Feeling like a slouch? No fear, because playing video games while jogging in place is here — well, almost.
The Omni treadmill is designed to let you run, walk or jump in place while you play games on Oculus Rift, the virtual reality headset for 3D gaming. The Omni, sold separately to the Oculus Rift, is now available for pre-orders on the company’s web site.
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Yet capturing the lions from an up-close, ground level posed obvious risks, both to the safety of Nichols’ team and the welfare of the Vumbi pride they were following. They could have easily photographed the lions from afar with standard telephoto lenses, butNational Geographic had a more innovative solution< … Read More → "National Geographic uses drones and robots to capture stunning images of African lions (video)"
Depending on where you stand vis-à-vis childrearing, the golden age of youth dining in America either began or ended with the Volstead Act. ?In the century leading up to the dry laws, children rarely ate out. A child had to be relatively well-off in order to dine in public, and a guest at a hotel to boot. (Restaurants not attached to hotels didn& … Read More → "A brief history of the children’s menu"
URL shortener Bitly has introduced Bitly for Feelings, a new bookmarklet that allows users to shorten URLs to express how they feel about a given link. For example, if you love a video you can shorten the link to luvit.me, if you find something you really want you can shorten it to iwantthi.is, and if you really hate something you can abbreviate it as loath.es. Bitly for Feelings is … Read More → "Bitly for feelings, express how you feel about a web page with a shortened link"
Apparently, slime mold has feelings too. Researchers at the University of the West of England have a bit of a history with Physarum polycephalum — a light-shy yellow mold known for its ability to seek out the shortest route to food. Now, they’re on a quest to find out why the organism’s so darn smart, and the first in their series of experiments equates the yellow goo’s movements … Read More → "Researchers’ robotic face expresses the needs of yellow slime mold (video)"
A team at the Georgia Institute of Technology has “painted” the world’s smallest replica of the Mona Lisa. It is 30 microns wide, which is one-third the width of a human hair! They used heat to manipulate molecules into different concentrations for the different shades.
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Some of the most advanced work in autonomous aerial robotics is not done by DARPA, or by massive corporations. Rather, it is accomplished by teams of university students who participate in the International Aerial Robotics Competition (IARC). For the past 23 years, the IARC has challenged college teams with missions requiring complex autonomous robotic behaviors that are often beyond the capabilities of even the most sophisticated military robots. This year’s competition, which was held in China and … Read More → "2013 International Aerial Robotics Competition tests student-built espionage robots (video)"
With potential oceans flowing below its icy surface, NASA thinks Jupiter’s Europa moon is promising candidate to harbor organic life. As such, the space agency and its JPL laboratory are looking to send a lander there within a decade, and have detailed what it wants it to explore in a new paper. Key goals include measuring the organic content of surface and near-surface chemistry, exploring mineralogy, measuring … Read More → "NASA details mission to discover whether Europa moon is habitable"
In 2008, Dmitry Agarkov received an unsolicited letter from Tinkoff Credit Systems (TCS) offering the 42-year-old Russian man a credit card with what he found to be unattractive rates.
While most people would have just thrown away the letter, Agarkov decided to do something different. He scanned the contract in the letter into his computer and altered it in his favor, including, for example, a 0% interest rate, no fees, … Read More → "Russian man who got bank to sign homemade credit card contract now suing them for not following terms"
About 200 million people go to U.S. beaches each year. About 36 of those hundreds of millions are attacked by sharks. Most of them survive.
