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Autonomous Laundry Folding Robot
A Willow Garage PR2 robot at UC Berkeley autonomously folding a pile of 5 previously-unseen towels. The PR2 was recently featured in a poster by…
Steven Levy Revisits “Hackers” 25 Years Later
The current issue of Wired Magazine features a cover story written by Steven Levy where he revisits some of the people he profied in his…
Iggy The Cat Investigates An iPad
iPads are not just for 2.5 year-olds, it turns out that cats love them too!
San Francisco Made From LEGOs at LEGOLAND
photos by Chris Saulit Chris Saulit recently shot some great photos of a miniature version of San Francisco made using LEGOs that is on display…
Unreleased iPhone 4G Found in Redwood City Bar
Gizmodo got their hands of an unreleased next generation Apple iPhone 4G that was accidentally dropped in a Redwood City bar. Here’s their full breakdown…
Anatomy Of A Tribble
Anatomy Of A Tribble, from the Starfleet Medical Reference Manual.
Fake Twitter Bird Pranks SXSW
ZUG decided to pull a prank at SXSW 2010 by sneaking a guy in a fake Twitter bird suit into the keynote given by…
How To Assemble A Raygun Gothic Rocketship
Almost Scientific posted a great timelapse video showing the assembly of the Raygun Gothic Rocketship at NASA’s Ames Research Center in preparation for the recent…
Feline Naval History
The US Naval Institute shares some great photos of Cats in the Sea Services. Sailors and cats have a special relationship that dates back thousands…
Kitty – A Russian Computer Animation From 1968
This short animation of a kitten could quite possibly be the world’s first ever computer generated film. Created by a team of Russian physicists and…