News: Dexterous Bot Kicks Human-Butt at Pen Spinning
You can try and try, but all the practice in the world can't compete with this robotic hand's pen spinning skills.
You can try and try, but all the practice in the world can't compete with this robotic hand's pen spinning skills.
First thing's first. Remember Pee Wee's amazing breakfast machine? For those who missed out, watch (best YouTube version dubbed in Italian): Who dares compete with Pee Wee?
Gun shots, dog mauling, compound fractures, partially severed limbs... Sometimes direct pressure isn't enough to cut the blood loss. This U.S. Army field instructional is a fascinating and thorough medic's walkthrough. Learn exactly how to apply a lifesaving tourniquet to an injured limb. No first aid poster can compete with the unmistakable deadpan of a military issue instructional. Only the American Army could deliver such eyewitness first aid advice. Bookmark this. If you're ever stuck bet...
Movie fans—it's that time again—the Oscars. You can finally see who wins for Best Actress, Best Director or Best Screenplay tomorrow night during the 83rd Academy Awards at 8 p.m. (EST) on ABC. For those of you on the west coast, that would be 5 p.m. (PST).
This video is by Adrian McLaughlin, aka plasticraincoat1 on YouTube, who shows us one of the most magnificent examples of explosive polymerization ever. In the video, what appears to be about 1/2 tsp of p-nitroaniline (which is short for para-nitroaniline, which is also referred to as 4-nitroaniline) is treated with a few drops of concentrated sulfuric acid, in a ceramic dish, over a Bunsen burner flame.
I came across these beautiful wallpapers while browsing +Guy Kawasaki's Google+ stream. Basically, someone combined Calvin and Hobbes with the OS X Lion desktop wallpaper to make some truly fun artwork. Click on the link for access to the full-resolution wallpapers.
I write for a movie site called Flixist, a sister-site of Destructoid. Basically, I write movie news, reviews, features, and interviews. I wrote this for our feature series Flixist Film School. It's a primer into film editing technique.
Cory's post with instructions and templates Here's my first attempt at the 30 squares model. I needed to be a little bit more careful in the measuring and cutting as not everything matches up - but it is still a really pleasing shape.
Justin Bee outlines a method to update Facebook from your Google+ account without actually having to go download an extension. Basically you set up your Facebook account to receive your Google+ posts as email to your Facebook Wall. There's a limitation though - text will truncate after 50 characters, so make sure your messages to Facebook users are short and sweet.
For Christmas i will be getting a brand new computer a*IMAC AIR* and then for my birthday i will be getting an IPOD TOUCH i basically come from a family that does not have a lot of money but i still get big stuff for holidays so cant wait and i will keep you's up to date on facebok and youtube and twitter if you can find me. OH im also on USTREAM so i can chat to you every now and then and i will be uploading houses to youtube and here every first day of the month
Know how some people have a natural way of lighting up a room? Well, hacker i-am-jen has an artificial one—LED sneakers! Powered by a pair of 6-volt batteries and two teeny-tiny RBBB Arduino microcontrollers, the shoes offer a high-tech, DIY spin on the mass-market L.A. Lights of yesteryear: Interested in kickstarting your own LED shoe project? You'll find Jen's step-by-step here.
Serious triathlon training involves energy expenditures upwards of 5,000 to 6,000 calories a day. Maintaining the level of food consumption for this kind of output means that triathletes in training are basically eating lots, and eating often. Renowned celebrity chef and Ironman triathlete Rocco DiSpirito recommends eating lots of bananas, peanut butter & jelly, lean proteins, fruits, vegetables and organic chicken stock to get the food intake levels up to that point.
