Dale continues his excellent Foo Camp video chats, here talking with Liam Casey, whose company acts as an interface between US (mainly tech) companies and the Chinese manufacturing sector. In the O’Reilly Radar piece from which this video is taken, Dale explains: At Foo Camp 2010, I caught up with Liam Casey of PCH International, […]
From BBC News, a cat named Oscar gets bionic legs! You’ve got to check out the video. Where do I sign up for a pair of these? A cat that had its back feet severed by a combine harvester has been given two prosthetic limbs in a pioneering operation by a UK vet. The new […]
DumpsterWorld “social network” for dumpster diving… BtB. D.D.F.A.Q. Q: I don’t understand why people want to take things from the trash. You must not be homeless, because you own computers. Why do you dumpster dive? Most people don’t understand how many useful resources are thrown in the garbage every day. Dumpster diving provides us with […]
Amazing sophistication. $10k printer, Chinese ink, press-on holograms. Fraudsters rack up millions of dollars in merchandise using fake credit cards with legit numbers hacked off the Internet. Detective Bob Watts of Newport Beach PD shows how it’s done.
Robot uprising jokes are getting a bit stale, I suppose, so I’ll pass on the obvious Terminator allusions this time. Plus this hulking tracked demolition machine from Sweden’s Husqvarna Construction Products is remote controlled, not autonomous, and so is really more a giant R/C car on steroids, with a massive jackhammer arm, than it is a true robot. Still, “awesome” comes to mind. [via BotJunkie]
The U3-X uses a balance control system that derives from Honda’s research on human walking dynamics for its famed ASIMO bipedal humanoid robot. When the rider leans his or her body, an angle tilt sensor sends data to the balance control system, which in turns moves the wheel, maintaining balance.
Metalworker Des Bromilow built a “life” size replica of Bender Bending Rodriguez from Futurama, complete with cigar and beard that he never wears. Better still, he documented the process in meticulous detail in a series of posts on his blog. [Thanks, Nicholas!]
