How often have you said to yourself, “You know, I sure wish someone would build a robotic bat head.” What? Never? In fact, you say, the whole idea sounds…well, batty? Not too surprising, I suppose. After all, bats have suffered a serious image problem throughout most of western history. (In the Orient, they are often …
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The art of retouching
Have you ever looked at a beauty on a magazine cover and thought, “Nobody looks like that in real life!” Guess what? You’re right. Page through Glenn C. Feron’s portfolio. After each image loads, hold the cursor over it to see what it looked like before retouching. In particular, notice the amazing collapsing tummies and …
Worried about getting a house-sitter?
No more fear: Roborior is here.
Crazy president?
Saparmurat Niyazov, president of Turkmenistan, has banned lip-synching in his Central Asian country because of “a negative effect on the development of singing and musical art.” Niyazov banned opera and ballet in 2001 for “not corresponding with the national mentality.” Last year, he called for young people to not get gold tooth caps and urged …
Auroras on the way?
And now time for today’s space weather report: Big sunspot 798 exploded twice yesterday, August 22nd, and hurled a pair of coronal mass ejections apparently toward Earth. Geomagnetic storms are possible when the clouds arrive. Sky watchers should be alert for auroras during the nights of August 23rd and 24th. High latitudes are favored: e.g., …
Promoting demating
“Discovery is Demated,” says the headline to this story. Nothing too special about the story, except…is “demated” a word now? If so, it seems to me it would be a fine alternative to “divorced,” which, after all, sounds a bit harsh, and we all know how important it is not to offend anyone’s delicate sensibilities …
The bat-bot
How often have you said to yourself, “You know, I sure wish someone would build a robotic bat head.” What? Never? In fact, you say, the whole idea sounds…well, batty? Not too surprising, I suppose. After all, bats have suffered a serious image problem throughout most of western history. (In the Orient, they are often …
Animaris Percipiere
Technovelgy.com writes about a fascinating free-roaming clockwork mechanism by artist Theo Jansen that will walk the main square of Linz, Austria as part of the Ars Electronic Festival. Far out. And I mean that in a good way.
"From hard sci-fi to past future in three days…"
The Speculist finds that the pace of scientific discovery is leaving technological prognosticators in the dust. And be sure to read the whole story about converting ordinary skin cells to embryonic stem cells.
Building a better bat-bot
OK, I confess I’m blogging this item just so I can use the phrase “robotic bat head,” which appeals to my 10-year-old inner geek.
It’s the Carnival of Tomorrow!
I should really link to the Carnival of Tomorrow every time it goes up, but whether I remember to do so in the future or not, here’s this week’s Carnival, a good way to introduce yourself to the realm of futurist-related blogs.
Using stored summer heat to de-ice roads
They’ve done it in England by pumping stored warm water through a network of pipes underneath a road when the temperature drops to 2 degrees Celsius. Somehow I doubt it works when the temperature drops to -35…and doesn’t climb above -25 for a week, so no joy for Saskatchewan, I’m guessing.
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