It seems that Leonardo Da Vinci hasn’t ceased to astound. This month’s Wired has an article about a three-wheeled cart designed by Leonardo that may actually be a “physically programmable robot”:http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.11/davinci.html. As Keanu would say, “_Whoa._”
Category Archives: Technology
Space, it’s what’s for dinner
I’ll have details of my own space exploration soon, but for now I’m sure you’ll be excited to hear about the new Space Prize, Robert Bigelow’s follow-on to the X Prize. It’s a $50 million prize for the first vehicle that can reach low earth orbit and dock with Nautilus, his proposed orbiting hotel. Go, space folks!
How to make your plants sing
I bet it was unrelenting brown thumbery and general frustration with the higher-level voodoo that is biochemistry that led these engineers to master their foliage in ways no horticulturist, nor the foliage itself, could have ever imagined. The hills really could be alive with the sound of music.
Another reason to buy a Mac…
…["the price":http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/36120.html]. It’s a real Apples-to-apples comparison between comparable Dell (sorry, Jaime) and Apple offerings, based solely on price. (Can you spot the one flawed point?)
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How real is real?
OK, a question for the jewelry enthusiasts among you. Does it matter if a diamond was mined in Africa or “manufactured in Florida”:http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.09/diamond.html ? If diamonds stop being expensive and rare, are they still beautiful? Are they still desirable?