps is printing other ...”
05 04 03
ACTA - My Submission on Enforcement in the Digital Environment
“According to recently leaked documents, New Zealand is a lone voice of sanity in the ...”
02 01 | Feb 28
Walking backwards through a mirror into the future
“Ok - this isn't a film review (far be it from me etc)... it's a ...”
26 25 24 22 20 19 18
Very Cinematic Waving-Arms-Around-Interface
“
(via)
Would be cool with 3D glasses, and projected onto the surface of a sphere that ...”
16 14
Bless. A Lego Segway
“
(via make)
A convergence of my favourite solution looking for a problem, and the medium where ...”
13
Through the Weave of The Dream
“TED
I don't buy it. Not any more - back in the days of Bush, when ...”
11 10 07
Shreddies
“Art grows best in the cracks of what you're not allowed to do. Always has. ...”
06 05 03
Phone-Brained Lego Rubiks Cube Doer
“
(via)
I've been ranting on about this quietly to myself for so long not that to ...”
Is it because I is White?
“Forget about Favela Chic, try some Favela Punk.
Both appalling and riveting, as any good punk ...”
01 | Jan 27 26 25 22 20 17 15 13 11
Homunculus
“Scary stop-motion animation. Reminds me of the eye-hand monster off Pan's Labyrinth.
via”
06 05 04 03
Star Wars Fan-Ficcery Revisted
“This is a weird one:
I.M.P.S. The Relentless Chapter 2 from Blacksheep Productions on Vimeo.
It's a ...”
02
Brazilian Absynthe Clock
“
From the wonderful Hacked Gadgets”
01 | 2009 | Dec 31
Switching itself off box
“
from”
30 28 27 26 21 19 17 16 15
Paper Theo Jansen Variant
“
(via)
I kindof collect Theo Jansen machines... here's another one, which overlaps with this other vague ...”
14
Micro-Coggery
“
Tiny cogs being turned by bacteria.
as in An individual bacterium’s motion appears random. However, at ...”
11 10 09 08
Gathering Clouds of Top-Down Control
“Part of the reason why I've been off... line, for the last month or so ...”
07 06
The Future of Advertising - A Retrospective
“This is cool
Elio from Rob Diaz on Vimeo. via Notcot.org
And could have made quite a ...”
05
Androidal Xenophobia : Comin' down in 3-part harmony
“There used to be a Bee Gees tribute band called the Heebee Geebees...
(via)
... but that's ...”
03 02 | Nov 27
Objectification
“This has been around for a couple of days - just got around to looking ...”
22
Flatland Revisited #3
“
A truly impressive bit of stop-animation from the NZ Book Council entitled "Where Books Come ...”
20 19
Spookybots, pretending to be doing something useful
“
Industrial robots from Japan. They're only doing this stuff because that bloke is watching them.
Still ...”
18 16
Lets all go blow our minds in Toyland
“Genius
(fae)
A proper artist apparently : Walter Wick. Really good art, like really good hallucinations generally, ...”
15
Everything as Interface
“Interesting use of RFID to control a stereo
(via)
In which roteno.com creates the idea of Imperceptible ...”
11 10
Kubrickesque spookybot
“I quite like this:
(from)
It looks like a cross between Stanly Kubrick Sci-Fi (and a whole ...”
09 08
Sound Sculpture
“
(from)
From curiosity to terror in slightly under a minute.
Well, for me anyway. It starts of ...”
05
P2P Banking
“Well as you may have gathered by now, I'm gunning for the banks. In 2006 ...”
04 01
Analogue Link-Rot
“Eventually everything gets digitised
I've been looking for this on youtube for years - and I ...”
| Oct 31 27
LegLab. Home of the Sissybots
“Youtube recommended this video for me:
I think the stages of robotic adoption will be:
1) WTF? ...”
25
iPhone as car controller
“The law's just been passed in NZ making it illegal to use the phone while ...”
22
Shifty O'Slybot
“Well it doesn't have that andriodal-xenophobia thing like so many of them do, but I ...”
21
SurfaceScapes : W.A.A.I evolveth a little further
“Now I hate interfaces where you have to wave your arms around as much as ...”
20 19 16
Virtual reality for Mice
“
Something to do with neuroscience apparently. It's not rocket surgery.”
15
More on Robotic Muscles
“Someone sent me this earlier (cool, I love being sent stuff)
Which is possibly the weirdest ...”
