This is a series of photographs from University of Pennsylvania biology professor Daniel Janzen of a species of caterpillar in Costa Rica (and other Central American countries) that has a realistic looking snake’s head on its underside. Plus it will actually try to strike like a snake if you get too close.
via Geekologie
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Intel CEO brought a robotic companion named Jimmy with him on stage at Code Conference today. Jimmy is a 3D-printed robot capable of walking, talking, moving his arms, dancing and even tweeting, and it’s the key to Intel’s vision of the future of robotics. Starting later this year, the company will make an open source robot kit with 3D-printed parts available to consumers for $1,600, with a research version for $16,000. The former will run on … Read More → "Intel will let you build your own 3D-printed robot later this year"
DARPA, has announced the start of a five-year, $26 million effort to develop brain implants that can treat mental disease with deep-brain stimulation.
The hope is to implant electrodes in different regions of the brain along with a tiny chip placed between the brain and the skull. The chip would monitor electrical signals in the … Read More → "DARPA teams begin work on tiny brain implant to treat PTSD"
Robert Morris is a sculptor and conceptual artist who is orignally from Kansas City, Missouri. Morris is currently based in New York and represented by the Leo Castelli Gallery. His work has been exhibited at some of the most revered art museums in the world, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and the Mus& … Read More → "Glass Labyrinth by famed artist Robert Morris"
As summer approaches and the temperatures start to soar, it’s time to get serious about staying hydrated. Your body relies on H20 to help keep you from overheating, and just carrying around a water bottle as a fashion accessory isn’t enough. You actually need to drink it, so Vittel created a bottle cap alternative that reminds you every … Read More → "A timer cap for water bottles reminds you to hydrate every hour"
Tonight at Code Conference, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella brought his Skype team onto the stage to prove that his company’s got the next big thing. Taglined “the pre-beta of magic,” the service, called Skype Translator, turns your real-time conversation into a Star Trek-like universal communicator. You can speak to someone who speaks a different language; the service adds the other person’s translations for you in subtitle format … Read More → "Skype Translator will let you chat in real-time with people in other languages later this year"
Have you been stabbed recently? If so, you should probably go get some medical assistance and possibly also some counseling for Internet addiction, because you really should not be online right now. Also, in the future, doctors might be able to chill your body to keep all that blood from coming out of you so quickly. So look forward to that.
Next month, the first human trials for just such a procedure will take place at the UPMB Presbyterian Hospital in Pittsburgh, where ten lucky victims of fatal injuries (obviously luck is relative in this particular … Read More → "First “suspended animation” trials aren’t actually suspended animation—they’re kinda better"
We know through first-hand experience that IBM’s Watson supercomputer can make a fine meal, but it’s apparently an ace at condiments, too. Fast Company has tried Bengali Butternut BBQ Sauce, a recipe chosen by Watson to maximize flavor through complimentary (and fairly uncommon) ingredients. The result is a “delicious” concoction unlike what you’d normally throw on your food — butternut and white wine give it a sweet … Read More → "IBM’s Watson computer makes a delicious BBQ sauce"
Intel Corp.’s chips contain tantalum, gold, tin and tungsten — all made from minerals that can be mined from war-torn parts of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Carolyn Duran’s job is to make sure they aren’t.
For the past five years, Duran and her team have confronted companies that produce the metals to find out whether they use ore from mines controlled by militias in the central African nation. … Read More → "Intel endures resistance starving Africa’s militia mines"
