Using nanolithography, Dr. Kelly Morrison and her team at Loughborough University in Leicestershire, England have created the world’s smallest violin, measuring only 35 microns long and 13 microns wide. For reference, the average width of a human hair is about 50 microns. Damn, that’s one small violin! Unfortunately it’s not
This is a video from Hyundai Motor Group demonstrating a pair of robots that can scoot under cars to lift them and move them around at will (and, eventually, hacked to steal supercars). I like how the robots showboat for a while after parking the first car before moving on
This is a video created by filmmaker Travis Bible using Google’s AI video generator VEO 3 to demonstrate just how convincing AI-generated video is now, and how it can be used to create deceiving news, or scam people out of their money. These are terrifying times we live in. I
This is a video of firearms expert and the UK’s Royal Armouries museum curator Jonathan Ferguson (complete with an “I’m Your Huckleberry” t-shirt under his blazer) reacting to and seriously discussing a variety of the outlandish weapons seen in the video game DOOM: The Dark Ages. That look on his
This is the music video for French musician IGORRR’s ‘ADHD’, a surreal trip made by The Meat Department using vintage movie clips and a bunch of AI generated WTFery. Some more details about the video while I watch it again looking for the hidden message AI is trying to send
Inspired by Wolverine’s Adamantium skeleton, The Hacksmith decided to try making his bulletproof skull. First, he had a CT scanned performed, then 3D printed a replica of his own skull in glass fiber reinforced nylon. Then, the skull was electroplated with Nanovate, a nano-crystallized metal alloy that ramps up energy
In an effort to highlight the advances in Chinese robotics, over 20 humanoid robots competed in the recent Beijing Half Marathon (13.1-miles) to see how they stack up against humans. Many didn’t finish, but several did, with the fastest, a robot named Tiangong Ultra, finishing with a time of 2
This is a clip from the BBC’s ‘The Secret Genius of Modern Life’ explaining why sausages work to use touchscreens (I thought it was because they look enough like fingers to fool the screen), and how touchscreens actually work. Whatever happened to magic being an acceptable answer? Hidden beneath your