14
Reprap : New Generation
“.... aaaaaand, here it is:
Mendel, a new generation of Repraps... with numerous advantages of the ...”
Biomimetic Deployable Structures
“This is interesting...
Making 3D objects from 2D surfaces is something I keep coming back ...”
13 12 10 07 06 05
Amazing compositing software
“
from via mashable
You could so make a gazillion dollars out of this by selling it ...”
04 03 01
Tennis Ball Catching Robot
“
(from)
You could team it up with one of these and they'd live happily ever after.
A ...”
| Sep 30
The future of War etc.
“
(fae)”
29
Look a Yonderrrrr....
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An inside out advertising crap-sandwich, with the crap on the outside and the genius in ...”
28 27 26 25
And the eyes... have it #2
“Bionic Eye: Augmented iPhone Awesomeness in App Store gusheth Gadget Lab at Wired.
Is that impressive? ...”
24
Dorkmobiles revisited
“
(from)
Another solution to a problem that nobody has.
What is it with these people? How ...”
And the eyes... have it.
“This one goes out the other side of weird. Almost:
(boing boing)
As far as I can ...”
23
A Holy Crap moment courtesy of Microsoft
“Now I hate Microsoft as much as the next man. They invented Internet Explorer, which ...”
What it's like to fall out of a spaceship.
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Amateur astronauts etc... the first (according to this, which is a great site) ever high-def ...”
19 17 16 14
Tall Video
“
Ramona Falls - Clover (9:16 edition) from blair neal on Vimeo.
Via the eternally marvelous notcot.org”
12 11 10
Oh Great. A Walking Vacuum Cleaner Injured Zombie Dog
“
(fae)
Looks like a zombie dog that's trying to walk after it's had it's feet gnawed ...”
Flatland : Into the 4th Dimension
“A fantastic video teaser for Gestalten’s upcoming book, Papercraft: Design and Art with Paper...
function getSource() ...”
07 06 05
Open-Source is the Agincourt-Inside
“Ok, that came out wrong...
I meant... you know, like "Intel Inside"? And Agincourt was ...”
04 03 02 01
Artificial Paradise
“
(via)
Artificial Paradise, inc est un court métrage expérimental de Jean-Paul Frenay. Un jeune réalisateur et ...”
| Aug 30 29 28
Androidal Home Automation
“Android being the Open-Source iPhone alternative. You don't have the App(le)-Police telling you what you ...”
Spooky LOL bot
“
Enter the URL ”
27 26
Lego Sudoku Doer
“I can't quite believe that someone's used a Lego-Mindstorms brain to do OCR
from From ...”
24
Warbots, Lovebots
“A new Warbot, which obviously (because they always do) also has "search and rescue" potential... ...”
23
Sticky Light
“This again:
Interactive Laser from Tokyo”
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Table-Top Waving-Arms-About-Interface
“This is quite neat, even though I think WAAIs are a physiotherapists dream come true.
(from ...”
Delta Robots
“I've been seeing these around for a while now... uber-fast inverted pyramid robots... Delta Robots.
as ...”
13
Anthropomimetic Machines
“New word : things that mimic humans : Anthropomimetic
This is neat - in a slightly ...”
12
An interesting take on desktop CNC
“I quite like the idea of a cnc machine that's smaller than the thing it's ...”
10 09 07
From the Garden of Earthly Delights #2
“Further to the utterly fantastic video here.
People seem to be having a fair crack at ...”
iPhone as controller for everything #2
“One of my favourite concepts is the increasingly detachable-cephalic nature of the iPhone... it's basically ...”
06
Stars in Jars: The relativity of High-Magic
“A couple of things turned up recently... one was this:
Touchable holography - which I saw ...”
04
Interactive Laser from Tokyo
“
(via)
from Daito Manabe who has a lot of amazing stuff on his site - including ...”
Like God must feel when he's holding a gun
“
(from altnytterfarlig.tumblr.com)
+
"Iraqi Freedom Minute"?
Really? Is that really what you honestly believe?
Is it possible for an ...”
02 01 | Jul 31
High Sorcery and Frozen Light
“There's this cliche that buzzes around the place (breathlessly repeated) "advanced technology is indistinguishable from ...”
30
Steampunk Emo Robo-band from Scotland
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(fae)
Cybraphon.
Plays happy music when loads of people are looking at it on the internet, gets ...”
