Tue
Jun
8
Shonzilla, a pattern-seeking animal
Life is a game of patterns and chance, and those who play well will win.
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Wed
Jun
2
The Coke Zero & Mentos Rocket Car
I’ll just quote autoblog on this one:
“You didn’t seriously think that the whole Diet Coke and Mentos internet meme would die out with nary a whimper, did you? Of course not! The little bits of candy and sudsy concoction – in this case Coke Zero in lieu of run-of-the-mill Diet Coke – are back in action as a replacement for all those pesky fossil fuels.
Sadly, the economics of scale required to make Coke Zero and Mentos an actual substitute for gasoline and diesel make the newfound fuel unlikely to gain widespread acceptance. For what it’s worth, it apparently takes 108 two-liter bottles of Coke Zero along with 648 Mentos to travel exactly 221 feet.”
Sat
Mar
20
The oldest table trick perfomed in XXXL size with a BMW superbike.
I’ll agree with one commenter though who says “All marketing materials will be considered fake until proven in the court of Mythbusters.”
:-)
[via Toma2U & Viralmente]
Mon
Apr
13
NYU Student Conducts Most Adorable Robot Experiment Ever
The tweenbot, a cardboard-bodied, cheerful little bugger, is equipped with a flag stating its intended destination. Since it can only move forward, it depends on the kindness of strangers to guide it and remove obstacles.
Tisch School of the Arts student Kacie Kinzer created the tweenbot as a kind of art experiment. In her words:
I wondered: could a human-like object traverse sidewalks and streets along with us, and in so doing, create a narrative about our relationship to space and our willingness to interact with what we find in it? More importantly, how could our actions be seen within a larger context of human connection that emerges from the complexity of the city itself? To answer these questions, I built robots.
In New York City, we might expect the smiley-faced tweenbot to be stabbed, stomped, mugged, or covered in graffiti, but every single one of the journeys was completed without a hitch. Pedestrians would stop and help the little guy when he was trapped against a curb or headed into traffic, and point him in the right direction.
Sun
Oct
26
Watch this experiment that explains in an illustrative manner the difference in using CPU vs. GPU to draw graphics.
This feat was performed by Adam & Jamie (of Mythbusters) on NVISION 08 (an NVidia conference).
[via artmaze1974]
