You might already have realised that I like discovering interesting ways to make music (which is why the HARP appealed to me), so this “instrument” based on lunar topographical data sparked my interest.

Take a robot pitcher, constructed with a mechanical arm and a high-speed, three-fingered hand that can open and close at up to 10 times per second, and a robot batter with 1,000fps cameras, and you have the beginnings of a cyber-baseball team.
Here’s a video including slow-motion replay:

Found this cool illustration depicting what extra-terrestrial life-forms might be watching right now, assuming they exist, have the relevant technology and are monitoring our TV signals.

A guy has created a thermal lance, built out of bacon, to cut metal.
Bacon is fattening because it contains a lot of chemical energy tied up in its proteins, and especially in its fat. You can release that energy either by digesting it or by burning it with a healthy supply of oxygen. The challenge [...]

It’s a stereotypical geek (nerd, perhaps) dream – the invention of underwear that you don’t have to waste time changing every day yet remains pong free.
Created by boffins in Tokyo, J-Ware “stink-free” underwear is being tested by Koichi Wakata, currently orbiting the earth on the International Space Station.

I love Google Earth, though it’s one of those apps that I have to limit myself on because otherwise I’d spend all day zooming around its terrain instead of working, eating, sleeping…
So it’s good news that GeoEye has started delivering some of the high-resolution color images from its latest satellite – GeoEye-1 – to Google. [...]

I saw this post over at Geeks Are Sexy called 25 Incredibly Geeky T-Shirts and it inspired me to go out and find a few really cool geek t-shirts myself. Most of the geeky t-shirts over at GAS were from ThinkGeek and very programmer oriented so I decided to find some great ones NOT [...]

Reading the title of the entry, you wou would think ‘Why would I do that, I never have beer leftovers! And although I only very rarely drink beer I must agree with that. But the folks at E-Fuel claim that regular household sugar or even beer can generate lots of biofuel with their E-Fuel 100.
For [...]

The Playstation 3 has been used for other purposes other than gaming because of the potentially powerful Cell process. In fact, Folding@Home is a standard “feature” of the console. This is Stanford University’s project for researching cures for many types of diseases. Folding@Home uses the unused processing power of the PS3 to simulate protein folding. [...]

Here’s a brilliant idea! Not really sure why for the past decade NO ONE has spotted this, really! Kudos to the Netherlands based company, Royal Boon Edam Group Holding, for creating the world’s first energy generating revolving door.
One of its first units are installed at the Driebergen-Zeist railway station in Holland. You know [...]

The Supernova Cosmology Project announced that it has a found an “unidentified object“. Before you all go painting pictures of martians in your head, the said object is located within the area designated as CL1432.5+3332.8.
The said cluster was observed to grow in luminosity for about 100 days and reached a brightness of the 21st magnitude [...]

Scientists in the USA are a step closer to developing an invisibility cloak suitable for people and potentially even vehicles in the near future.  Researchers at the University of California have developed a material that can bend light around 3D objects – making them, to all intents and purposes, simply vanish into thin air.
The materials [...]