MIT researchers developed a robot that can play Jenga based on a novel approach to machine learning that synthesizes sight and touch. From MIT News: Alberto Rodriguez, the Walter Henry… Read the rest of the article: This robot plays Jenga to demonstrate the future of manufacturing
Smart toilets that analyze urine and poop in the bowl have been demonstrated for years, but now Rochester Institute of Technology engineers have integrated multiple kinds of biosensors into the… Read the rest of the article: This toilet seat checks your heart health
Following on Willie Nelson's "Willie's Reserve" cannabis brand, the music icon and weed enthusiast has launched the new Willie's Remedy line of CBD-infused health and wellness products, starting with coffee.… Read the rest of the article: Willie Nelson's new hemp coffee
Yes, as seen below, somehow Ross with Nicolas Cage's face makes him look even more like Ross. But now comes the discovery of this lost Friends episode above, "The One… Read the rest of the article: Friends: The One Where They Are ALL Nicolas Cage
African artist Laetitia Ky, 22, transforms her hair into fantastic sculptures as a hirsute form of socially-conscious art and, sometimes, just for fun. From CNN: In the Ivory Coast of… Read the rest of the article: Laetitia Ky twists her hair into fantastically intricate, socially conscious art
Genius! A serving fork would be useful for taller frames. (Creative Ideas via Kottke)
Punk legend and Boing Boing pal Bob Mould's new album Sunshine Rock is out this Friday, February 8. To tide you over, enjoy Bob's funny-'cause-it's-true music video for the track… Read the rest of the article: Bob Mould's catchy new music video about surveillance and paranoia
Bob Goldstein, a professor of cell biology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is also a talented graphic designer who creates fantastic "Gig Posters for Scientists" who… Read the rest of the article: Fantastic gig posters for scientists' lectures
Over at Riff Magazine, my old pal David Gill looks back at the birth of distortion and its position as "central to rock and roll as the sex and the… Read the rest of the article: A brief history of guitar distortion
June Chikuma is the Japanese composer behind the beloved soundtracks to Nintendo's Bomberman series and countless other videogame, TV, and film scores. Now, Chikuma's 1986 album "Divertimento" has been expanded… Read the rest of the article: Archival music collection from June Chikuma, composer of the "Bomberman" videogame soundtracks
According to the Encyclopedia of Pasta, there are hundreds of pasta shapes. At Smithsonian, Elizabeth Chu and D. Lawrence Tarazano of the US Patent Office look at relatively recent machinery… Read the rest of the article: Of pasta and patents
Forget bottle flipping. Frozen pants flipping is the new hotness (coolness?). (via r/gifs)
The 3D-printed robot above weighs just one milligram and is only 2.5mm at its longest point. Designed by University of Maryland mechanical engineer Ryan St. Pierre and his colleagues, it… Read the rest of the article: This walking microrobot is smaller than an ant's head
"It may not be pretty or tidy, and it certainly hasn't been cleaned and the floor hasn't been swept for five years at least…" In this 1982 interview, Roald Dahl,… Read the rest of the article: Inside Roald Dahl's backyard writing "hut"
The intrepid travelers of Atlas Obscura suggest nine traditional hot drinks from across the world that may seem weird to our narrow, boring palates but are quite popular in their… Read the rest of the article: Warm up with unusual international warm drinks like cheesy coffee and honey-and-bacon brandy
Mallwave is a microgenre of bedroom electronic music and smooth jazz meant to evoke nostalgia for the vibrant mall scenes of the 1980s and 1990s that many of the music's… Read the rest of the article: Mallwave: nostalgic synth music for imaginary and abandoned shopping centers
In 1994, Ikea ran this television commercial in major East Coast US markets. (Interestingly, the commercial's art director was Patrick O'Neill who went on to be Chief Creative Officer at… Read the rest of the article: This was the first US mainstream television commercial featuring a gay couple
Black Panther, on the heels of its SAG win and seven Oscar nominations including Best Picture, will play for free at 250 movie theaters for a week starting tomorrow (February… Read the rest of the article: See Black Panther on the big screen for free
Public works employees called to the scene of a sinkhole just north of Miami, Florida quickly found an electrical cord in the ditch. Turns out the, sinkhole was actually an… Read the rest of the article: Sinkhole turns out to be tunnel to bank
Author and science fiction fan Jared Gray needed a CPAP machine to treat his sleep apnea so he decided to have some maker fun with the machine. So he carved… Read the rest of the article: In space no one can hear you snore: Alien facehugger CPAP mask
