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Posts Tagged ‘cool’

The Prometheus Device

Everett Bradford has created a device that aspiring superheroes and supervillains alike will be drooling over: The Prometheus Device. Put simply, it allows you to cast fireballs from your hand. This is the kind of thing I expect Mickey Rourke to be sporting as Whiplash in Iron Man 2.

From Everett’s YouTube page:
Prometheus is version 3 of the Pyro [...]

Picture of the Week: Best Friends

If you’re scared of this photo, you’re paranoid.
Via Hey Okay

Bend It Like Nano: Microrobots That Play Soccer!

Hockey not your thing? Baseball too boring? Do all those rules in the NFL just leave you confused? Fear not, wannabe sports fan – here’s a competition that might be your cup of tea: Soccer with Nanobots… aka RoboCup!

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the federal agency that advances U.S. innovation and competitiveness, is partnering [...]

Darth Vader Teaches the Pythagorean Theorem

If Darth Vader, dark lord of the Sith, were a high school math teacher, this is probably how he would explain the Pythagorean Theorem. Remember, class: “Do not underestimate the dark side of the triangle.”

More Facial Animation: Farewell to the Uncanny Valley?

Last week I wrote about the latest in 3D facial animation and how I thought it still had a long way to go to eliminate the creep factor. Well, apparently, “long way” = “one week” these days. As commentor eksith pointed out, I was experiencing the uncanny valley, a hypothesis that when robots, CGI animation, and [...]