Collaborate Disseminate
There are a great many technologies we use to display information every day. We’re all familiar with plasma displays and LCDs, and then there’s more esoteric hardware like the split flap displays on municipal buses and around train stations. However, Breakfast have been working on something that turns architectural features …read more
Continue reading What Happens When You Cross A Brick With a Pixel?
A checkers-like game was discovered in a medieval castle. Continue reading An Example of a 2,000-Year-Old Board Game Was Found in a Secret Castle Passage
What’s the biggest problem right now with humanoid robots? They fall down. Disney seems to have solved that problem here by making robots that are meant to fall down and be caught by a net. Disney’s research arm (you may know them as Imagineers) is showing off a robot called Stuntronic which can perform controlled somersaults as it flies through the air. Check the video below, you really have to watch a few times to make sure this is a robot and not a person.
It’s really interesting to follow the evolution of this robot. It began with BRICK, a …read more
Continue reading Disney’s Humanoid Stunt Robots Throw Multiple Backflips No Sweat
Take a guess. What is the featured picture for this article? If you’re channeling your inner Google image recognition, you might say: “Best guess for this image: rock.” But, like Google, you’d be wrong. Instead, what you see are bricks made out of fungi obtained from tissues of mycelia.
By taking fungi obtained from tissues of mycelia and storing them in a jar filled with a growth medium (usually sawdust), MycoWorks is creating all sorts of materials with exciting properties. In just three to seven days, the fungi and sawdust mixture expands and forms into clumps of material, which …read more
Apple’s security updates page shows iOS 10, followed almost at once by 10.0.1. If you didn’t update within the first hour, are you OK now? Continue reading Will iOS 10, “the biggest release of iOS ever,” brick your device?
Enjoy the latest episode of our regular security podcast… Continue reading Are you *sure* your iPad’s bricked? [Chet Chat Podcast 241]
