It’s a robot, it’s a tail, and it lets people around you know how you feel! It’s the Robotic Mood Tail! Why yell after people to let them know you’re angry when you can just show them your, er, tail swatting around in annoyance? [Via Engadget]
This handy Venn diagram lists and classifies certain class of crazy people and things they probably own. [Via Buzzfeed]
Do you know what is the difference between the principles of mass and weight? While the mass (kilograms) of an object is directly related to how much matter this object has, its weight (newtons) is associated to how strongly gravity pulls on it. So while the mass of something will remain the same whether it’s […]
By Casey Lynn Contributing Writer, [GAS] Next week’s episode of The Big Bang Theory, titled “The Creepy Candy Coating Corollary,” guest stars Wil Wheaton. He was tweeting and blogging about it while shooting, which was pretty amusing/informative, and the episode is already up in the queue! CBS just posted the promo on YouTube: The first […]
A brief look into the lives of the Google Street View dudes.
At times Wikipedia can seem like the most amazing thing ever, or the dumbest idea imaginable. The same can be said of a new device which puts the entirety of Wikipedia into your pocket. The WikiReader is a $99 handheld device which contains what’s effectively a copy of the entire website (thought it is “limited” […]
Before the iPhone went gangbusters, it could be argued that the smartphones of choice were likely the Blackberry and Palm. Without touch screens, for the most part, these initial mobile pioneers taught us that, indeed, we could use phones for anything and everything. But for many people, the iPhone didn’t just level the playing field, […]
Made by Mike Galloway, this amazing custom fiber optic starfield ceiling features over 250 stars with a natural twinkle effect. Check it out: I initially attempted to recreate constellations, but the perfectionist in me made this a daunting task. If I put up Ursa Minor, it would have to be in proper scale and relation […]
David Hanson’s robot faces look and act like yours: They recognize and respond to emotion, and make expressions of their own. In the following video, you’ll see an “emotional” live demo of the Einstein robot, which offers a peek at a future where robots could truly mimic humans.
Remote controlled bugs buzz off, followed by a picture that looked straight out of a cyberpunk novel, a beetle with a remarkable bit of tech strapped to its head. Well, it turns out that the future (for those of us who’ve ever imagined a future in which people can control cyborg beetles by using a […]