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Robots
These Carbon Nanotube Muscles Are 30 Times Stronger Than Human Muscles
2:30PM Brian Lam | These next gen carbon nanotube muscles have “diamond-like” stiffness side to side, but are as flexible as rubber when moved perpendicularly. When voltage is applied to the structures, they contract with a pulling force 30 times the force per unit of human muscles. More »
Entertainment
How I Survived a Japanese Game Show: The Gigantic Human Prize Claw Game
1:30AM Gizmodo US Edition | The new episode still follows most of the tired reality show conventions and spends too much time on the stunningly boring contestants, but the brief game show events still impress. This week’s challenge: become a human claw game, picking up prizes as teammates control your x, y and z axis movement. This challenge aired much to the chagrin of Claw Machine Boy, whose chronic PTSD triggered hard when this episode aired. Stay tuned for a weekly review of the 45 seconds of this show that is worth watching. [ABC] More »
Gadgets
Do You Want to Know What Muscles Sound Like?
8:45PM Gizmodo US Edition | Cameron, a student at Cornell University, built an analogue amp/feedback system, and then wired his muscles up to the thing via electrodes. It’s kind of like a Theramin, but more weird. A doctor in the comments suggests fitting different voltages to each of the twelve muscles in the arm to vary the sound. I suggest shaving your whole body, covering yourself with electrodes, pantsing the analogue amp and then going for a run. Cacophony rules. [Music Thing] More »
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“Electric Man” Cooks Fish, Cures Rheumatism
8:55AM Seamus Byrne | This 71-year-old Chinese man goes by “Electric Man” to his friends and neighbors. Why? Because he routinely has 220V of electricity flowing through his body for “exercise.” While he’s charged up, he can do a number of things, such as light lightbulbs and cook a fish in a mere two minutes. He also uses his powers to treat locals for such diseases as rheumatism, arthritis and lumbago, which confirms my wish to never be treated at a rural Chinese hospital for anything, ever. • [Spulch] More »
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