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2012 | Feb 01
Microcopter Swarm
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So many other people have gone on about this already that it seems kindof redundant... ...”
| Jan 31
Tilt-Shift Reality
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If you look for long enough, you will find yourself. Are you happy? Hard to ...”
People flying in New York
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The weird thing about this, is that it looks completely normal and natural. It looks ...”
27 25
Snouty Nosed Shrew-Bot
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(from)
Nice bit or biomimicry.
Does my head in how easy it is to anthropomporhise these things. ...”
3D Printed Vinyl
“
That's pretty cool... low-fi Fisher-Price format apparently.
I remember reading somewhere that you could theoretically ...”
24 21
Baby Creep-Bot
“That's another thing Star-Trek didn't predict - how incredibly creepy (some) robots would be.
(via)
It's ...”
19 13 09 07 06 03 01
3D Nano-Printing
“Small Ted Talk
The thing that took my head off about this isn't the printer that ...”
| 2011 | Dec 27 22
3D Printed Kite
“Amazing
Three Cubes Colliding from Jimandtonic on Vimeo.
3D Printed bits + aerospace fabric + A LOT ...”
17 14 08
The End of Aptera: The difference between Open and Closed source
“
I always said that these should be open-source, materials locally-sourced, with de-coupled sub-systems...
... but it ...”
03
Flying Robo-Builders
“Wow, they actually did it:
I expected the robots to be hyper-self-conscious about the other robots ...”
01 | Nov 25
Single Iteration Learning
“Behold, Mice:
The first one is the learning round, the 2nd is the "learned" round. When ...”
20
The Pepper Spray Incident
“
The protester response:
(from)
The woman being given the Silent Treatment being the university chancellor who ordered ...”
15 14
Microcopter's-Eye-View of Protest
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It's a big protest in Poland - I don't think the drone is a police ...”
13
Thought Controlled Siri
“Top Video :)
Cool hack (maybe); wonderfully untogether video - starting with describing Josh's "crude" brain ...”
09 05 02 01 | Oct 24 20 16
Siri
“I don't really want to go on about this, because I'm against Apple on principle, ...”
15 13 12 08 07 | Sep 30 22 20
Dancing Quadrocopters
“
via
That would be fairly impressive if it actually had people controlling them.... but they're doing ...”
18 16 13 11
Lethal Loitering Munition
“
Erm... what the fuck is that music? It sounds like 1950s propaganda music, or the ...”
04
When Wings Take Dream
“This is the coolest thing I have ever seen
(via)
It's a real hat-wearing thing where you ...”
03 01 | Aug 31
Little Baby Planelet
“It flys towards lights
Which is pretty cool - although I suspect you could just get ...”
23 20 16 14 07 06
Geeks Without Frontiers
“Cool
If this does what I think it does, it will "become" the internet... especially if ...”
04
Metropolis
“This is the coolest thing I have ever seen
via
It has 1200 cars.”
| Jul 29 28 24 23
Mind Controlled Scaletric
“B-Reel Performs Mind Tricks from B-Reel & B-Reel Films on Vimeo.
from
I quite like the ...”
21
Robots do Manson
“
via
Mind you, what gets called "robot" these days is getting broader and broader. The ...”
18 16 15
MASSIVE Star Wars Game Screen
“
K for cool.
That's what I want... one of those... but I want a cylindrical one ...”
Singing Sex Toy
“Is there nothing the internet can't do?
from
”
11 05
When Bots Fuck Up
“Genius
via
Now I know I've used examples of these before as marvelous accomplishments etc... but... maybe ...”
04
The Face Twitching Guy Discovers Laser-beams
“One of my favs from about 3 years ago...
Man's a genius. Anway - he's done ...”
02
Favela Chic Meets DIY Weaponry
“
The thing about high-tech weapons, is that once you get the vitamin parts out of ...”
| Jun 28 25 22
Gerbiling
“Oh my God... you finally really did it.YOU MANIACS!
