Disney Researchers Create A Way To Make Geared Figures That Look Amazingly Life-Like

For centuries the creation of geared automata has been sort of a dark art. To design a mechanical device to move like a human or animal was a trick in itself and to build the gears and rods necessary to propel the thing was even trickier. A team of Disney researchers, however, have created a system that will let puppeteers... (Read more!)

Kerbal Engineering

You've heard of rocket science, 

you've heard of bottle rockets, 

you've heard of Russia engineering,

you've heard of  the Russian N1 right?
(you couldn't possibly do much worse...)

KERBAL SPACE PROGRAM NEEDS YOU!

Intrested

After All how hard could rocket science be anyway...

Making a robot out of the Kinect

A few years ago I noticed that researchers, programmers, and dorks alike were doing interesting things with the Kinect (a gaming console, for the unfamiliar). One thing they found the Kinect (or, rather, two Kinects working together) can do is look around objects.

Here's an article to look at several projects that have resulted from playing with the Kinect.

A 3D-printed jumbo jet?

Designer Bastian Schaefer shows off a speculative design for the future of jet planes, with a skeleton inspired by strong, flexible, natural forms and by the needs of the world's, ahem, growing population. Imagine an airplane that's full of light and space -- and built up from generative parts in a 3D printer.

(Watch this!)

Computer Modeling of Nuclear Explosions

Los Alamos National Laboratories uses incredibly energy-intensive super computers to model complex mathematical descriptions of nuclear blasts and what's happening inside them.



Check it out!