Here’s a fun robotic luggage concept from architect/designer Peter Yeadon – the Fido luggage bot follows you around like a loyal companion as you travel. I’ve hauled a lot of robots -in- suitcases, but it would be nice to have my suitcase doing something more than get heavier or lost. [via] Link.
Spiderwrech writes – “Android World is filled with different projects from people around the world building androids, mech robots/ etc… Has some great videos and pictures as well as resources for building your own androids!” – Link. Pictured here, the Tech Works studios humanoid – Link.
Who knew there was so much going on with DIY “working while walking” – here are some of the links and resources sent in to us after our post “DIY Exercise office”. Steve writes – “Weird! A year ago I posted photos of my treadmill laptop stand, and I had a story all ready to […]
Jones is a shark! – “Imagine getting inside the mind of a shark: swimming silently through the ocean, sensing faint electrical fields, homing in on the trace of a scent, and navigating through the featureless depths for hour after hour. We may soon be able to do just that via electrical probes in the shark’s […]
MIT architect Mitchell Joachim has proposed a living house, based on an ancient gardening method known as pleaching, which involves weaving together tree branches to form living archways, lattices, or screens – [via] Link.
“Within the next few months, Norcal Waste, a garbage hauling company that collects San Francisco’s trash, will begin a pilot program under which it will use biodegradable bags and dog-waste carts to pick up droppings at a popular dog park. The droppings will be tossed into a contraption called a methane digester, which is basically […]
An enzyme based computer could live inside you and release drugs based on conditions going on – “The enzyme computer was used to perform two fundamental logic computations known as AND (where A and B must both equal one) and XOR (where A and B must have different values). The addition of two further enzymes […]
