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I'm Never Swimming Again: Robotic Snake Goes For A Dip. This is a video of a HiBot ACM-R5 robotic snake going for a little skinny dip. For the record, I would NOT get naked and swim with it. I did go skinny dipping with a bunch of girls in college though. I'm lying. I guess it could have happened in an alternate reality though -- one where I didn't have to wait until I was 28 to see a girl naked. God, why can't I live in that reality?

I bet I'm taller and have a nicer complexion in that universe too. You know how much money I have to spend on beauty products? Hit the jump for the video. Thanks to fat piggie (two tips in one day -- a gold star for you!) Ugh: The Most Anatomically Correct Humanoid Robot. 8x8x8 RGB LED Cube. The Shoe of Tomorrow Knows How Hard You Hustle | Playbook. Innovation in athletic shoes historically has focused on improving materials and manufacturing to make lighter, stronger sneakers. Now the focus is on making shoes smarter. The next generation of athletic shoes will feature radio frequency identification tags, motion sensors and accelerometers that will allow you to customize the look, fit and responsiveness of your kicks. The shoes of tomorrow also will transmit data to the cloud, allowing you to fine-tune your workout and brag about your accomplishments on Facebook or Twitter.

The Adidas and Nikes of the world have been experimenting with this for almost 30 years. “The brands that are thriving today are the ones that make it much more than a transaction,” Jeff Lyman, a designer at Nike, said during a panel discussion last month at South By Southwest. The relationship is moving on two tracks: the customization of shoes and the gamification of exercise. But the shoe of tomorrow will do so much more. Video: Nike. Largest Rube Goldberg Machine: Purdue team set new world record (2012) Broadcast Yourself. Robots Conquer Fires, Jungle, Sandstorms in New Navy Training Ground | Danger Room. This is Octavia. A disturbingly lifelike robot, she’s stationed in the Navy’s brand-new Laboratory for Autonomous Systems Research (or, yes, LASR) to teach human sailors how to work with robots and to learn, in turn, how to work with human sailors. Oh, and she fights fires — like the one a Navy scientist lights in a cavernous hangar bay.

While the fire starts burning inside a series of partitions, the scientist — playing the role of a fireman — silently gesticulates at Octavia. The robot’s sensors and algorithms are meant to process the incomplete, contradictory or incorrect information that we humans spew every day. But that’s par for the course in this gleaming, 2-week-old, 50,000-square-foot complex on the campus of the Naval Research Laboratory. Un magnifique ordinateur en bois, mélange de Steampunk et de 2001, L’Odyssée de l’Espace. S’il y a une chose que je reproche à la plupart de nos appareils modernes, c’est qu’en général leur look est terriblement classique et aseptisé : noir avec LED bleue, forme rectangulaire, très peu d’innovations esthétiques finalement… C’est peut-être une des raisons qui fait que je reste fasciné par les appareils modernes prenant place dans des boîtiers inspirés de technologie obsolètes : là au moins ça a de la gueule !

Voilà de quoi vous donner des idées de décoration avec un ordinateur vraiment original, inspiré par le mouvement Steampunk et par le film culte 2001, L’Odyssée de l’Espace : Le 4M est la dernière création de Love Hulten : un boitier et un moniteur LCD tout en bois de noyer, avec un souci du détail plutôt impressionnant : Bien peu d’information à se mettre sous la dent malheureusement. En tout cas, une telle bécane me fait bien baver. Source. Quick and easy Arduino-powered theremin. Thanks a lot, robot friend.