OK Go has the best music videos of ALL TIME
(see also the marching band version)
Who doesn’t love the planetarium robot? :)
The Eigenharp
This is a pretty awesome chair.
That’s one zippy robot. (In case you’re wondering, it did already know the fastest route. Mapping out the maze looks more like this, but that’s still pretty impressive.)
URDB: a Universal Reversible DeBugger
For gdb, perl -d, pdb, and MATLAB - it somehow enables you to step backwards through your code. This is awesome if you use any of these debuggers on a regular basis.
It’s hard to tell how awesome this would actually be, but the video (below) is certainly interesting to watch (rather 90’s-tastic), and I’d like to try it out…
Driving a car with an iPhone. While standing on top of the car. O_o
How to find the area under a curve without calculus
- Ryan: guess how were taking the integral of these analog functions that come out of the gas chromatograph?
- Ryan: its one of those machines that scribbles a graph on a moving peice of paper, forget what that's called
- Ryan: but its how we measure the area under the graph that makes it seem really low tech for gas chromatography
- davidad: do you literally measure the area on the paper somehow?
- davidad: like by counting squares in the graph paper?
- Ryan: indirectly
- Ryan: but not literally
- Ryan: more precise than squares
- davidad: ah
- davidad: that's good at least
- Ryan: it's quite a clever idea for its simplicity
- Ryan: we carefully cut the graph out of the paper with scissors
- Ryan: and weigh it on an analytical balance
No matter how aerodynamic it is, only Mary Poppins can drift gently from the sky using only an umbrella.
Wrist-mounted flamethrowers. >_< Wow.
5-axis waterjet cutter! It’s basically a robot arm with a supersonic stream of water at the tip. It can cut through solid granite. Now that’s pretty nifty.
ThoughtTreasure: A natural language/commonsense platform
This system looks exceedingly nifty, but unfortunately, the author’s website, signiform.com, is down, so I can’t find anywhere to download the code, or to interact with the system directly.
