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How a Fly Flies (TED Talks Video)

Johnny2x — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 18:02:20 +0000

Got 15 minutes? Have you always wondered how a fly flies or should I say have you taken it for granted that you think you know how a fly flies? Think again smarty pants! An insect’s ability to fly is perhaps one of the greatest feats of evolution. Michael Dickinson looks at how a common [...]

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A Monkey that Controls a Robot with its Thoughts (Video)

Johnny2x — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 17:19:53 +0000

Miguel Nicolelis: A monkey that controls a robot with its thoughts. No, really. Can we use our brains to directly control machines — without requiring a body as the middleman? Miguel Nicolelis talks through an astonishing experiment, in which a clever monkey in the US learns to control a monkey avatar, and then a robot [...]

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Curiosity begins first drilling on Mars

Johnny2x — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 22:08:28 +0000

The Curiosity rover began the historic drilling on Mars on February 6th. Said on NASA scientist on the Curiosity team: “We be drillin that mutha!” I can not stress enough how cool this is. This man made robot that we landed on ANOTHER PLANET is now drilling on that planet. I can not stop being amazed by [...]

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Iron Man’s laser gauntlet FOR REAL (Video)

Johnny2x — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 22:04:21 +0000

Some smarty pants went a head and made his own WORKING laser gauntlet. Ok maybe I am just jealous. I think what Patrick Priebe has here is pretty friggin awesome. Maybe he might want to send me one for product testing? I promise not to blow anything up. German cyber weapons hobbyist Patrick Priebe recently dropped us a line, however, [...]

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The “Shut Up ” Gun (Video)

Johnny2x — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 22:30:14 +0000

Wish you could just make someone stop talking sometimes? Of course you do everyone has those moments. The Japanese have done it again with a new device that can stop a person from talking. Speech-Jamming Gun Unveiled By Japanese Researchers Two Japanese researchers recently introduced a prototype for a device they call a SpeechJammer that can literally [...]

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Coming Soon – ‘Minority Report’ Style Computers

Johnny2x — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 17:39:58 +0000

You have seen these style of computers before in a lot of movies and TV shows. The user is moving around virtual object through a clear display screen. It it another futuristic concept that is getting closer to reality. I will put this one in the “I want it now!” category. Right behind my hover board. [...]

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“Four Eyes” So what these glasses are cool!

Johnny2x — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 14:41:46 +0000

from www.ubergizmo.com Wi-Fi glasses deliver new level of entertainment Who would have thought that a regular pair of spectacles might actually evolve into a high tech device down the road? An Israeli optics company figured out that such a revolutionary pair of spectacles is the future, and has developed a pair which will function as a [...]

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Astronaut and Robonaut “R2″ shake hands on the ISS

Johnny2x — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 17:48:57 +0000

Immediately after the handshake, R2 broke his neck and threw him out of the air lock. Ok that isn’t true but it is how Hollywood would like us to believe it should have gone down. The real story from gizmag.com NASA has been developing humanoid robots for use in space for some 15 years. The [...]

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