Festo, a company we’ve featured here on [GaS] in the past for their extraordinary work on various forms of strange robotic organisms, is back with a new video showcasing their latest toy: A bionic bird that can take-off, fly, and land just like a real bird. Check it out! [Via Toxel]
For today’s edition of Deal of the Day, Amazon has a 1-year subscribtion to the Maximum PC magazine for just $7.48! That’s 93% Off the magazine’s usual retail price of $107.88. Designed for the rabid PC hobbyist, Maximum PC brings tons of news and reviews written in an irreverent, edgy style. Full disclosure is the [...]
I’m making a large batch of these first thing tomorrow morning… and then I’m gonna it ‘em all… my preciousessss! [Source + Recipe]
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Last week, William ‘Tiberius’ Shatner turned 80, and today, Leonard Nimoy (Spock) reaches the same venerable age! Leonard Simon Nimoy (pronounced /ˈniːmɔɪ/, NEE-moy; born March 26, 1931) is an American actor, film director, poet, musician and photographer. Nimoy’s most famous role is that of Spock in the original Star Trek series 1966–1969, multiple films, television [...]
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Yesterday evening, Montreal,QC-based Geeks are Sexy reader Nicolas sent in some very special pictures of his very beautiful (and very pregnant!) girlfriend. Normally, we wouldn’t post those on the site, but in this case, we’ll make an exception. You see, Nicolas’s spouse is a zombie, and from the look of it, she’s about to give [...]
Meghan Hetrick is the creative genius behind these Dangerous Divas miniature watercolor covers. The sketchcard artist recently debuted her line of Marvel minis (by Rittenhouse Press) and is quickly rising in the comic art ranks. At 2.5 x 3.5 inches, the museum quality works are pint-sized but impressive. Check out the full gallery on Meghan’s [...]
Professor Miklós Zrínyi of Semmelweiss University in Budapest, Hungary, has invented a magnetic gel which can be shaped in various forms and then moved using magnetism. Soft magnetic materials like this one could be used for artificial muscles in robots, or to replace rigid machine components, such as valves. Other teams are also working on [...]
Hey old school video games geeks! Can you identify all games featured in this video? [Source: BoingBoing]
If you guys haven’t discovered YouTube star MeekaKitty yet, you’re in for a treat. Her latest music vid, “Navi’s Song (Hey, Listen!)” was just released this week. Check it out below, as well as her Star Trek Girl vid.
Badminton matches would be oh so much more entertaining that way, don’t you agree?
