There are a small but growing number of PDFs appearing in iTunes, users can subscribe to podcasts to automatically receive audio and video – and recently – PDFs. At MAKE & CRAFT we have experimented with this from the start – we have also cataloged all the podcasts that send out PDFs we could find […]
Back in October of 2006 our sharp eyed MAKE readers spotted a strange water craft and ultimately figured out what it was, here’s a story about it’s debut by the SF Chronicle — “The strangest vessel made its formal premiere Thursday on San Francisco Bay, and it was a sight to see: It looked like […]
A MAKE reader sent in a video of this interesting looking 3D modelling program (called InDex by Digital ArtForms) that lets you sculpt with your hands, anyone ever try it? – Link & more.
Wesley writes – “The inventor of the bear protection suit has just built a protoype for a suit or armour capable of stoping bullets and knives.” – Link.
BBC on the current human-lost-to-computer chess saga… “Deep Fritz, a chess-playing computer, has beaten human counterpart world chess champion Vladimir Kramnik in a six-game battle in Bonn, Germany. Deep Fritz won by four points to two, after taking the last game in 47 moves in a match lasting almost five hours. “ [via] – Link. […]
Pink Tentacle has the top 10 robot’s from Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry – “Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) has announced its top ten list of finalists for the 2006 Robot Award. The ten robots selected from 152 applications fall into four categories — service robots, industrial robots, public sector […]
Cornell University is developing these little bots that can change their configuration based on their environment, or when damaged figure out another way to get around… “We demonstrate, both computationally and experimentally, how a legged robot automatically synthesizes a predictive model of its own topology (where and how its body parts are connected) through limited […]
