Archive for the ‘Science’ Category.
The BBC straps a camera onto a Peregrine Falcon and a Gos Hawk for some amazing video. The introduction and video of a Golden Eagle in flight are also available, but the video below is the better of the two.
The IEEE spectrum website has an eye-opening video on the cutting edge of upper-limb prosthetics that is worth a moment of your time. The latest arm from Dean Kamen, inventor of the Segway, looks eerily like one from a Terminator. I suspect they are still pretty limited by the bio-interface and battery technology, but it’s just a matter of time.
A pretty amazing astronomy picture of the day from NASA. At first glance, you’ll wonder what this has to do with Astronomy, but if you look closely at the middle of the picture, you’ll notice the Comet McNaught.
The narrator is rather grating, so I’d hit mute if I were you, but the video itself is rather fascinating.