These is a video from harbinger of robotic doom Boston Dynamics unveiling their new ATLAS humanoid robot, which appears significantly less boxy than its predecessor, and with almost all its joints able to rotate 360-degrees so it can move like the possessed girl in The Exorcist. That’s nice, that’s something
This is a short video demonstration of the energy return of a carbon plate running shoe (one with a carbon plate in the midsole designed to increase energy return with each step and reduce fatigue) versus a regular running shoe. That…was a drastic difference. Almost as good as flubber, but
This is a hype video from the Invisibility Shield Company highlighting the second generation of their invisibility shield, and offering it for sale on Kickstarter. The shield, while not perfect, does provide an impressive amount of invisibility immediately behind it. And right now you can get a 40″ x 28″
This is a video of a Boston Dynamics ATLAS humanoid robot taking a break from unboxing and sorting shock absorbers to dance. The headless horseman of the apocalypse moves like it’s about to fall down at any second, but manages not to. Kind of like me when I’m drunk, except
Because there’s absolutely zero shortage of wackadoo ideas on the internet, here’s a couple videos of rollerblader Ilia Savosin hacking the Matrix and performing a variety of tricks with custom skates he made using computer keyboards, flatscreen monitors, laptops, and computer mice. Was that a QWERTY grind I saw?! Probably
This is a video of of The University of Tokyo’s Alter3 humanoid robot being fed text prompts by ChatGPT 4 to be acted out like in charades. It’s absolutely horrible at the game (okay, its snake and ghost were decent), and if you’re playing charades, you better hope ol’ Alter
This is a video from the recent Adobe MAX 2023 conference of researcher Christine Dierk unveiling Project Primrose, a dress covered with reflective LCD scales that can change patterns instantly, or even be animated. Adobe imagines designers “layering this technology into clothing, furniture, and other surfaces to unlock infinite style
Because not everybody has the Hulk-like strength of yours truly, this is a satisfying video of a machine created by JP Botelho that was designed to straighten bent rebar. Is rebar that’s been previously bent as structurally sound as rebar that hasn’t been? I have no clue, do I look