Wave power hasn’t yet made a splash because it’s hard to use waves to spin turbines, and because the sea is a harsh place to build things. To learn more, start your googling with these keywords: ... continue reading

posted by newtboy 5 years ago • 877 views • 3:16

They keep asking me. I keep telling them I am notarobot, but they never seem to remember. At least not for very long.

posted by notarobot 5 years 3 months ago • 389 views • 7:40

In which Half as Interesting explains the Machine Identification Code covertly printed in yellow dots by virtually all colour printers.

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 5 months 3 weeks ago • 1,648 views • 5:45

YouTube description: Compliant mechanisms have lots of advantages over traditional devices. SimpliSafe is awesome security. It's really effective, easy to use, and the price is great. Check out SimpliSafe... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 9 months 1 week ago • 1,004 views • 12:52

YouTube description: Using machine-learning and sensory hardware, Alberto Rodriguez, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, and members of MIT's MCube lab have developed a robot that is learning... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 10 months 3 weeks ago • 530 views • 1:21

YouTube description: On August 8th, 1918, Allied forces in France launched the Hundred Days Offensive, one of the first combined arms operations of the war that included hundreds of tanks, airplanes,... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 3 weeks ago • 397 views • 3:15

This is the story of America's massive forging presses built during the cold war used to build America's most advanced machinery - the Heavy Press Program. Modern airplanes, missiles, helicopters, turbines... continue reading

posted by nanrod 6 years 4 weeks ago • 528 views • 12:48

Holly visits The Captain with a request to debunk a machine that miraculously sorts coloured marbles.

posted by Fantomas 6 years 5 months 3 weeks ago • 543 views • 11:03

YouTube description: The Galton Board is a 7.5” by 4.5” desktop probability machine. This device brings to life the statistical concept of normal distribution. As you rotate the Galton Board... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 7 months 2 weeks ago • 808 views • 3:23

YouTube description: Let's find out how they put 3D images into glass objects. Known as a 'Bubblegram', vitrography or sub-surface laser engraving, this technology has been around for a very long time... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 8 months 1 week ago • 308 views • 6:28

"What goes on inside that cremation machine? ..."

posted by ant 6 years 8 months 1 week ago • 65 views • 6:43

Bill nominates, perhaps only provocatively, James Bosnack's cigarette machine as the invention with the greatest economic impact on the 20th century. Cigarettes, as compared to pipes and cigars, are and... continue reading

posted by bobknight33 6 years 10 months 1 week ago • 90 views • 2:41

From YT: Video highlighting my research on PowerPoint Turing Machines for CMU's SIGBOVIK 2017 From me: So it turns out PowerPoint is Years ago when I discovered you could export PowerPoint files... continue reading

posted by Ickster 6 years 11 months 2 weeks ago • 58 views • 5:34

YouTube description: Don't feel bad. You don't suck, the game makers do. (via laughingsquid.com)

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 11 months 2 weeks ago • 2,315 views • 7:58

On the morning of July 7, 1944, Captain Ben L. Salomon of the U.S. Army’s 105th Infantry, commissioned as a dentist, single-handedly held off a fierce attack of an overwhelming force of Japanese soldiers... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 6 years 11 months 3 weeks ago • 44 views • 6:24

YouTube description: Cliff explains his passion for two Friden EC-132s. Extra discussion and explanation at: https://youtu.be/HwZO4EXMMm0 More Cliff videos: http://bit.ly/Cliff_Videos Calculator... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 2 weeks ago • 1,025 views • 9:20

YouTube description: These are the molecular machines inside your body that make cell division possible. Animation by Drew Berry at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research. http://wehi.tv ... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 4 weeks ago • 1,063 views • 6:21