Matt demonstrates how he uses an Arduino to make a celebrity-silencing remote control for your TV.
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Heart Stop Beating is the story of Billy Cohn & Bud Frazier, two visionary doctors from the Texas Heart Institute, who in March of 2011 successfully replaced a dying man’s heart with a ‘continuous flow’ device they developed, proving that life was possible without a pulse or a heart beat.
Kinetic sculptor and artist Theo Jansen builds ‘strandbeests’ from yellow plastic tubing that is readily available in his native Holland.
The McGurk effect is a compelling demonstration of how we all use visual speech information. The effect shows that we can’t help but integrate visual speech into what we ‘hear’.
I’m sure you are aware of Pilobolus fungus spore.
I have a feeling this system will cost more then my electric bill for a life time twice…
SmartBird is an ultralight but powerful flight model with excellent aerodynamic qualities and extreme agility. With SmartBird, Festo has succeeded in deciphering the flight of birds – one of the oldest dreams of humankind.
The tech was developed for bakeries with the intention of automating the handling of soft substances that were either too malleable or too icky for human hands.