Archive for July 24th, 2009

Handerpants – Underpants For Your Hands

Are you someone who is conscious of your hands? Do they feel bare to you? Perhaps they need some extra support. Well Handerpants now holds the solution and at just $11.95 a pair they are a real bargain.

For full details visit www.handerpants.com. Hilarious!

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Baseball Playing Robots

Now this is a really cool piece of technology. Researchers at the University of Tokyo have managed to create a robot that can pitch to a separate robot who has a near-perfect swing. Check out the video.

The robot pitcher consists of a high-speed, three-fingered hand (developed by professor Masatoshi Ishikawa and his team from the Graduate School of Information Science and Technology) mounted on a mechanical arm (developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology). With superb control of nimble fingers that can open and close at a rate of up to 10 times per second, the robot can release the ball with perfect timing. Precise coordination between the fingers, hand and arm allow the robot pitcher to hit the strike zone 90% of the time.

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CSS Is Amazing Mug

If you’ve worked with CSS I’m sure this mug will make you laugh. It’s like CSS in ie6.

You can buy one at Zazzle.com for $12.95. A great present for any web designer.

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Skating A Roller Coaster – The Video

I recently left a post about Dirk Auer, the man who set a new world record for in-line skating down a roller coaster. Well, here’s the video!

Previously:

• Riding A Roller Coaster On Skates

Extraordinary Wedding Entrance

This is not your standard wedding march. This rather flamboyant couple wanted to incorporate their own taste into the proceedings. Check it out.

Giant ‘Soap Bubble’ Found In Space

A giant soap bubble has been spotted floating around in space, which astronomers say is a newly discovered planetary nebula.

A planetary nebula is the product that is left when an aging star, which can weight up to eight times the mass of the sun, ejects its outer layers as clouds of luminous gas.

The bubble, which was officially named PN G75.5+1.7 last week, was found by Dave Jurasevich of the Mount Wilson Observatory in California and later by other amateur astronomers.

“It’s a beautiful example,” says Adam Frank of the University of Rochester, New York. “Spherical ones are very rare.”

Personally, I wouldn’t have called it PN G75.5+1.7. That just doesn’t roll off the tongue.

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