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 [...]
If you’re scared of this photo, you’re paranoid.
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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 [...]
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.”
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 [...]
Yup, it is. Well, actually it’s a concept car, created for BMW by Transportation Design students at Turin-based IED (istituto Europeo di Design). The goal was to design “the BMW of 2015, interpreting the language evolution and the trademark essence, in view of the company’s future perspectives”. Whatever that means. I just know it looks pretty [...]
