Designed by engineers at Kagawa University in Japan, this creepy robotic mouth simulates the human voice by using an air pump, artificial vocal chords, a nasal cavity, a resonance tube, and a microphone. Check it out: Oh, and naturally, it didn’t take very long before people on youtube used the footage to create some pretty […]
You’ve probably heard by now about the school district in Pennsylvania that was using webcams in school-issued laptops to spy on students. And they might never have known except for one observant administrator who saw a student engaging in behavior mistaken for pill-popping and confronted him – at which point it was revealed that those […]
185 voices from 12 countries join a choir that spans the globe: “Lux Aurumque,” composed and conducted by Eric Whitacre, merges hundreds of tracks individually recorded and posted to YouTube. It’s an astonishing illustration of how technology can connect us. [Via Ted]
I can’t decide which part of this awesome shirt design “La Disputa Del Cyborgio” blows my mind more… The Mega Man dude on top, the choir of T1 angels, Robocop as Mary Magdalene or Steven Hawking as Robo-Jesus. [La Disputa Del Cyborgio]
So, can’t stand the view of the wall from your windowless office? Wish you could see something else than a featureless landscape from your drab bedroom? Enters Winscape: Because waking up in the same place every morning is just too boring. Winscape features include: Custom Winscape software with configurable screen parameters Two HD plasma displays […]
This is Samsung’s awesome new viral video promoting their brand new line of 3D TVs. The ad takes a second look at some details you might have missed when looking at some of the world’s most popular paintings. Check it out: [Via Geekologie]
At TEDxNASA, Dennis Hong introduces seven award-winnning, all-terrain robots — like the humanoid, soccer-playing DARwIn and the cliff-gripping CLIMBeR — all built by his team at RoMeLa, Virginia Tech. Watch to the end to hear the five creative secrets to his lab’s incredible technical success.
If you’re a non-American waiting for the iPad, make yourself comfortable: the international release has been delayed for a month. The official reason for the delay is that US demand has been so much higher than expected that it will take time to get extra stock ready for non-US orders. Apple reports that it delivered […]
It could already be said the Internet is multi-dimensional given how hyperlinks replacing linear text made up the heart of the World Wide Web. But now an Intel representative is predicting a 3D internet within five years. The comments come from Sean Koehl, a man with the somewhat awesome job title of “technology evangelist” for […]
By Jimmy Rogers (@me) Contributing Writer, [GAS] By now, everyone and their mother has heard of nanotechnology and how it is either going to save us or obliterate us in a sea of gray goo. What exactly IS it, though? Well like microbiology, the field is too vast to describe effectively beyond “things happening on […]