elephants
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You Can Count Elephants By Just Using Acoustic Gear
4:30PM Rosa Golijan | How do you count elephants in the jungles of Africa? You can either collect their excrement or you can listen. No, seriously. The Elephant Listening Project at Cornell University has figured out how to count elephants using acoustic monitoring. More »
Science
2:15AM Jack Loftus | Motola, like so many who must share their lives with former war zones and forgotten minefields, lost a limb in 1999. Thankfully, she walked again today courtesy modern medicine and an artificial limb. The thing is, she’s an elephant. More »
Amputee Elephant Walks Again Thanks To Incredibly Strong Artificial Limb
2:15AM Jack Loftus | Motola, like so many who must share their lives with former war zones and forgotten minefields, lost a limb in 1999. Thankfully, she walked again today courtesy modern medicine and an artificial limb. The thing is, she’s an elephant. More »
Phones
Land Rover S1 Phone Tested By Elephants: It Really Is The Strongest
8:00AM Jason Chen | This is why the Sonim/Land Rover S1 phone is the toughest phone yet: it can stand an elephant stomp, being run over an actual Land Rover and being tossed out of a second floor window. Plus… More »
Peripherals
Elephant Flash Drive’s Junk Is Bigger Than His Trunk
10:00AM Andi Wang | If you think that trunk is impressive, wait until you see this Elephant’s giant dongle. The 4GB USB flash drive whips out from the beast’s underbelly when you’re ready for it to mount your computer. [XTremeGeek via GeekyGadgets via CraziestGadgets] More »
Cameras
4:00AM Jack Loftus | “Bob, I wish the damn elephants were closer. This new telephoto lens is amazing, but the extra weight is killing me!” More »
Behind You!
4:00AM Jack Loftus | “Bob, I wish the damn elephants were closer. This new telephoto lens is amazing, but the extra weight is killing me!” More »
Robots
Amazing Mechanical Elephant Is Not Afraid of USB Mice
9:00AM Jesus Diaz | Steampunk may be tired, but this mechanical elephant doesn’t need any labels to leave us speechless with its design and detail. It’s just simply stunning, from tail to trunk. Built over the course of three and a half month by photographer/designer/cool-guy-at-large Andrew Chase, the 38kg elephant automaton is made out of “transmission parts, electrical conduits, plumbing pipes and 20-gauge cold rolled steel.” The robot is part of a book he is writing, called the Robot Trionic Morphatractable Engineer. As you will see in the gallery, the designs he’s creating for that are even more spectacular than the elephant. More »
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