Uber-dexterous robot hands
“Ok, you're scaring me now:
from : via botjunkie.com
From the Ishikawa Komuro Laboratory, University of Tokyo.
I ...”
29 28
Evolution Accelerator
“This is one I've had in the back of my mind for a while... a ...”
27
Baseballbots
“
Yea, ok. That is actually pretty clever.
Useful? Well... who cares?
Back in the (very) early days ...”
24
Beatbot 2009
“Fantastic bit of lateral thinking here.
A little robot that sneaks up to bottles and plays ...”
23 22 20
Douglas Rushkoff on Open-Source Money
“The more I listen to this guy, the more interesting he becomes.
”
19 17 16 13 11
Tour de France Chalkbot
“
via
Grafittibots. I can see this going very very badly wrong.
”
The Thinking Man's Einstein
“
A robot using what looks suspiciously like Genetic Algorithms to learn how to make facial ...”
09 08 07
Between the cracks #2
“
One line leads to another...
Parody etc. All bets are off.
”
06
Nippy little tanklet for the Missus
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From some people blowing their own trumpets so hard that their man-batter has gone up ...”
03 02
Inflateable backpack boat bike
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From Italy, viaboing boing
Anything inflatable is automatically great. This one's also quite cool because you ...”
| Jun 29 26
When Waving Your Arms About Isn't Enough
“WAAI - Waving Arms About Interface, as popularized by Minority Report with Tom Cruise (who ...”
Musical UFOs
“
Dante Bucci - Fanfare. Amazing.”
Little Baby Stovelets
“I think these are quite cool
Little camp stoves made from empty beer cans, or coke ...”
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R2D2's Dirty Little Secret
“From the wrong side of the tracks : Rare footage of his Grandmother, a cleaner:
from ...”
20 18 16
Face Gestures
“Brilliant
From Opera etc, who are one of my browsers of choice. They're the Ferrari of ...”
15 14 13
Rat Ghosts; Meat Machines
“This is the weirdest thing I've seen today
(from)
It's a little robot controlled by rat-brain neurons ...”
The Blurred Crusade : Onion skin layers of simulation
“I can't figure out if these guys are being real weapons dealers, or war-porn TV ...”
Well, how about some Zombies?
“Almost a WAAI (Waving Arms Around Interface)... but not quite.
Fairly impressive, and also fairly tough-on-your-back, ...”
12 11
The Transitional Web
“Bruce Sterling talking about ideas surrounding the fact that the web as we know it, ...”
10 09
Open Sourced Predation
“
(from)
Chris Anderson who has a NASA hat, talking about UAVs that he makes.
This is ...”
08
The Fine Art of Falling
“Don't walk before you can run etc:
”
01 | May 31 30
Yet another car that looks like a teapot
“
This one's solved the problem of "getting out of the car" by making the entire ...”
29
Another Holy Crap moment, courtesy of Google
“So much will have been written about this in the time that it takes to ...”
28 27
Accelerating RepRappery
“
(from)
"The experimental four-dimensional GCode interpreter is now five-dimensional. Four dimensions are so three weeks ago... ...”
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Hasslebots : The Milkers of Human Kindness
“Don't push your luck sunshine.
Another one of those robots that gets from A to B ...”
13
LittleBits : Electronic Lego
“I think this is an amazingly good idea.
"littleBits is an opensource library of discrete electronic ...”
12 09 08
Learning to fly before you can walk
“Robotic helicopter teaches itself how to fly aerobatics
programming these machines to perform complex aerobatics is ...”
07
Walking Car Robot Thing
“This is cool...
and if the various talks in the background of the other videos are ...”
Thor Hammers
“Oh Dear God yes, Thor Hammers:
That's what I'm talking about. What could possibly go wrong?
And ...”
06 05 04 02 | Apr 30
When high heels are not enough : Horse Leg Stilts
“
from www.technovelgy.com”
Post Post Modern Echoes : Mon Oncle
“One of my favorite concepts is that anything that turns up in a Science Fiction ...”
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Missing Links
“In some ways things are easy to predict... we're just waiting for pieces of the ...”
18
Jumping Jello
“Usually I'm not that into proprietary-gadget porn, especially if it costs $9000, but this showreel ...”
Another useful cruise-missile-for-the-people component
“And useful for a million other things besides I suspect
It's got a direction cosine estimator ...”
17 16
Pulling stuff to bits videos
“Seems to be a bit of a thing... especially (unsurprisingly) on www.hackaday.com... videos of "new ...”
14 13 11
Androidal Xenophobia : Maybe it's all in the eyes
“
The Bjork one is significantly less creepy for some reason - similar to that... err... ...”
Emergent Morality #2 : Set thine information free
“My mum was going through some old (very old) photographs the other day, and she ...”
10
Open-Sourced 3D Printer Consumables
“This is what we like.
"A University of Washington engineering professor has come up with a ...”
09
Lego CNC
“
It would be truly tragic on all sorts of levels if someone managed to make ...”
Emergent Morality #1: thou shalt not impede information flow
“Morality. What's it for? It's rubbish isn't it. It's old people telling you what to ...”
08 07
Threads : Musings on Crowd-Sourced Evolution
“One of the things about blogs, is that as time goes by, the navigation needs ...”
06
Androidal Xenophobia
“Being the condition that hasn't quite made itself apparent yet (but it will), by which ...”
05
Urls for things : Dynamic wine labels
“This is quite cool... or kindof a taste of things to come maybe
from
It's a QR ...”
03 02
One Block Off The Grid
“This is possibly quite a neat idea
It's a kindof consumer-union for would be solar-buyers. They ...”
Eureka machine
“"'Eureka machine' puts scientists in the shade by working out laws of nature
The machine, which ...”
01
Warehouse bots
“I used to work in a Nike warehouse as it happens. I used to do ...”
| Mar 31
Nice Synthetic Bio Intro Vid
“
These people are from the future: I have no idea what any of them ...”
20
Oxygen Plants
“This is cool
At least partly because I am truly madly and deeply in love ...”
Man Eating Walking Flower
“
"Why?" is not a question.
Suddenly everything is scary
Flower-Feather
We will never admit that The Web ...”
Silent Running Revisted
“One of my favourite concepts: "in the end, everything comes true... but not usually in ...”
19 18
Electric Planelets
“This is pretty cool - a glider that's been turned into an electric plane.
(from : ...”
17
Homopolar Motors
“I'm not sure that these are good for, but there's a whole mass of ...”
16
Cool Wind Generator Design
“
$700 AUS... now that's getting somewhere. It looks as though it uses the whole roof ...”
Youtube: Something needs to be done
“So when I wrote the last post, I went looking for the clip where Jeremy ...”
Ecotricity's wind-powered sports car
“A while back I went on about Jeremy Clarkson's review of a Tesla... which he ...”
14 13 12
How to screw your way from A to B
“1926 style.
This is pretty cool... A shame in a way we're heading into a period ...”
11
Android : Emergent Morality : Precursor #2
“I'm interested in Emergent Morality... of this thing that we're building - The Internet: A ...”
Theo Jansen meets Segway (on a very dark night indeed)
“
from
This is a classic example of what I'm always going on about... about what I ...”
The Mother of all Funk Chords
“Ok, I know this just came of Reddit etc - but this is cool
Someone's flipped ...”
10 09 07
Kindle Schmindle #2
“Ok, I think I've figured out Kindles. Why people buy them I mean. It's ...”
Neo-Paleofuturism : The Waving Arms Around Interface
“So obviously the other thing that I find really irritating about Minority Report is the ...”
First Person Movie Stars
“I read a story about this back in the 70s I think. About Movie ...”
03
Life through the eyes of a remote exoskeleton
“So obviously I'm interested in this partly because it's made out of Lego and has ...”
01
How to make a Vacuum Tube
“I find this absolutely fascinating to watch for some reason.
Arthur C Clarke's laws of ...”
| Feb 28 27
Reprap Map
“
A couple of things I find interesting about this - one the proliferation... they've really ...”
26
Mass Innovation
“
From http://www.usnowfilm.com/, which is a pretty cool site I think... which is to say, it's ...”
Geeks from the future
“This is what life is going to be like in the future:
Or was at some ...”
Literal Videos
“An unexpected seam of gold in the remix culture: Yet another way to take the ...”
25
Walky Legoey Connect-a-Bot Thing
“
You plug the bits together, show it how to move by wiggling its legs etc... ...”
24 23 22
DIY 3D Animations
“This is pretty cool / funny : www.xtranormal.com.
It's a DIY 3D Animated movie maker... where ...”
Emergent Morality : Backstory
“Here's an excellent talk by Umair Haque, of whom I'm a bit of a fan. ...”