Here is the brand new teaser trailer for REAL STEAL coming out in 2011. I believe this was a twilight zone episode at least there was one with a similar premise. Basically in the future boxing is outlawed so we create robots to battle it out in the boxing arena. Looks like Rocky meets Transformers if you ask me. cast:
Basically what you do is go around the street as old people (again) and throw poo at people. but make it look like you just shat yourself and pull it out your pants and just lob it. totally awesome! the stunt involves all the jackass crew and i doesn't have to be real shit but you can if you want. hope to see you guys in hollywood.
Yes. That's right. The 2010 National SCRABBLE Championship (NSC) is almost here. In fact, it starts in less than 2 weeks! And if you were lucky enough to register for the competitions, you could win a first place prize of $10,000!
Hillel Cooperman gave this presentation on the adult LEGO community at a recent "IGNITE" event. It basically describes how parents live vicariously through their "Childs" LEGO obsession.
This delicious Italian lamb chop recipe is very easy to prepare. Basically you cook the lamb chops with tomato sauce. Make Italian style lamb chops.
A tic tac is basically just a kick off a wall to provide some height before landing on two feet. This is used to get over various objects that the athlete doesn't want to (or can't) touch. If the object is near a wall, it provides the perfect opportunity to propel themselves over and past the object with a quick kick. Do a Parkour tic tac.
England star John Amaechi shows you how to make a three-point shot. It's basically a free through shot at a longer distance. Make a 3 point shot.
Rules below may not make sense if you're new to QuarkXPress, but it's basically a way of setting conditions or rules for paragraph attribute that fall BELOW the selected text. Learn just how to use the rules below option in this silent tutorial. Make sure you click on "video tutorial sections" in the top left corner and pick the lesson. Use the rule below option in QuarkXPress.
basically get bam to think his parents died in a terrible accident be all serious dress bams parents up all dead like and at the funeral have the coffin explode after bout 10 mins have his parents skateboard in and surprise bam...that should teach that short b****d....''
Last weekend the 2011 World Scrabble Championship was held at the Hilton Hotel in Warsaw, Poland. There were 106 players competing from 44 countries for the $20,000 first place prize and title of World Scrabble Champion.
The title basically explains it all, you hook up 2 or 3 electrodes to a toilet seat inside of a port-o-let or some other restroom where the guys visit, place a camera in one of the top corners of the room, or port-o-let, to monitor who's going in, and when they have a seat to drop a deuce, zap them. It would probably be best to wait a while until they get somewhat comfortable enough to drop some cargo. That way, they could spring up from the shock and make a satisfying mess. Thanks you guys, ...
In this clip, learn how to mod an ordinary wax candle so that you can store a stash inside it. The best part about this stash box - other than the fact that its easy to make and basically free - is that the candle will still burn normally so no one will ever suspect something's up! So, no matter what you are hiding - try this cool hack and keep your stuff safe. Hide your stash inside a candle.
Creating a relish is easier than you think, and this bacon-corn relish is the easiest of all, not to mention deliciously sweet. You basically just throw all the ingredients together and mix. You don't need to be a master chef to make this relish.
This video shows advance resistance workout for lower body and abs. This is a level 2 band work out video. To do this you need the bands. First wrap the bands tightly around both of your hands. In the first exercise to do the butt blaster go into a cat position. Hold the bands in between your feet and you hands and start kicking your legs back in the air. The instructor shows how this exercise helps to workout the lower body. You should at lest do a couple of this kicks to achieve any reasona...
This version of the slip knot is basically a uni knot tied with rope and with just one or two wraps around the double line. It does the trick and is easy to tie.
This interactive Kodak EasyShare camera tutorial takes you through every step necessary to setup the time and date for your pictures and videos. If you have a Kodak EasyShare digital camera, you're going to need to know how to do this important step in maintaining and using your camera. Let Kodak teach you how. It's easy to set the time and date for great record keeping of your photos and videos, and is basically the same on all Kodak EasyShare digital cameras. Set date and time on a Kodak Ea...
