PolkaRobot

"Star Trek im Informatikseminar, Baumarktwerbung in der Theologievorlesung – sechs Professoren erzählen, wie Filme, Fernsehserien und Werbung ihre Lehre verbessern."

"A new study released by a German consumer advocacy group is estimating that entertainment and software companies sent roughly 450,000 cease-and-desist letters to local file sharers alone in 2010 2009, yielding some $370 million in damages. That’s a steep jump from 2008, when the group tracked closer to 250,000 of such cases."

"Menschen mit Roboterarmen, künstlichen Augen und mechanischen Beinen sind inzwischen keine Zukunftsvision mehr: Mediziner und Ingenieure werden immer besser darin, Prothesen direkt mit dem menschlichen Nervensystem zu verdrahten – und sie damit zu neuen Körperteilen zu machen."

"The top ten best and worst clips from the original Skate game in their bone-crunching and mystifying glory."

"The Westminster Chiming Grandfather clock is an obelisk of discarded toys. At 2.2 meters tall, it's also a monstrous, functioning timepiece that now resides in, where else, Dubai."

"They came from all over the world, poles in hand, and feet ready to inch more than half a mile across a high wire strung over the Han River in a spine-tingling battle of balance, speed and high anxiety."

"The Photonics Research Group of Ghent University in Belgium created a 1 trillionth scale map that measures only 40 micrometers across"