Archives for the 'Inventions' Category
Trying FEEDJIT
Published on 19 Nov 2007 at 9:57 pm.
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Filed under Internet, Inventions, Software, Solutions, Technology.
I stumbled on this live traffic monitor called FEEDJIT today while visiting the Church of the Spaghetti Monster…
They also have a map that displays where the traffic is coming from.
Pretty cool, huh?
Kevin Knuth
Albany NY
Wingsuits for Base Jumping
Published on 15 Nov 2007 at 3:01 am.
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Filed under Fun, Inventions.
While growing up, my brother and I often talked about making a gliding suit like a Flying Squirrel… we called it a Squirrel Suit.
While we thought that it should work, we never made such a crazy thing.
But now they exist… and WOW!!!
http://www.biertijd.com/mediaplayer/?itemid=4262
This video is not to be missed!
Enjoy!
Kevin Knuth
Albany NY
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SuperBot: Robots from Modular Units
Published on 13 Nov 2007 at 12:00 pm.
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Filed under Exploration, Intelligent Systems, Inventions, Research, Robotics, Technology.
Dr. Wei-Min Shen director of the Polymorphic Robotics Laboratory at the University of Southern California has been working to develop the SuperBot, which is a robot that self-assembles from modular units.
Here are some of the videos of this amazing machine:
http://www.youtube.com/v/kBfyAR77ceI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfT0hbewv-4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sCrQnnEGuA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOX6W2kFiEc
Finally SuperBot climbs Ballona Creek
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECrVewhFYRA
I found out about this research from Robotory.com
Kevin Knuth
Albany NY
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Robots and the Coming Creation
Published on 13 Oct 2007 at 1:43 am.
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Filed under Astrobiology, Astronomy, Computation, Evolution, Exploration, Intelligent Systems, Inventions, Philosophy, Research, Robotics, Space, Technology.
‘Am I already in the shadow of the Coming Race? and will the creatures who are to transcend and finally supersede us be steely organisms, giving out the effluvia of the laboratory, and performing with infallible exactness more than everything that we have performed with a slovenly approximativeness and self-defeating inaccuracy?’
- George Eliot,
The [...]
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Intelligent Instruments
Published on 6 Oct 2007 at 6:24 pm.
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Filed under Computation, Exploration, Intelligent Systems, Inventions, Lego, NXT, Programming, Research, Robotics, Technology.
One of my main research thrusts recently has been my work on desiging intelligent instruments. The idea is to develop truly autonomous scientific platforms. Such systems would be able to explore the surface of the more distant worlds such as Europa or Titan, or dive deep into the oceans on Earth to search for undersea [...]
