What does a mother give her daughter on her 25th birthday, who just happens to be a music and travel buff? Well my mom would give me a card and a 2 for 1 coupon for McDonald’s…but Lorraine of Fairy Meadow Miniatures went all out this year. Just look at the amazing detail in this
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Every University should have Giant Slides
‘By using this slide, you forfeit all rights to sue us.’ No this is not the lunch room at Google’s head office…This is the Technische Universitat in Munich, Germany. Those giant tubes are slides to go from the top floor to the ground level patio. The brains behind this work are the German artists Johannes
Girl loses it in a Library during Finals Week at CSUN
Ah the joy of studying for finals in a library. A new anonymous video — posted by a user who says he/she did not shoot it, but that it was shot during finals weeks at Cal State Northridge (CSUN) — has managed to hit a sensitive spot this morning. It shows an Asian student having
Culinary Masterpieces made from a 3D Printer – Edible 3D Steak
What does an engineering lab and a culinary school have in common? 3D printed food. Miniature space shuttles made of ground scallops and cheese are among the masterpieces that have already been made using 3D food printers designed by the computational synthesis laboratory at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y. Using 3D printers and pureed foods
Finally a Robot that Folds my Stinking Laundry
Aside from the beer fetching robot, this could be the next best thing in robotics – A robot that folds your laundry. Created by the masters of robotics at the University of California at Berkeley, this robot can fold clothes using green screen technology and a technique called, “background subtraction.” The technique removes the entire
A Swarm of Quadrotors unite to build a Structure
Watch how these quadrotors at UPenn’s GRASP laboratory build a structure. It’s interesting to speculate how this technology might grow out of the lab into the real world… To build actual buildings, you might need slightly much bigger quadrotors or thousands of small quadrotors cooperating in big pieces. They’re like angry robotic wasps! There’s going
The Imploding Building at the University of Technology Sydney
Architect Frank Gehry is definitely thinking outside the box on this one. What looks like an imploding building in the middle of a Beirut war zone, is actually a design for a new business school at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia. The $150 million building will have two distinct external facades, one composed of
Teacher of the Year, why couldn’t all Professors be this Cool
Where the hell was Matt Weathers when I was in University? Without a doubt Biola University professor Matt Weathers brings a whole new meaning to interactive learning. His large-scale video projector pranks not only leave the class chuckling, it also leaves you laughing, stunned, and a little bit dumbfounded. I don’t know about you, but
Rutgers Freshman Commits Suicide after classmates view his Sexual Activity | UPDATED
Tormented Tyler Clementi, 18, a freshman at Rutgers University committed suicide after two of his classmates used a hidden form room camera to expose his private sex life all over the web. According to sources, Clementi, of Ridgewood is believed to have jumped off the George Washington Bridge on Thursday, Sept. 23. The victim’s car