This interactive Kodak EasyShare camera tutorial takes you through every step necessary to review your pictures and videos. If you have a Kodak EasyShare digital camera, you're going to need to know how to do this important step in maintaining and using your camera. Let Kodak teach you how. It's easy to look at your videos and pictures, reviewing them for beautiful or unwanted files, and is basically the same on all Kodak EasyShare digital cameras. Review photos and videos on a Kodak EasyShar...
This interactive Kodak EasyShare camera tutorial takes you through every step necessary to email pictures and videos. If you have a Kodak EasyShare digital camera, you're going to need to know how to do this important step in maintaining and using your camera. Let Kodak teach you how. It's easy to send those videos and photos to your loved ones from your camera connected to your computer, and is basically the same on all Kodak EasyShare digital cameras. Email pictures and videos on a Kodak Ea...
This interactive Kodak EasyShare camera tutorial takes you through every step necessary to print pictures. If you have a Kodak EasyShare digital camera, you're going to need to know how to do this important step in maintaining and using your camera. Let Kodak teach you how. It's easy to print beautiful photographs from your camera for sharing, and is basically the same on all Kodak EasyShare digital cameras. You cannot print videos though, but who doesn't know that. Print pictures from your K...
This interactive Kodak EasyShare camera tutorial takes you through every step necessary to crop pictures. If you have a Kodak EasyShare digital camera, you're going to need to know how to do this important step in maintaining your camera and photos. Let Kodak teach you how. It's easy to crop photos right in your hands and is basically the same on all Kodak EasyShare digital cameras. Crop pictures with a Kodak EasyShare digital camera.
This interactive Kodak EasyShare camera tutorial takes you through every step necessary to make panoramic pictures. If you have a Kodak EasyShare digital camera, you're going to need to know how to do this important step in using your camera. Let Kodak teach you how. It's easy to create panoramic photos by stitching up to three pictures, and is basically the same on all Kodak EasyShare digital cameras. Make panoramic pictures on a Kodak EasyShare camera.
This interactive Kodak EasyShare camera tutorial takes you through every step necessary to set picture quality. If you have a Kodak EasyShare digital camera, you're going to need to know how to do this important step in maintaining your camera. Let Kodak teach you how. It's easy to setup the photo quality, the size of the image, the resolution, and is basically the same on all Kodak EasyShare digital cameras. Set picture quality on a Kodak EasyShare camera.
This interactive Kodak EasyShare camera tutorial takes you through every step necessary to delete pictures and videos. If you have a Kodak EasyShare digital camera, you're going to need to know how to do this important step in maintaining your camera. Let Kodak teach you how. It's easy to remove unwanted media and is basically the same on all Kodak EasyShare digital cameras. Delete pictures and videos on a Kodak EasyShare camera.
Basically 2 ideas, one more creative than the other..Falling sky Pretty simple and doesnt take alot of imagination. Find a way to rig thousands of set mousetraps on a ceiling or something, and release them as soon as the victim enters the room. I think it would be most effective in a warehouse or something big. RoomdivingWell, we all know how the military drops tanks and such out of airplanes, well, what if there was a way to drop a purpose built room from an airplane? (With the SLEEPING vict...
Installing a chair rail will create a dramatic addition to any room. A chair rail is basically a piece of molding that runs along the middle of your room's perimeter. Not only does a chair rail protect your walls from furniture, but it can be a creative addition to your interior design, as well.
Welcome everyone Today i will show you a simple but very useful way to stop your ip leaks . In order to stay anonymous on the web you HAVE to do this.
Business owners and marketeers are diverting from traditional marketing techniques, including billboards, radio and TV advertising, brochures, and any other outdoor promotions, to cheaper but effective Internet marketing strategies. Under the new arrangement, business owners reach out to the final consumers through advertising on the World Wide Web.
Zynga just added another game to their Zynga with Friends series called Scramble with Friends. If you've ever played Boggle, it's basically the same thing, but is dedicated to playing your buddies just like Words with Friends or Hanging with Friends.