Results for 'festo'
Science
Food Tech: What Doesn’t Make You Stronger Could Kill You
3:00AM Georgina Gustin | It’s hard to think of anything more essential to human survival than eating. And yet that very primal act of gobbling sustenance has, of late, become one of the most genuinely perplexing things we people do. More »
Design
When Lampshades Are Turned Inside Out
6:00AM Sean Fallon | Designer Christopher Moulder has taken a new approach to the lampshade by integrating both shade and lamp into a single unit. Plus, the shade conducts electricity, so there is no need for wires. More »
Gadgets
Bionic Penguins to Destroy Humans from Water and Air
8:40AM Jesus Diaz | Bionic penguins that travel underwater independently. Bionic flying penguins. Robotic arms made of fiberglass rods with free will. Molecubes that assemble into infinite-growing robots. All for real, as this video shows. I’m leaving the planet. More »
Robots
Who Needs Nature? Festo Bionic Learning Network Builds A Better Penguin
3:00AM Jack Loftus | Festo is no stranger to autonomous robot creatures, but their latest initiative, called the Bionic Learning Network, might as well be referred to from here on out as Skynet for the animal kingdom. More »
Entertainment
Watchmen Review: Is Ozymandias Steve Jobs?
10:00AM Jesus Diaz | The movie may not be the comic book, but I loved Watchmen. Great eye candy, awesome soundtrack, and it’s packed with pop culture references—and some of those made me think that Ozymandias is Steve Jobs. More »
Business
RIAA Layoffs ‘Bloodbath’ May Be the Beginning of the End for the Evil Organisation
3:00AM Adam Frucci | The RIAA is currently laying off dozens of employees in what’s been described as a “bloodbath” at the lawsuit-happy organisation. Could this be the end of the RIAA? More »
Gadgets
Bug Labs’ Modular Gadget System Gets New Add-On, BUGvonHippel
1:45AM John Mahoney | In the first expansion of the original four modules for the build-your-own-tech Bug system, the BUGvonHippel gives an open input board for connecting just about any sensor or interface imaginable to your Bug creation. More »
Gadgets
My Room II Is Still A Bastion of Antisocial Shut-Ins the World Over
3:30AM Jack Loftus | Way back in the archaic Internet days of 2004, Gizmodo brought you word of a self-contained bite-sized sanctuary called My Room. Now, in the present, Yamaha seems determined to keep its stranglehold on the social pariah demographic with My Room II. What’s new for 2008? Try “increased comforts” like touch screen controls, air conditioner mounts and a quicker construction time (under one hour) to get you out of society and into that Ted Kaczinski mindset pronto. Manifestos are not included. More »
Toys
R/C Fin-Fish Blimp Hypnotically Swims Through the Air
4:30AM Sean Fallon | Much like Festo’s Air Ray and Airjelly contraptions, this Fin-Fish R/C blimp floats so gracefully through the air that it is liable to hypnotise you at your office desk until quittin’ time. There isn’t any information on device, but it appears to be an entry in the annual Airship Regatta held in Germany. And, and like the Air Ray, it is probably built with a helium-filled balloon and servo-driven fins. [Thanks Beeker! ] More »
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