[Pedro Reyes] is a visual artist who lives in Mexico City. His most recent project was called ‘Disarm’ – a unique exhibit that combined dismantled weapons with sculpture and technology.
The army in Mexico seizes firearms on a regular basis and they are typically either buried or destroyed. But this time … Read More → "Disarm: Art project turns guns into a mechanized musical orchestra (video)"
Tradinno and his creators at Zollner Elektronik AG won the 2014 Guinness World Record for the World’s Largest Walking Robot. Packed to the teeth with hydraulics and pneumatics, Tradinno can move with surprising grace for an 11-ton mechatron, even flapping his wings and walking laterally, aka “doing The Hustle.”
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At 3970 Spencer St., 26 feet underneath a suburban neighborhood just off the Las Vegas Strip, exists a home like no other. This 70s-era bomb shelter also happens to be a 16,000 square-foot underground estate, complete with backyard, trees (made of plastic), pool, jacuzzi, AstroTurf, a full kitchen, “outdoor” water well, wet bar, and fireplace. The three bedroom home is “self-sustaining,” said realtor Winston King, and … Read More → "A Cold War mansion, 26 feet beneath Las Vegas (video)"
Light Echoes is a digital printer of sorts—but only by the most conceptual definition. It’s a high-powered laser attached to a wheeled boom, which rolls along the train tracks at a fixed speed. The laser projects light onto the surrounding landscape, one pixel at a time. In person, it looks like a brief trail of LED light. But captured in long-exposure photographs (using a Red EPIC camera), the projections … Read More → "A railroad-mounted “printer” that covers its tracks in laser graffiti (video)"
Mars One wants to send permanent settlers to Mars by 2023. To simplify an already costly and complex undertaking—said settlers won’t get a return ticket. But returning home is apparently a minor detail for many. From late April through the end of August, the organization took in 202,586 applications from aspiring astronauts across the globe.
via Singularity Hub</ … Read More → "200,000 apply to live out their lives on the red planet"
The way we conceptualize something—as one thing or many things—doesn’t always match up with the way our word for it behaves. There are some nouns that only have a plural form, regardless of how we think of them. They are known as pluralia tantum, Latin for “plural only.”
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8. SHENANIGANS
Words for activities that might be individually very different in their specifics but similar in some general aspect will sometimes be pluralia … Read More → "11 nouns that only have a plural form"
Milan, Italy-based illustrator Marcello Barenghi creates realistic colored pencil drawings of common objects. Marcello sometimes uses markers and watercolors to add extra enhancements to his illustrations. You can view more time-lapse videos on Marcello’ … Read More → "Realistic colored pencil drawings of common objects (video)"
