Thursday, February 7, 2008

Fluido No-Newtoniano

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Friday, February 1, 2008

Tetris Grand Master

Check out the end when the blocks that have dropped already turn invisible.

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Friday, October 12, 2007

Strippers Make More Money Immediately Before Ovulating

"... if you're a woman in any service-industry job looking to maximize your tips, [researchers] suggest scheduling more shifts for the phase right before ovulation" More

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Thursday, October 11, 2007

Right Brain or Left Brain? Which way is she spinning?

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Thursday, July 26, 2007

Lemon Batteries


Illuminate an LED with a LEMON! What's even more amazing is that there is an instructional video on YouTube

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Wednesday, July 25, 2007

Sleeping Makes You Smarter

Say you start learning something new on Monday and go home and get a good night's sleep. When you return on Tuesday, your performance will be better than when you left off on Monday. Without any more lessons! How is this possible? Sleep! More

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Thursday, June 28, 2007

Water Balloon & Candle Science Trick

If you hold a balloon full of water over a flame, will it pop? Find out.

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Monday, June 25, 2007

Girl, 2, becomes member of Mensa

"Georgia Brown, from Aldershot, Hampshire, astounded experts by scoring 152 in an IQ test - putting her in the top 2% of the population for her age." "She scored 152 points but I think she could have got more - she just got very tired. Concentrating for three-quarters-of-an-hour at that young age is amazing." More

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Wednesday, April 18, 2007

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

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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.

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Monday, March 26, 2007

Buddha Machine


"The Buddha Machine is a little plastic box that plays music."

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Monday, March 5, 2007

Amazing Image Denoising and Interpolation






Quite amazing interpolation. Is it real? More

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Thursday, March 1, 2007

Solar Powered George W Bush Chariot

"In this segment from the Hippy Gourmet TV show, we visit with Bob Schneeveis, the inventor of the Solar Powered Walking Chariot! Bob is a brilliant and eccentric character who studies nature and then turns it into sustainable, solar-electric vehicles and gadgets... Check out how clean powered engine drives these legs and rollerblades in such a human-like fashion...amazing! This thing actually has a lot of kick to it and is capable of covering all kinds of terrain it seems."

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Wednesday, February 21, 2007

GRL Laser Tag Rotterdam - how to and source code

The main event of the GRL Rotterdam tour - 'L.A.S.E.R TAG' - 60mw geek graffiti madness.
Watch the
video here on the Graffiti Research Lab website. Link

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Thursday, February 15, 2007

RFID You Can Inhale

"RFID keeps getting smaller. On February 13, Hitachi unveiled a tiny, new “powder” type RFID chip measuring 0.05 x 0.05 mm — the smallest yet — which they aim to begin marketing in 2 to 3 years." Link

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Popcorn to English Translation

"A microphone in the cabinet of the Talking Popcorn machine picks up sound of popping corn, and a computer in the pedestal runs a program that translates the popping sounds according to the patterns and dictates of Morse Code. A computer-generated voice provides a simultaneous spoken translation."

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Wednesday, February 14, 2007

Steven Seagal's Lightning Bolt Energy Drink - Asian Experience

"Are you stuck drifting through life in a state of existential confusion wandering aimlessly through the multitudes of energy products not knowing which one is the right one for you? Then look no further for the true meaning of life then Master Sensei Seagal’s Lightning Bolt Energy Drink! Lightning Bolt, the one and only energy drink crafted by martial arts expert and herbal specialist Steven Seagal, is the only all natural 100% juice energy drink on the market." Link

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Wednesday, February 7, 2007

Folding Chair

Thanks to BBD

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Tuesday, February 6, 2007

Sailing Directly Downwind Faster Than the Wind

Sailing directly downwind faster than the wind - No it is NOT impossible! Description of the vehicle at http://www.ayrs.org/DWFTTW_from_Catalyst_N23_Jan_2006.pdf

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Thursday, January 18, 2007

Man Shoots Lightning From His Hand

This guys loves showing off by shooting lightning out of his hands even though it burns the tips of fingers off.

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Thursday, January 11, 2007

Boat Floats on Invisible Gas

"Get enchanted by a aluminum foil ship floating above ground on hexafluorid (gas significantly denser than air) at the Physikshow of the University of Bonn!"

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