Thursday, April 30, 2009

Boston Dynamics

RiSE is a robot that climbs vertical terrain such as walls, trees and fences. RiSE uses feet with micro-claws to climb on textured surfaces. RiSE changes posture to conform to the curvature of the climbing surface and its tail helps RiSE balance on steep ascents. RiSE is 0.25 m long, weighs 2 kg, and travels 0.3 m/s.



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Read more on it here.

Speakers

Almost A4 size - Flexpeaker
those are SPEAKERS!
made by : ITRI (Industrial Technology Research Institute)

Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Top Gear

Sorry, TopGear doesn't let me embed this, but you can watch

Part 1 and Part 2.

Tell me if you like it

Swine flu

H1N1 Swine flu in 2009
Pink markers are suspect
Purple markers are confirmed or probable
Deaths lack a dot in marker
Yellow markers are negative

for the map, click here