Category Archives: Technology

Extreme Parallel Parking by a Robot Car

By Mr. D | Published: July 17, 2010
The Computer Science Department at Stanford University demonstrates their robot car performing a sliding parallel parking maneuver. A driver is present in the car for safety reasons, but he doesn’t touch the car’s controls. For an explaination of the science behind this car, see this video. In September, Stanford plans to race Shelley, another robot car, up [...]
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Amazing Space Saving Furniture

By Mr. D | Published: July 16, 2010
Ron Barth, President of Resource Furniture, demonstrates and explains their amazing line of Italian-designed space-savers.
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The Dubai Metro at 818 MPH

By Mr. D | Published: June 11, 2010
The Dubai Metro was officially opened at 09:09:09 on the 9th of September 2009, by His Highness, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktoum, UAE Vice President, Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai. The video shows the journey from Nakheel Harbor and Tower Station, to Rashidiya Station. (via The Infrastructurist)
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A Golf Ball Hitting a Steel Plate at 150MPH

By Mr. D | Published: June 4, 2010
Unless you design golf balls, you’ll be surprised by this video.
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Custom Built Lego Felt Tip Pen Printer

By Mr. D | Published: June 2, 2010
YouTube user “horseattack” created a custom made Lego printer that uses felt tip pens instead of ink cartridges. He designed/built/coded it all from scratch including analog motor electronics, sensors and the printer driver.
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Quadrotor Stuntcopter

By Mr. D | Published: May 28, 2010
The University of Pennsylvania General Robotics, Automation, Sensing and Perception (GRASP) Lab demonstrates a quadrotor helicopter performing “precise aggressive maneuvers”. The helicopter is a small autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) that can flip, fly through windows, and perch. Batman will definitely want one of these for his next movie. (via)
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Robot, Robots, Robots

By Mr. D | Published: March 26, 2010
(RONNY HARTMANN/AFP/Getty Images) More images here, here, and here.
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The Roundup: Flying Fish Edition

By Mr. D | Published: November 30, 2009
An eerily beautiful view of flying fish. (YouTube 4:30) Victora Belanger photographs her hamster enjoying a teeny subway in Edie’s Big Adventure (Flickr. Via BoingBoing) A streetcar renaissance is coming to America. See the map. (Infrastructurist) What if Star Trek’s “replicator”, a machine that can assemble anything from bins of atoms, became real? (GOOD Magazine)
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Did you know 3.0?

By Mr. D | Published: May 11, 2009
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Extreme Sheepherding

By Mr. D | Published: March 18, 2009
What do you get when you cross expertly trained sheep dogs, geeks, and LEDs? Watch the video to find out.
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