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December 2010 Archives - Luke of Stone
Operation Robolaundry – One small folded shirt for man, one gigantically awesome use for robots
Operation Robolaundry. Objective: solve one of man’s most ancient challenges, doing laundry.
RoboFlush – a homemade automatic toilet flushing robot
In research for Operation Robolaundry, I came across these bathroom-enhancing robotic inventions.
Toilet paper folder and dispensor robot
Building the Starship Enterprise and planet Earth in MineCraft
I first heard about MineCraft when my brother showed me a Wimp.com video of a 1 to 1 scale model of the Starship Enterprise. This really set off my geek alarm. It reminds me of building with legos as a kid, only without the clean-up or money sink because you must have every Star Wars ship-building lego kit
I have been playing around with the game and having some fun. It is essentially virtual reality + legos. Enjoy some MineCraft creation videos below:
Starship Enterprise
Google Body Browser: Google Earth for the human body, all in HTML5!
Google Body Browser lets you explore the human body within your web browser. This video is a demo of Body Browser that shows how you can slide a bar to show skin, bones, internal organs, the nervous system and the brain. This is all done using HTML5 technology, which is stirring up the web world by producing these type of powerful visualizations without using Flash, right inside your browser.
Google Body Browser Demo Video
Hans Rosling’s 200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes – The Joy of Stats – BBC Four
Hans visualizes 200 years of change in health and wealth in the world. Quick, everyone grab a kombucha and sell a t-shirt!
via @dbonneville
YouTube testing new “Watch it later” f…
YouTube testing new “Watch it later” feature for embedded videos via @ScepticGeek http://goo.gl/KvT1v