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Archive for the ‘Science’ Category

BaR2D2: All Your Booze Are Belong To Us

Friday, January 9th, 2009

Everyone meet BaR2D2, the robot that Bender has fantasies about. And I would suspect most of you will as well. Except for you bartenders. Your days are numbered my drink slingers.

BaR2D2 is a robot mobile bar that was created by Jamie Price. This sexy thing on wheels has the following bling:

motorized beer elevator
motorized ice/mixer drawer
six-bottle shot dispenser
sound activated neon lighting

And here’s the best part – James has given directions on how you can make your own BaR2D2 via Instructable!

30 Ways To Die Of Electrocution

Monday, December 15th, 2008

Photographer bre pettis took a trip to the Technisches museum in Vienna. There he took a series of photographs of the “30 Ways to Die of Electrocution” exhibition. Now you’ll know at least 30 means of shocking yourself to death. And knowing is half the battle…

Source – Boing Boing

Vampire Moth Discovered

Monday, December 1st, 2008

Entomologist Jennifer Zaspel and her team have found moths that will drill their hook-and-barb-lined tongues under the skin and suck you blood. Thought to be an evolutionary jump from drinking the juices of fruit, these tiny winged blood suckers from Russia are virtually indistinguishable from their central and southern European fruit drinking cousins.

Those who suffer from Mottephobia (the fear of moths) and Sanguivoriphobia (the fear of vampires) can now proceed to freak the hell out.

Source – National Geographic News

Beware The Carnivorous Brain Worm! [Kind of NSFW - Brain Meats Shown]

Tuesday, November 25th, 2008

Doctors thought that Rosemary Alvarez of Phoenix had a brain tumor at the base of her brain stem. That is until they got her onto the operating table and discovered something even more unsightly… a parasitic worm named Taenia solium, also known as a pork tapeworm. And how did Mrs. Alvarez end up with a tapeworm nuzzled around her brain stem you might ask? By eating food tainted with the feces of a person infected with the pork tapeworm parasite. Yes, her food had traces of poo in it because someone didn’t wash their hands properly.

“It wasn’t that she had poor hygiene, she was just a victim,” said Rosemary’s neurosurgeon Dr. Peter Nakaji.

So the lesson to learn here kids is to wash your hands after you take a dump for fuck’s sake! Or Mother Nature is gonna give you the Carnivorous Brain Worms.

Drinking Coffee In Zero-G Environment

Tuesday, November 25th, 2008

From last night’s video feed on NASA TV, Dr. Don Pettit shows us that Man will always find ways to get their caffeine fix.

1/10 Scale Nautilus

Wednesday, November 5th, 2008

Vulcania Submarine

Above is pictured one Pat Regan with his 1/10 scale working replica of the Nautilus from the film 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. Is is obviously one of the coolest people in the universe.

He’s a massive fan of the film and has also built other replicas from the film including underwater rifles and diving suits, and restored one of the film’s original diving suits. He even has instructions on how to build your own replica Nemo rifle. Pretty swank my friends.

To see all of the projects he’s done, of which most include production notes, check out Regan’s site at Vulcania Submarine.

Source – Dethroner

Large Hadron Collider

Tuesday, September 9th, 2008

Tomorrow will dawn a big day in the scientific community, let alone the world in general, when the switch is thrown to the massive Large Hadron Collider, the world’s largest particle accelerator which will collide beams of protons. Once that happens one of two things will happen…

1. Science FTW! Scientists finally discover the ever elusive “God Particle”, which is the only elementary particle that has never been observed by science, the observation of which could confirm the predictions and missing links in the Standard Model of physics and could explain how other elementary particles acquire properties such as mass.

2. We’re Doomed! The high-energy particle collisions performed might produce dangerous phenomena, including micro black holes, strangelets, vacuum bubbles and magnetic monopoles. Kiss your ass goodbye!

So, if you’re an optimist you can actually watch the LHC start up in real time via the CERN video broadcast. If your a doomsayer, well I guess you can hunker down and keep an eye on things at the Has The Large Hardon Collider Destroyed The Earth Yet? site.

Either way we here at Zombie Monkey Projects will be cracking open a fine bottle of booze to salute science… or curse it.

MythBusters Paint With 2100 Barrel Paintball Gun

Friday, August 29th, 2008

Adam and Jamie of MythBusters created a massive 2100 barrel paintball gun to create their own version of the Mona Lisa – all in one single shot. And it looks pretty damned good.

The big gun took six months of work to create and was for Nvidia’s Nvision tradeshow. Named Mona Lisa, it was used as part of a demonstration (on an absurdly large scale) on the difference between a CPU and a GPU, the massive paint gun representing the GPU and a smaller robot seen at the beginning of the video named Smiley being the CPU.

Beyond the fact that most of us mortals could give a rat’s ass about the difference between a CPU and a GPU, this demonstration was of a typical MythBusters level of over the top we know and love them for.

Source – Gizmodo

North Korea develops special anti-hunger noodles

Tuesday, August 26th, 2008

That crazy despot, Kim Jong-gil, is at it again. His scientists claim to have invented a new kind of noodle that delays feelings of hunger. These hunger-busting noodles apparently have have twice the amount of protein and fives times the fat as ordinary wheat or corn noodles.

A Japan-based pro-Pyongyang newspaper reports “When you consume ordinary noodles (made from wheat or corn), you may soon feel your stomach empty. But this soybean noodle delays such a feeling of hunger.”

This past July, the World Food Programme warned that six million people in North Korea were in dire need of food due to the severe flooding last year.

Now if only they could invent a better hairstyle for their industrious leader and some killer dauphins with lasers shooting out of their eyes we may have the recipe to solve all of Earth’s problems.

Source – BBC

Rat Brains + Robots = DOOM!

Monday, August 25th, 2008

I’m sure that by now many of you have seen or read about professor Kevin Warwick of the University of Reading and his colleagues creating a robot that uses the tissue of rat brains to do the voodoo it do. But if you haven’t here’s a brief synopsis:

Meet Gordon, probably the world’s first robot controlled exclusively by living brain tissue.

Stitched together from cultured rat neurons, Gordon’s primitive grey matter was designed at the University of Reading by scientists who unveiled the neuron-powered machine on Wednesday. [...]

Because the brain is living tissue, it must be housed in a special temperature-controlled unit — it communicates with its “body” via a Bluetooth radio link. The robot has no additional control from a human or computer.

From the very start, the neurons get busy. “Within about 24 hours, they start sending out feelers to each other and making connections,” said Warwick. “Within a week we get some spontaneous firings and brain-like activity” similar to what happens in a normal rat — or human — brain, he added.

I for one welcome our soon to be Ratobot overlords. Just remember my masters, I loved the film Ratatouille.