09-03-08 02.59 Cool Websites (#15)

Today I think we’ll have a good run down of the best robots, their manufacturers and the new good websites to look at in a cornucopia of related fields. We’ll start with Paro the Seal Robot. See this robot as the Japanese perception of the Bhutanese mantra of Gross National Happiness as opposed to Gross National Product.

In the field of neuroscience there are a range of of contributing disciplines. One key discipline is the field of psychophysics – it is ‘based on the assumption that the human perceptual system is a measureing instrument yielding results (experiences, judgments, responses) that may be systematically analyzed.’ Apart from Paro there were a number of interesting new robots at the International Robot Exhibition in Tokyo which ran from November 28th – December 1st 2007.

29-02-08 03.16 Cool Websites (#14)

Well after the last feature in this category I’d like to return to Earth but it is 29th February – ‘From the perspective of 13:20 /4th dimensional time, February 29th is not a day. Neither is Dec. 21st or July 26th. These are just arbitrary designations placed on cycles of time.’ – well we won’t get this day again till 2012… we certainly have been having earthquakes, power outages and various large scale disasters recently. Dark times lay ahead. Meanwhile here’s a sexy Japanese catgirl!

For the best goth clothing you can get go to this Dutch shop. The European Space Agency has an excellent new site up that features a wealth of well organised images, videos and animations. Imunme Pictures have an exquisite sense of style. Certainly a Queen of Hearts.

25-01-08 02.00 Top Anime (#4)

Well it’s certainly been a long hiatus from when I last posted but I see no reason I shouldn’t start up again… after all most the videos on here still work, most the links do and I’ve got some genuinely decent material! Well done me. OK, so this time we’ll focus on animations that are perhaps a little more obscure and we’ll translate the term anime to what it actually means – all animation from all over the world. A little variation never hurt anyone. One film I saw recently that I really enjoyed was the 1999 film ‘The Iron Giant.’ Directed by Brad Bird (known for ‘The Incredibles’ and ‘Ratatouille’) it features a scene where the robot goes absolutely mental… Here it is in a nice 10-minuter… I would point out though that the majority of the film is generic Hollywood trash and that once you’ve seen this scene, seeking out this title would be a futile and ultimately unsatisfying exercise.

I suppose that one wasn’t particularly unusual…Look at this examination of what a leucocyte is, its from BioVision, doing their thing at Harvard…inner life of a cell …what goes on behind closed doors… or even under them… I wonder how large a magnifying glass would have to be before it could see that… So if a cell is like that and a nanobot is like this…

Probably going to be a fun little technological period… that’s only CG btw, don’t go getting too excited… anyway I haven’t finished yet, I think we’ll go for that magic number ten, go through time as well. Hmm.

Nanofactory

This animation displays in vivid detail the future of manufacturing on the molecular level.

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