Monday, April 23, 2007
Friday, April 20, 2007
The End of a 1400-Year-Old Business
"The world's oldest continuously operating family business ended its impressive run last year. Japanese temple builder Kongo Gumi, in operation under the founders' descendants since 578, succumbed to excess debt and an unfavorable business climate in 2006." More
Wednesday, April 18, 2007
Wide Screen TV Watch
China creates first artificial snow in Tibet
"China has created artificial snow for the first time in Tibet, Xinhua news agency reported on Wednesday, months after experts warned of melting glaciers and drought in the Himalayan region. The Tibet meteorological station had performed a "successful artificial snowfall operation" last week in northern Tibet, about 4,500 meters above sea level, the agency said." More
Labels: isitreal, science, seemslikemagic
Tuesday, April 17, 2007
Robot Employed as Sex Club Tout
"Robots can get away with things that humans cannot. In the Minami area of Osaka, for example, a humanoid robot dressed in a “sailor suit” high school uniform now works the street as a tout for an adult information center that navigates potential customers to local sex clubs. Humans in Osaka are prohibited by law from engaging in such nefarious activity." More
Monday, April 16, 2007
Drum Machine in Bangalore
Lace Chain Link Fence
Pen with Paper Built In
Friday, April 13, 2007
Thursday, April 12, 2007
Perpetual Tumbleweed
Wednesday, April 11, 2007
pico: Quite possibly the world's smallest robot.
0.5 inch / 12.5 mm on a side
0.125 cubic inch / 2 cc volume
15 minute run time
0.5 f/s / 0.15 m/s maximum speed
Microcontroller
Infrared sensing
Pico qualifies as the smallest in its category in spite of the existence of a 1 cc class in some Japanese robot competitions because to my knowledge (to date), none of those robots have contained their own power source, and many of them don't even contain any circuitry.
Labels: robots, seemslikemagic, technology
Netcosm
Netcosm monitors the traffic flowing across your routers and remasters that data into entertaining clashes of good and evil data packets
Labels: games, technology, toomuchtimeonhands
Tuesday, April 10, 2007
North Korean Precision Art
Monday, April 9, 2007
Sunday, April 8, 2007
Peter Cook - Superthunderstingcar
Peter Cook's wickedly accurate parody of "Thunderbirds" and "Sting Ray," complete with obvious hanging strings and bushy eyebrows.
Labels: toomuchtimeonhands
Thursday, April 5, 2007
Thailand Blocks YouTube
Tuesday, April 3, 2007
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