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futurescope:

MIT’s Cheetah robot runs faster & more efficiently

Robotic Greyhound Races are closer than you think. From Engadget:

At the recent International Conference on Robotics and Automation, the Institute of Technology showed of its newest version, which reached a top speed of 13.7 mph. To accomplish this, the runner still needs parallel support bars to constrain movement in one dimension, reducing any roll, yaw — and the chances of a pretty expensive fall. The team says the new version’s cost of transport (COT is power consumption divided by weight, times velocity) is around 0.52. In comparison, Honda’s Asimo has a hefty COT of 2.

[read more] [MIT Biomimetic Robotics Lab]

Este robot corre a más de 20 km/h

dighotlist:

To get people to buy pizza during movie nights, Domino’s partnered with video rental stores to distribute DVDs that look and smell like pizza. To achieve this, thermal ink was applied to the DVDs and after they have been warmed up in the DVD player, the discs come out looking like a pizza coming out of the oven. 

Dvds de domino’s que con calor huelen a pizza, que buena forma de antojar

(Source: theverge.com)

thisistheverge: ‘Geography of Hate’ maps racism and homophobia on Twitter Twitter, even more than many other social media tools, can feel disconnected from the real world. But a group of students and professors at research site Floating Sheep have built a comprehensive map of some of Twitter’s most distasteful content: the racist, homophobic, or ableist slurs that can proliferate online. Called Geography of Hate, the interactive map charts ten relatively common slurs across the continental US, either by general category or individually. Looking at the whole country, you’ll often see a mass of red or what the map’s creators call a “blue smog of hate.” Zooming in, however, patches appear over individual regions or cities; some may be predictable, while others are not.  Detector de odio, homofobia y racismo de #twitter en Usa, interesante sería ver este mapa en Colombia

thisistheverge:

‘Geography of Hate’ maps racism and homophobia on Twitter

Twitter, even more than many other social media tools, can feel disconnected from the real world. But a group of students and professors at research site Floating Sheep have built a comprehensive map of some of Twitter’s most distasteful content: the racist, homophobic, or ableist slurs that can proliferate online. Called Geography of Hate, the interactive map charts ten relatively common slurs across the continental US, either by general category or individually. Looking at the whole country, you’ll often see a mass of red or what the map’s creators call a “blue smog of hate.” Zooming in, however, patches appear over individual regions or cities; some may be predictable, while others are not. 

Detector de odio, homofobia y racismo de #twitter en Usa, interesante sería ver este mapa en Colombia

vanessa-draws:

“Through the SCAD Museum App, augmented reality technology reads the visual cues from each design. Though the canvas in blank in front of them, the user sees current SCAD Museum artwork embedded in the frame on their smart phone or mobile device. When they tap the image, the user is redirected to the Museum website for information on the art.”


My SCAD Museum Augmented Reality project I did for my Intro to Advertising class. This project has been displayed in Adler Hall’s Green Mile Gallery and in SCAD’s New York One Show Event. Vanessa Brown. 2013.

El arte y la #realidadaumentada mezcladas en un museo #ar #innovation

yoannmichaux: Lego Daft Punk by Jake Meier #Lego Daft Punk

yoannmichaux:

Lego Daft Punk by Jake Meier

#Lego Daft Punk

galaxynextdoor:

Someone has almost done it, someone has made an actual [almost] plasma cutter, used by Isaac Clarke in the Dead Space games. This one doesn’t dismember limbs, but it does burn wood and rotate for ‘alternate fire’. This is pretty cool and worth checking out.

Made by Patrick Priebe, founder of  Laser-Gadgets

Para mi este es el inicio de las armas laser, no estamos lejos de un sable Jedi #laser #gun #arma

matiasmunoz:

El ascensor de Coca Cola que cambia las estadísticas

El ascensor de Coca-Cola, mantener la idea simple es la clave #btl #innovacion

Las fotos de edificios tienen un extraño encanto #building

Las fotos de edificios tienen un extraño encanto #building

(Source: airows)

thekhooll:

Sky Walker

Russian thrill-seeking photographers Vitaly Raskalov and Alexander Remnov get their thrill by sky-walking, which consists of scaling tall structures without safety equipment and uploading pictures to social media sites. 

Fotografía desde el cielo, el riesgo es que te puedas caer

yoannmichaux:

Professional line. Scholar line. Norma Atelier Ads by DDB Medellín

En Colombia si hay buenos ads #Advertising

trendd:

Vending machines are getting pretty rad these days.

“Ad Age reports that a big announcement “is coming soon” about a “major project” for the brand, possibly involving vending machines that will virtually connect consumers in India and Pakistan, two countries that long have had sectarian, sometimes bloody, differences. As depicted in a teaser video that Coke released in December, the machines would use video technology so that users in the two countries could see each other and “touch hands virtually”

(via Coke Brands World Peace with “Open Happiness” Machines)

Están tan de moda las #VendingMachine que ahora conectan paises #CocaCola

(Source: youtube.com)

trendd:

I love this Minority Report tech.

“Imagine if you could do things on your computer just like you do them in real life. If natural movements replaced all those clicks and taps and drags and drops. Imagine if technology finally figured out people, instead of the other way around. That’s the Leap Motion Controller.

It senses your hands and fingers and follows their every move. It lets them move in all that wide-open space between you and your computer. So you can do everything without touching anything. It’s the tiny device that will change the way you use technology. It’s the world’s most natural technology that just might change the world.”

(via Leap Motion)

Estamos a un paso de controlar todo con sólo las manos #tecnologia #tech

(Source: youtube.com)