21 20
Wall Climbing Robots
“This turned up recently
I've had my eye on wall-climbing robots for a while, partly because ...”
17
Machine Generations
“
An interesting talk from Juan Enriquez who coins what I think is a key concept ...”
More Microbots
“Tiny Motor
From a cellphone I think. I found one about this size in a broken ...”
16 15
The Flying Elephants Graveyard
“View Larger Map
Click through to google for the full effect etc.”
14
Air Muscles
“These are cool because they're fast, strong and quiet. Not sure how small they can ...”
Siftables
“This is quite a neat idea... that could go in about a million different directions ...”
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We want the moon, and we want it now
“
Open Source Space Travel.”
03
Collisions of Art and Wind
“These are pretty cool - if you click through to youtube and look at related ...”
DIY Algae Farm
“This is the future:
from
Absolutely - I know this beyond a shadow of a doubt because ...”
02
Jesus the Knife Guy
“Ok. This isn't Jesus the Knife Guy - it's a guy showing you how to ...”
01
Fablabbery
“An interesting talk on fab-labbing from Neil Gershenfeld here:
Hot on the heels (give or ...”
Memetic Addiction
“Do your belief-systems serve you or do you serve them?
That quote comes from someone, somewhere, ...”
| Jan 31 26
On Mechanical Anthropomorphism
“
There's something strange in the human condition that allows us to anthropomorphise pretty much anything ...”
25
Don't know what it is, but it fits on here, like this:
“
Lastly and slightly differently, self-assembling water-borne robots
Aquatic bristlebots which are essentially simulating molecular behaviour at ...”
24 23
Printable Motors
“
from : The Clanking Replicator Blog
Which was concieved in the hope of radically reducing ...”
You don't have to be a rocket scientist
“
Echos of everything; the toys, the weapons, the impossibility of information ownership, the unstoppable power ...”
20 17 15 14
Online identities escaping into actual reality.
“
An interesting video of the process required for making 3D prints of World of Warcraft ...”
13 12 11 09
The New Empires of Intelligence
“Ok, that was the bad news, now the reasons why I think DIYbio is probably ...”
07
Solutions looking for problems #24342
“For the last 15 years or so, I've been going round telling people that in ...”
06
Replication nightmares revisited.
“A while back I went on about this sci-fi story here - which is a ...”
05 04
Balloonacy
“
Hunt and Gather
From William Lamson. Genius.”
Genetic Algorithms and Evolution
“I spent all day to day tinkering with the genetic algorithm software I wrote yesterday. ...”
03
Genetic Algorithms explained...
“There's a really good example/explanation of genetic algorithms over here
These are the things that were ...”
The Exploding Banana Face Guy
“
Who is probably mates/enemies with The Face Twitching Guy
I kindof know how he feels though. ...”
02 01 | 2008 | Dec 31 30 29 26 22
SSSD - Seriously Stupid Systems Design : Nuke Power
“So the nuke shill-industry comes clanking into town again, like the moth-eaten circus of ...”
21
Anti-Memetic Poison
“I found this arty thing today that I thought was utter genius... and was going ...”
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Robot Danceathon
“It's like Dancing with the Stars cross with Robot Wars. Probably.
”
02 | Nov 29
Perpetual Motion Machines : the new alchemy
“
The subcultures behind these are actually fairly massive - describing themselves as "overunity engineers" - ...”
28
Rubik's Cube insanity
“Ok, so someone invents a Rubik's Cube (Rubik) and a couple of years later they're ...”
25
Hackability
“This is a neat thing from last year... and every-inch, a solution looking for a ...”
24 23
Shift Happens
“One day this will be a quaint cultural icon
”
Throwies
“An oldy but a goody
Which is just beautiful - not just for the way it ...”
Bristlebots
“Someone's discovered that if you attach a vibrator to a sawn-off toothbrush, it scurries about ...”
22
The face twitching guy.
“
Face-twitching to music. Genius.”
Lego Rubik's Cube Solvers. A new type of Evolution
“The crab-router might even be a better platform for rep-rapping than the original rep-rapper. It ...”
Spooky face-making thing
“You don't believe me do you?
How about this combined with the 3D laser scanner thing ...”
Vacuum Cleaner with gun
“
Anyone who's lived with an airsoft gun will know that you wind up finding ...”
21
Starting in the middle
“For me it started here : http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~damian/papers/HTML/Perligata.html.
How many years ago now? Seven? Ten? I can't ...”
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