PolkaRobot

"So you want to control your favorite robot with finger gestures on your iPhone? Now you can."

"Albert Exergian veröffentlich in seinem Tumblelog großartige minimalistische Poster zu TV Serien, sowohl aus vergangenen Tagen als auch aktuellen Datums."

"Researchers are developing a laser-based system to connect the human nervous system to robotic prosthetic limbs. Brain-machine interfaces provide the output for controlling prosthetics but ideally the system would also provide feedback, for example the sensation of picking up an object. The challenge is that electrodes wired to a particular nerve can also zap surrounding nerves, triggering false sensations."

"Today and Tomorrow has some photos and a video of a cool robotic sculpture from the late 1960s, designed by Edward Ihnatowicz."

"A Huge influence on bands like Daft Punk, SPACE sold 12 million records across 4 albums from 1977-81, and are sadly referred to as one of Europe’s great forgotten innovators of the 1970’s"

"Graphic designer Shi Yuan has created a way to turn normally passive things into something with a life of its own. Like a wallpaper that reacts to heat, the painting that reacts when you touch it, or the daily calendar that fades away during the day."

"Physics is weird. There is no denying that. Particles that don’t exist except as probabilities; time that changes according to how fast you’re moving; cats that are both alive and dead until you open a box."

"Four hundred years after Galileo’s telescope revolutionized humanity’s view of the universe, a gigantic telescope is in the works that could take us to a new, deeper level of understanding."