From
There's hardly anything Australians can't do. ...”
18 17 15
Edible RFIDs
“This one is from a while back... where someone on my twitter feed said that ...”
14 12 04
Some Robots. Doing Stuff
“
from
also from
positioning systems I - falling objects from pe lang on Vimeo.
from
Volksrobot also worth a ...”
03
You cannot own free speech
“So anyway. I was watching that John Perry Barlow on the internets the other day ...”
01 | May 28 26 22
Bliss it was 2.0
“There's this post over here, about the EU protests... the Spanish Revolution (which sounds dead ...”
21 19
Aussie-Copter
“This is the coolest thing I've ever seen
Not just because it's a guy flying a ...”
18 16
Self Teaching Kitchen Bot
“
from”
14 13
Inverse-Pendulum Quadracopter
“This is pretty amazing
This is the difference between "memory" systems (like CNC) and sensor-controlled systems. ...”
10 09 07 05 | Apr 29
On Machine Genotype, Phenotype
“Phenotype is the design, Genotype is code.
Something in the nature of machine/techno-memetics (that is ...”
28
One for the homeopaths
“Worth it just for the slomo water drops at the beggining.
Observable phenomena is observable phenomena... ...”
27 26 19
Mental Drilly Thing
“
From this, which on my computer is about 2 inches wide and 40 ft ...”
16 12 10
Look Mr Moreland! I'm a Bird!
“
Kinect meet AR-Drone. AR-Drone; Kinect.
In the future we'll have robots that vacuum your carpet when ...”
09
How to start fires in Ikea
“
For when civilisation breaks down completely and your tribe makes the very sound decision to ...”
07
360 degree iPhone Lens
“This looks pretty neat
Another example of someone hitting the ground running with Kickstarter... looking suspiciously ...”
06 | Mar 23 17 14
Mixtures of Man Alive
“Or virtual
Another Kinect spinoff - which is fairly cool - Microsoft have accidentally created a ...”
04
Mind Controlled iPad
“So obviously I was totally wrong about how popular I thought these things would be. ...”
03 02 | Feb | Jan 28
Premakes
“
Genius - there are loads of them.
What's mad about this, is the time difference is ...”
26 25 23 21 19
Sonic Art :: Inventables
“
(via)
Art. I like art. We should have more of it.
Speaking of which... check this out ...”
Kinect Robot
“
(via)
I bet Microsoft had no idea what they were letting out of the bag with ...”
18 17 13
Kinect Theremin
“
From
Can't help but notice that the new-found hardware memosphere keeps recreating inventions that were never ...”
Clinky Clonky Marble-Droppy Thing
“Thinking Machine *** Honourable Mention Prix Ars 2008 *** from Masahiro Miwa on Vimeo.
via
Interesting because ...”
11 02
LED Cube
“This is cool. It's like a 21stC Orac... albeit an early 21stC one... which isn't ...”
| 2010 | Dec 31 29 28
3D Printed Flute
“My
I'd kindof lost faith in this 3D stuff (the world is going to end before ...”
26 16 14 13 11
KinectoCopter
“Told you so
via
via
Little copter that can fly round the house making a noise like a ...”
09
Lego Antikythera
“This one's taken the loooooong way around
2000 year old Ancient Greek computer re-created in Lego
Elsewhere ...”
07
Fantastic Robo-flower things
“Oribotics from Matthew Gardiner on Vimeo.
Coming via Ponoko etc... fantastic robo-flowers from Aus, that ...”
04 03 | Nov 29
29-11, Year of Our Lord 2010
“So.
Wikileaks dropped another of its bombs. I'm going to hang-fire for a week or so ...”
24 23
OpenVizsla - Open Source Hardware
“USB Protocol Analyzer.
Which is pretty cool, because if there's one thing I hate with a ...”
