I’ve heard the one about vegetables growing bigger if you play classical music at them, but cows that watch TV (of the Swiss Alps, no less) makes them “more happy and productive”? More »
There’s not much the Japanese love more than robots, so twas only a matter of time before exoskeleton suits found some useful purpose. This particular suit assists farmers on tough agricultural work.
The Beijing National Stadium, nicknamed “The Bird’s Nest,” has already become an icon in the country of 1.3 billion. But for some farmers close to Hangzhou (located in the southeast of China), the Herzog & de Meuron structure was just too darn far away… so in a fit of DIY ingenuity, they built their own replica out of bamboo. Steel’s apparently kind of hard to get when you’re living on a couple of dollars a day.
