Louie Schwatzberg @ TEDx SF
Nature’s beauty can be easily missed, but not through Louie Schwartzberg’s lens. Great TED talk on being grateful for eyes, minds and hearts, and the ability to comprehend light, and story.
A robot that flies like a bird
TED Talks Plenty of robots can fly — but none can fly like a real bird. That is, until Markus Fischer and his team at Festo built SmartBird, a large, lightweight robot, modeled on a seagull, that flies by flapping its wings. A soaring demo fresh from TEDGlobal 2011
steve jobs rest in peace…
“Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do…” – steve jobs
Workshop Santaniel
Here you can see my works distributed on thematic albums. I have dolls, toys, as well as certain types of design. shop where are my toys:http://boontart.ru/ also sometimes my toys at the store on World Cinema China-town…
debating human enhancement
Where do you stand on the subject of human enhancement? If recent cultural trends in things like music, movies, and video gamesare any indication, it’s a subject that’s been picking at society’s collective conscience quite a bit as of late…
Could a robot be conscious?
If a robot is produced that behaves just like one of us in all respects, including thought, is it conscious or just a clever machine, asks Prof Barry C Smith, director of the Institute of Philosophy.
Meteorites delivered gold to Earth
A burst of meteorite impacts around 3.9 billion years ago delivered precious metals to Earth.
Scientists have shown that the Earth’s surface became enriched with precious metals by impacting meteorites. The Earth’s crust and mantle has considerably more gold than expected from favoured models of planetary formation.
too cute: tiny robot busts out the dance moves
Japan has robots in just about every flavor you can imagine. There are ‘bots to care for the elderly and ‘bots to cook you ramen. There are even robots to belt out the latest pop tunes…
10 real life “memoirs” that read like scifi and fantasy stories
There are people in the world with life-stories that defy human imagination and expand our idea of what the human experience is like. And there are some people whose stories cross out of reality and into what reads a lot like a science fiction or fantasy epic.
the pentagon’s beetle borgs
Researchers create what may be the perfect scout: a bug controlled remotely through a chip implanted in its optic lobes and flight muscles…
