This is very groovy!  Theo Jansen designs walking machines with sensors and binary brains out of electrical tubing, hoses, and plastic bottles, all powered by the wind.

It’s like someone put legs on the captain’s chair from the starship Enterprise. Click the picture for YouTube footage Why do I have a feeling that Andy Warhol would have loved this thing? You’re gawking at the the Hubo FX-1 by Hubo Lab (the Humanoid Robot Research Center). It’s, um, well … silly looking, so […]

A project built by UC Berkeley students for class, this gizmo for folding and dispensing toilet paper is made of Legos and scrap metal. Very clever! The most complex thing I ever built with Legos was a model space ship. Now all they need to do is add a little spray of air freshener at […]

You just have to love innovation, though this is not something you’ll find hitting the mass market anytime soon. Tired of having to get up to get a beer in the middle of an important sporting event on TV? Well, a very clever engineer named John W. Cornwell devised a refrigerator that brings it to […]