Mundane Information About Stuff You Really Thought You Knew
Sunday, October 19th, 2008
Probably because the real thing is just too real, a bunch Korean scientists decided to create a robotic plant that has humidifying, oxygen-producing, aroma-emitting, and kinetic functions, so basically biomimicking at it’s best. Why, oh why?
Sunday, October 19th, 2008
Now this is much better idea. This little robot plant stand moves around to find where the sun shines for the plant it holds!
via Neatorama
Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008
Since the internal site thinks I’m spamming it, I’ll just put the link here.
Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008
When Wayne Forrester saw that his wife Emma changed her Facebook profile to “single” just days after he moved out after a fight, he got so angry that he stabbed her to death!
The day before the murder, he called her parents and complained about his wife’s Facebook entry which he said “made her look like a fool”, the court heard.
In a statement to police Forrester said: “Emma and I had just split up. She forced me out. She then posted messages on an internet website telling everyone she had left me and was looking to meet other men.
“I loved Emma and felt totally devastated and humiliated about what she had done to me.”
In a victim impact statement, Mrs Forrester’s sister Liza Rothery said the murder had had a “devastating” impact on her and parents Frances and Robert. Miss Rothery added: “What on earth could Emma have done to result in such a brutal, callous attack on a defenceless woman?”
Friday, October 24th, 2008
Which one comes first: your cat or your blender.
Check this out, the Blender Defender
Have a cat that won’t stay off your counters? I do. I finally got fed up with it enough to do something about it: scare the crap out of him with a motion-detecting blender (while recording the results for my own amusement, of course).
See the videos and explanation http://www.plasma2002.com/blenderdefender/
Friday, October 24th, 2008
A walking house was developed by a danish art collective N55 and MIT have together build walking house.
First steps:
Designers say it provides a solution to the problem of rising water levels as the house can simply walk away from floods.
Friday, October 24th, 2008
Proof of concept. It’s not 100% working. Read more here.
Saturday, October 25th, 2008
Blendie is like the opposite of the ubiquitouness, where the machines must talk the same language as us.
Kelly Dobson made a blender to react when you speak it’s language.
The video is crazy and hilarious.
Update! Newsflash!
