Filmmaker Casey Neistat filmed a pretty funny PSA-type video about the dangers of texting and walking at the same time for the NY Times. It hilariously analyses the pitfalls of the text-and-walk which includes being rude, blind spots and the sheer danger of it all. More »
Remember Jacob French, the guy walking from Sydney to Perth in Stormtrooper armour to raise awareness and money for the Starlight Foundation? He’s a dead set champ, and now you can track his progress courtesy of his shiny new Spot GPS device. Here’s a map of where he’s got to so far. More »
Jacob French has just started walking across Australia — from Perth to Sydney (4100km) — in a Stormtrooper outfit to raise money for the Starlight Foundation. More »
Bushwalking isn’t necessarily the geekiest endeavour, but a large part of that is because carrying a 40kg backpack on your back isn’t necessarily a whole heap of fun. The Monowalker hiking trailer makes the carrying aspect much easier, turning you into a proverbial horse for your backpack’s cart. More »
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Oh, this is fun. Multimedia artist Rune Madsen took the usually passive act of people-watching and made it, well, a lot less passive. Watch how the stream of pedestrian traffic adapts as he rearranges some barricades. More »
Why Honda took a few days to seed a video of their potentially emasculating robotic legs is beyond me, but here it is: a faceless man running the “Walking Assist Device” through its strides (ha, ha). My fears of testicular danger are only partially mitigated, and the fact that the legs have a hilariously feminine gait doesn’t offer much comfort. That said, they do seem to work: the demonstrator never falls down, and appears to exert very little energy, even during deep squats. [Akihabara]
Although it’s as big as some of the apartments I’m looking now in Manhattan, the Walking House is not really a house, but a “modular dwelling system that enables persons to live a peaceful nomadic life, moving slowly through the landscape or cityscape”. “Slowly” meaning “glacial-speed,” and “peaceful nomadic life” meaning “trying to desperately escape the subprime crisis”. And according to its designers, it has minimal impact in the environment thanks to its use of solar energy, small windmills and a wood stove. While it seems very alien in the video, it looks kind of cozy on the pictures inside.
Martin Montesano’s giant “Walking Beast” isn’t the first robot spider ever made, but it is the only one I can recall that is this enormous and has the ability to take on passengers. His 6 tonne, 23-foot-long creation was built over the course of three years at an expense of US$50,000–and it can carry up to six passengers in its steel belly and two (including the driver) in the head.
