TOOL is one of the best bands that I ever heard or seen. They create incredibly artstic pieces. This song Sober is one of my favorites. All of there videos have crazy mind blowing things happening. It looks like little clay figures moving around by themselves. These videos are a little creepy but at the…

Answer: A shitload. Jeff Russel’s Starship Dimensions is one of those sites that are so fascinating and so nerdy that you can’t help but look at every single page. It’s essentially a visual representation of the scale of every spaceship and creature from movies or shows that start with “star-” or “babylon-.” Interestingly enough, Russell…

These are the new Sony’s QURO robots which can dance and they move really smoothly considering that the humans biped locomotion is quite challanging for humanoid robots. The QUROs can also react to the environment and get up from a fall, throw a ball since they have full arm movement, as well as voice/face recognition,…

Most designers know that most of the materials and products that we casually enjoy as life convenience were first used in some military application or other. Here is another example of something that is quite revolutionary but could become mainstream in the next 5-10 years. It’s an exoskeleton much like that of insects in that…

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Artistically these machines or robots may be not so attractive, but they may soon and already have put people out of work. Mainly used for building cars, these robots are very useful to keep costs low. So if you ever start an auto company, you may want to think about getting one of these bad…

James Clar, an interactive lighting designer, is developing an LED mesh structure that will eventually be installed on a hotel in Barcelona, Spain. During the day, individual nodes within the mesh collect and read sunlight amplitude. At night, the structure processes the light collected by the nodes to emit different color patterns with numerous LEDs….

The University of Washington has designed three robotic fish. These fish are a great example of automata. They can swim seperatley on their own, but are also beginnig to work together and swim in schools. Eventually they will be set out into open waters and used to track such things as underwater pollution source, whales,…

Train by John Klima is set up so it can be used both on a real life and virtual basis. The 15×23 scale model train is controlled by game boys, cell phones, etc. to go around and pick up passengers along the way. People are visible in detail and interact with each other on the…

This flying manta ray is just a mylar balloon stretched around a skeleton and filled with helium. I’m sure the machine is not very complicated at all, considering that it has to be lighter enough to be carried by helium. The mechanical parts probably aren’t much more complicated than the toys we took apart last…

The Pharoah’s Serpent is a firework made of Mercury Thiocyanate. While this is extremely dangerous due to the release of toxic mercury fumes, it is one of the most interesting things I’ve ever seen. The snakes are made of foamed carbon. This chemical is also listed as a class 6 poison by the US DOT,…

Getup blocks is a machine that automatically rebuilds a block tower that has been knocked over. The blocks examine whether a child a still remains intrested when knocking over the towers that are not built by a person. The blocks want to know if the interaction with the material or the person or both.In the…