Posts tagged “technology”
Powers of Ten
This quote is from one of the most amazing things I’ve ever seen on the ‘net. I cannot believe that this site is associated with FSU. You really need to see it, though. View the Milky Way at 10 million light years from the Earth. Then move through space towards the Earth in successive orders
We Have the Technology
The folks at BIONIC SYSTEMS have an incredible Flash site. I haven’t looked at anything beyond the entrance page and I’m already very impressed. This amazing splash page is worth a visit even if there’s nothing else at the site. Check ’em out.
Strange Input
A crazy input device
RoboScience
RoboScience has created the RS-01 RoboDog – the world’s most powerful, most advanced and largest commercial legged robot. The RoboDog takes leading-edge technology out of the laboratories of the world’s major organisations and puts it in people’s living rooms.
mirror sculpture Nottingham
A £900,000 mirror sculpture destined for a square in Nottingham, UK, will have to be shielded to prevent it focusing the Sun’s rays and barbecuing passing birds . Anish Kapoor’s highly polished concave steel mirror is six metres in diameter. Direct sunlight hitting the mirror would be focused into a narrow beam of light as
Origami Phone
New Origami Trick: Turn Paper Into a Functional Phone “I recently held a working prototype of the new phone–about the size of a credit card–and listened to the ringing at the other end, marveling at the quality of the audio transmitted through the combination earpiece and microphone. And when my call was done, I unwrapped
Jetpacks
Transportation of the future
BladeRunner
Director Ridley Scott took issues already noticeable in the 1980s, such as urban development, genetic engineering, and, of course, climate change, and took them to what he thought was their next logical stage. So what else did Blade Runner get right? link via Follow Me Here …
Mobile Phone PDA combination
Baby! It really doesn’t get much cooler than this! My Visor and my cell phone combined?! Awesome! The only drawback is that my Visor is much larger than my phone. What I really want is a Visor/phone combo that’s only as big as my phone. With a camera. That plays video games. And unlocks my