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Wednesday Links: Smile TV, New Materials...
Solar botics
July 16, 2014
Brief summary of today's short issue: it is about squishy mice robots that feed on the dark matter, live in weird motors and make TVs smile.
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Smile TV Pretty retro-looking 4-legged TV leaves you smiling like an idiot in order to watch anything. (Via Designboom) |
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How Squishy Would You Like Your Robot? Finally science moving in the right direction - making robotics more human-like and organic like. Squishy is good! (Via IEEE Spectrum) |
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The Weirdest Engine Hopefully it works just as good as it looks... (Via Gizmodo) |
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Super Black Material Aside from all jokes about ninjas, goths and little black dresses, this is mesmerizing and I can't stop staring at it. (Via IFL Science) |
...as opposed to mice that feed on light.
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