Nov. 8th, 2008

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Martin 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)



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