newVideoPlayer( {"type":"video","player":"http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=12251154&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1","customParams":[] ,"width":570,"height":375,"ratio":0.75,"flashData":"","embedName":null,"objectId":null,"noEmbed":false,"source":"vimeo","wrap":true} );
I’m sure USC’s Speech Articulation group gained all sorts of important phonological insights from these videos of an opera singer and a beatboxer doing their respective things in an MRI machine. Here’s the insight I gained: tongues are gross.
Human skin is apparently a very energy-efficient conduit for transmitting data. A recent experiment achieved a rate of 10Mbps, which may put my internet connection to shame. The experiment used small, flexible electrodes and took place at Korea University.
Sam Lomen’s Underskin charts a transit map to the human body. And no matter what the locals tell you, don’t take the pink line to the yellow line. That’s nowhere you want to go.
Remember the fascinating and spooky anatomy of the Lego Minifig? Well, it gets even more fascinating and spookier when it’s animated in 3D, which is precisely what the original designer — Jason Freeny — did. [Moist Production via The Brothers Brick]
Jason Freeny, the designer who brought us that amazing-yet-freaky minifig anatomy lesson last October, wants every Lego aficionado to know that there’s a huge red brick inside all of you.
Even the people who should be wearing spandex really shouldn’t be wearing spandex, if you know what I mean. But a skin tight suit that depicts your inner muscle tissue? OK!
After killing and dissecting an endless amount of Lego minifigs, artist/designer/mad doctor Jason Freeny has created the definitive anatomy map of the iconic figure, showing all the details and naughty bigs that we weren’t able to catch in our exclusive tour to the Lego Minifig factory in Denmark. Jason has plenty of experience on cutting apart other species too, like gummy bears and balloon animals:
