Here are a couple of videos from a Swiss lab where they are developing quadrocopters that can play tennis and build structures. By developing amazing software that allows the flying robots to work automatically, they are performing tasks that may one day mean difficult and dangerous jobs can be done quicker and safer. Not only does...
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Amazing Pumpkin Carving
Halloween is coming and I was looking around the web at pumpkin carvings when I found these brilliant pieces of art. Carved by Ray Villafane, they have such incredible detail and expression I thought I'd share them here. Here is a video of one sculpture Ray has created with remote control eyes.. a very cool idea to...

Minority Report Computer is Reality
If you ever watched the film Minority Report and thought "That computer is cool.. I can't wait for those to be real", well you might not be waiting too much longer. Oblong Industries created the G-Speak SOE platform (SOE means Spatial Operating Environment), an early version of which was actually seen in the movie being used by...

Quantum Physics Songs
I was listening to Greg James on BBC Radio 1 earlier and heard a brilliant electronica track called "The Quantum World" by Symphony of Science. While looking for this video I also found another educational and quite funny video explaining Quantum Mechanics and the history of the science. This video features clips from many leading figures...

Biomorphs, Interactive Evolution & Memes
Richard Dawkins first introduced these Biomorphs in his book The Blind Watchmaker as a way to show how evolution has resulted in the existence of complex organisms. The software applet that shows this can be found here and allows the user to choose the steps of the evolving Biomorph from a selection of options, the...

Artist Ai Weiwei Released
The Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei was released from prison earlier this week after 3 months of captivity. The Chinese media has reported that he confessed to tax evasion and was suffering from a chronic illness. It is also reported that Ai repeatedly told authorities he was prepared to pay for any outstanding tax payments immediately,...

A Guide to the Web – Google’s Online Booklet
I stumbled across this guide from Google, it explains a lot about browsers and the web. It clearly addresses all sorts of things from basics like "what is the internet?" to "the difference between old and modern browsers" and also some of the new programming technologies and features in HTML 5 and CSS. So if anything...
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Web Trend Maps
Information Architects agency in Tokyo (and also Zurich) are experts of interface design and also make apps including a much liked iPad app for writing, iA Writer. They are also the creators of the award winning Web Trend Maps. The latest is map number 5 and they always release them as posters to buy through their...

Google Enters Social Sharing with the Plus One Button
Google's Plus One button is the new service from Google as a step into the social network sharing arena with Facebook's "like" button and Twitter's "tweet" buttons. There are many other networking and bookmarking services offering sharing buttons, such as Linked In and Stumble Upon to name a couple. Along with Facebook and Twitter, these established services...
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Amazing Image of Saturn and Earth
This is a stunning photograph of Saturn taken by the Cassini space probe in 2006. It might look like a perfect computer-generated graphic.. but this image was created by combining 165 images taken over 3 hours with the wide angle camera on Cassini as it orbited the planet. Earth can be seen here too, but due to...