19
I Am The One, Kinectotron
“Interactive Puppet Prototype with Xbox Kinect from Theo Watson on Vimeo.
I think Kinect is a ...”
17 16
Pseudo 3D TV
“I seem to recall old video-games using something like this
Probably best for Steam-Punk or Laser-Punk ...”
15 14
Holographic Decaf
“I don't even know what this is
I know exactly what that is - that's everything ...”
12 03 | Oct 31 28 16 15
Spherical Display
“ via
That's cool, but until they manage to turn the thing inside out so you ...”
14
Cellphone Space Cadet
“ from
Further to my theories about cellphones being detachable heads - there have been a ...”
13
Aussie Shop-Lifting UFO
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That is so cool I can hardly stand it - it's a 10 ft prototype ...”
10 09 | Sep | Aug 30 29 22 18 15
Piracy : The Nuclear Option
“So earlier on the twitters, I said
.twitter{background-color:#DDEEF6; border:1px solid #5599BB; padding:10px; margin-bottom:20px;}
Yea, whatever. If ACTA ...”
14 07
Regroup / Reflect
“So here it is 8/8 Year of Our Lord, 2010.
I'm hitting something of a psychic ...”
| Jul 31 30 24
The eventual arrival of predictable sci fi thingummies
“The first one being that robots can now be trusted (pretty much) to operate on ...”
22 17 16 07
Viral Prosthetics
“Ingenious
Motorized shoes - for people too lazy to walk, or people who are disabled... and ...”
06
The Library in the Sky
“This is fairly phenomenal
It's this guy who appears to have single-handedly created about ...”
04 02 | Jun 29 25 19 14
Golden Pedal Porsche
“I'm not entirely sure what this is, but I think it looks pretty cool
The wheels ...”
13 12
Roachbot
“Cockroach Controlled Mobile Robot (2006) - Garnet Hertz - High Resolution Video Overview from Garnet ...”
10
Augmented Shadow
“Augmented Shadow_document from Joon Y Moon on Vimeo.
Via”
09
Tim's Disruptive Technologies
“Ok, so that Tim Boucher, from timboucher.com was going on about disruptive technologies that are ...”
08 01
B: Buzzy thing
“
(via)
20 Cameras? I think the room is telling it what to do. Still. Quite impressive.”
| May 24 22
Tangential Interfaces
“Joseph's Glove of Many Colours
Eventually Waving Arms Around Interfaces will come of age, and you'll ...”
20 17 13
Cellphone Faced Androids
“Told you so
Little robot that reacts to SMS emoticons... among other things.
Pretty cool - ...”
07 | Apr 22 21 20 17 15
Androidal Xenophobia meets Eraserhead
“
Oh Berlimey.
This is supposed to encourage people to have kids - rather than be absolutely ...”
14 13 06 05 04
Androidal Xenophobia again
“
The closer it gets, the scarier it becomes.
from therawfeed.com”
01 | Mar 31 30
Like God must feel, when HE's holding a gun
“
(from)
So you see the problem he had now... the bigger your screen... the more interactive... ...”
29 28
Letter to MP over Digital Economy Bill
“So letter-to-MP-writing time again.
They always say "be polite", and sometimes I am, and sometimes I'm ...”
27
Atemporality : Turing machine
“
(from)
I used to congratulate myself on the fact that my generation was the first at ...”
25
Virtual Cow-tipping
“This is cool
Virtual cow-tipping etc.
It would kindof be better though if the screens were massive, ...”
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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 ...”
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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”
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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....
“
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.
“
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”
20 19 18 17 16 15 14
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
“
(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
“
From some people blowing their own trumpets so hard that their man-batter has gone up ...”
03 02
Inflateable backpack boat bike
“
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 ...”
25 24 23 22
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... ...”
26 24 23 21 20 18 17
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 ...”
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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 ...”
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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... ...”
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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
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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 ...”
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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. ...”
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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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