CB2 (Child-robot with Biomimetic Body)

post from CR4 - Recent Blog Entries on 06 April 2009 01:56:00 PM. © CR4 - Recent Blog Entries

From Engadget: All caught up on your sleep? Good. 'Cause our old friend the "Child-robot with Biomimetic Body," or CB2, has now returned to haunt your nightmares. As you might expect, the bot hasn't simply spent its past two years of existence terrifying the staff at Osaka University, it's act

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The RailPod is one track short of a train car,
the future of transportation

post from CR4 - Recent Blog Entries on 06 April 2009 01:55:23 PM. © CR4 - Recent Blog Entries

From Engadget: Think the PRT podcar is the pod that will re-invent transportation? Prepare to get those opinions railed, as the RailPod is on its way to get you where you're going -- and to put all those striking cabbies out of work. The idea is that unused (or underused) railway l

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NASA Testing Next Generation Firefighting Gear
for Fires... In Spaaace! [Space]

post from CR4 - Recent Blog Entries on 06 April 2009 01:54:03 PM. © CR4 - Recent Blog Entries

From Gizmodo: In space, no one can hear you scream "Fire." Not that it'd matter, as few people could recognize a microgravity fire anyway. This means space firefighting gear needs to be special. NASA is on it. First, a primer. Fire in microgravity isn't the flickering kind that

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World's Fastest Kettle: Steam Supercar to
Break 170MPH Barrier [Real Steam]

post from CR4 - Recent Blog Entries on 06 April 2009 01:52:01 PM. © CR4 - Recent Blog Entries

From Gizmodo: This is the World's Fastest Kettle. That's what Charles Burnett III calls his steam supercar, which will race at 170mph over the Mojave Desert this coming June. Yes, I can't believe it either. The 25-foot-long steam supercar has a theoretical speed of 170mph. It us

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What goes up must come down

post from The Island of Doubt on 06 April 2009 01:19:53 PM. © The Island of Doubt

Very few relationships in this world are monotonic. Not the price of stocks, not the traffic on this blog, and not global climate trends. Maybe if more people understood this, we'd have less nonsense about climate change clogging the media.

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