dog food

Self folding origami from Harvard University and M.I.T.

and Self-Assembling 3D Shapes from Brown and Johns Hopkins Universities.

MikroKopter – HexaKopter from Holger Buss.

by Amelia (a Cloud Farm experiment).

I’ve been around the DIY / hacking world for a while now, thought I knew the field, but this site is amazing.

Apple giveth a new toy for dicking about with.

c. 1940

from LIFE Magazine’s ‘30 Dumb Inventions‘

As links between mobile phone usage and brain tumours become more evident there is some good news, mobile phones may also enhance your memory and prevent the development of Alzheimer’s disease.

Via LiveScience

Yesterday was the 43rd anniversary of the death and subsequent freezing of Dr. Bedford – the worlds first successful cryogenics patient (successful in the fact that he is still frozen and, unfortunately, also still dead).

Quoting from the 1967 issue of Freeze-Wait-Reanimate,

there may be some hope for reanimation in the distant future when reanimation techniques have been perfected and a cure for cancer [the cause of death] has been found. [1]

Dr. Bedford, a retired psychology professor from Los Angeles, was 73 at the time of the procedure. Below we see Dr Bedford’s daughter-in-law Cecilia patiently awaiting his return.

Images from Cryonics 1991

Developed at the Toronto General Hospital. via

Continuing in the theme of humans-imitating-technology, I present these two videos from Rory.