Videos and some-such
Nov. 8th, 2008 10:52 amMartin Laing on creating the look of Terminator 4. Giant robot walkers, robot motorcycles, and underwater robots in addition to the usual terminator-sans-skin robot.
Erase your hard drive (oh, and most of your computer) using thermite.
A firefighter's manual in how to deal with UFO attacks ('cause they happen so often, you know?)
Repo! The Genetic Opera displays a musical dystopian future that horror fans (read: not me) might enjoy.
Grace Jones does some weird vampire-stripper-thingy in this scene from a 1980s comedy Vamp. It's marked as NSFW but may be because brain-bleach may be required after exposure.
Weird Science party gets students arrested when they were mistaken for terrorists. The care-taker of the property was also arrested under the Anti-Terrorism Act. Everyone was later released and the property was declared non-suspicious. No video, but an interesting news article.
A Watchmen featurette on Sally Jupiter.
The Large Hadron Collider, explained in rap or read the lyrics here. It's a cute video, showing that scientists have a sense of humour, too.
UFO over Gdansk, an art project demonstrated during the Gdansk Festival of Stars on July 1st.
Edit: and some more...
The HONDA walking-assist device lets you sit down while walking and is meant to reduce the load on people's legs when they are undergoing rehabilitative therapy.
A clip from Robot Japan that features, about 27 seconds into the clip, a Spider robot chair that handles stairs.
Apartment-in-a-box ready-made apartment furniture. From, of course, Japan.
BBC's Human 2.0 from 2006 explores human enhancements (running time is 48 minutes)
Erase your hard drive (oh, and most of your computer) using thermite.
A firefighter's manual in how to deal with UFO attacks ('cause they happen so often, you know?)
Repo! The Genetic Opera displays a musical dystopian future that horror fans (read: not me) might enjoy.
Grace Jones does some weird vampire-stripper-thingy in this scene from a 1980s comedy Vamp. It's marked as NSFW but may be because brain-bleach may be required after exposure.
Weird Science party gets students arrested when they were mistaken for terrorists. The care-taker of the property was also arrested under the Anti-Terrorism Act. Everyone was later released and the property was declared non-suspicious. No video, but an interesting news article.
A Watchmen featurette on Sally Jupiter.
The Large Hadron Collider, explained in rap or read the lyrics here. It's a cute video, showing that scientists have a sense of humour, too.
UFO over Gdansk, an art project demonstrated during the Gdansk Festival of Stars on July 1st.
Edit: and some more...
The HONDA walking-assist device lets you sit down while walking and is meant to reduce the load on people's legs when they are undergoing rehabilitative therapy.
A clip from Robot Japan that features, about 27 seconds into the clip, a Spider robot chair that handles stairs.
Apartment-in-a-box ready-made apartment furniture. From, of course, Japan.
BBC's Human 2.0 from 2006 explores human enhancements (running time is 48 minutes)