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Science
Sharkskin Inspired Material Repels Bacteria
1:00PM Rosa Golijan | Sharks are scary. So scary that the texture of their skin alone prevents parasitic bacteria from sticking. Good, because by modelling a plastic sheet-like surface after that scary skin, we can actually prevent drug-resistant superbacteria like MRSA from building up. More »
Design
The Shark Still Looks Fake
5:20AM Mark Wilson | Strike fear into the hearts of men with the courteous Three Dimensions of Terror t-shirt ($10). Its 3D shark is kind enough to wait for its victims to put on glasses before commencing the attack. [Threadless via More »
Gadgets
Six Gadgets That Hand Jaws His Ass
6:00AM Sean Fallon | After Discovery’s Shark Week, paranoia is at an all-time high. Don’t let the fear of a shark attack prevent you from enjoying the beach when summer arrives. These products can help give you a false sense of security peace of mind. More »
Robots
Remembering Bruce, The Mechanical Shark From Jaws
6:40AM Mark Wilson | Just about everyone paints Bruce as a pain in the arse, not a lethal monster. More »
Robots
Mythbusters Build a Robot Shark To
2:12PM Nick Broughall | The best thing about Mythbusters, in my humble opinion, isn’t the explosions. It isn’t the rockets. It isn’t even Jamie Hyneman’s wicked mo (although all three of those things rock). No, it’s the cool stuff they build, like this robot shark they built to test whether sticking your fingers in a shark’s eyes will save you from becoming fish food. More »
Mythbusters Build a Robot Shark To Rule The Sea Test Shark Myths
2:12PM Nick Broughall | The best thing about Mythbusters, in my humble opinion, isn’t the explosions. It isn’t the rockets. It isn’t even Jamie Hyneman’s wicked mo (although all three of those things rock). No, it’s the cool stuff they build, like this robot shark they built to test whether sticking your fingers in a shark’s eyes will save you from becoming fish food. More »
Random Stuff
Rebel Shark That Plays By His Own Rules Jumps Onto Waterslide, Lives Fast, Dies Young
4:00AM Adam Frucci | A very steep water slide? Pretty scary. The same water slide, but with a shark coming down it right behind you? Yeah, that takes things to the next level. More »
Software
First Screenshot of the New Microsoft Ads, I’m a PC and I Shark Dive!
3:51PM Gizmodo US Edition | And here you have it! A couple of hours later, we have our first screen from the new Microsoft ad campaign. Now THIS represents me as a PC-user… I hang with SHARKS, man! [New York Times]
Science
Mythbusters Shark Week: Real Sharks Eat Robot Dog, Robot Shark Eats Real People
6:30AM Matt Buchanan | To find out if dogs are really homing snackycakes for bloodthirsty sharks, or if poking them in the eye with a pokey thing is actually a good idea, you could ask a dude in a lab coat, or like, watch Jaws. Unless you’re the Mythbusters–then you build a robot dog, surround it with doggy blood, piss and shit and dump it in shark-infested waters. And a 16-foot ROBOT SHARK. With serrated metal teeth and the same pound-for-bone-crunching-pound bite as a great white. But! If you stab it in the eye, you can make it stop killing you (I guess that’s one way to test the myth). You can catch a glimpse of this robo-Jaws in the vid below. galleryPost('mbsharkweek', 3, ''); More »
Gadgets
An Underwater Generator Inspired by Sharks, Minus the Seal Killing
8:30AM Adam Frucci | It never hurts to take cues from nature when designing technology, and that’s just what BioPower Systems did when engineering its bioSTREAM underwater generator. It’s inspired by shark tails, using the shape in a fixed device that moves with the motion of the ocean. It reverses the use of the tail, with the water moving it rather than it moving in the water, but by anchoring it to a fixed poing it allows it to align itself in any direction depending on how the flow is moving. No word on just how cost-effective generating energy this way would be, however. [BioPower Systems via PSFK] More »
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