These days, this would all have been done as CGI.
Category Archives: Video
Training for the Cat Volleyball Team
For the CDO Among You
Most people call it OCD, but not putting it in alphabetical order is pretty sadistic to those who have it.
Skittles sorting machine:
… and That's the Rest of the Story
Over, Under, Sideways, Down
[T]he Pet-Proto, a predecessor to DARPA’s Atlas robot, is confronted with obstacles similar to those robots might face in the DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC). To maneuver over and around the obstacles, the robot exercises capabilities including autonomous decision-making, dismounted mobility and dexterity. The DARPA Robotics Challenge will test these and other capabilities in a series of tasks that will simulate conditions in a dangerous, degraded, human-engineered environment.
Interaction and the Single Photon
A look at the cavity quantum electrodynamics work that Serge Haroche pioneered. Dave Winelend, the other physics Nobel winner, does investigations using ion traps.
There’s a number of short videos with Wineland done by the Institute for Quantum Computing — From Atomic Clocks to Ion Traps: David Wineland at IQC
And Chad has a summary up at Uncertain Principles: What’s So Interesting About Single Quantum Systems? Physics Nobel 2012
More Hexaflexagons!
Rube-y Goldberg Tuesday, Human Powered Edition
Harvesting an Ant Farm
Have you ever dreamed of shrinking yourself so you could go inside an ant colony and see exactly what they do in there? You may have owned an ant farm when you were a kid, but do ants really behave how they would normally within a clear plastic sheath only about 1 inch by 1 inch? Doubtfully. Playing with ants isn’t just for kids as Florida State University professor Walter Tschinkel shows us in just a moment. Tschinkel replicates the form of ant colonies by pouring molten aluminum into the tunnels, letting the metal harden, and then meticulously excavating the result.
Water Rocket on Steroids
New Extreme Sport Combines a Jet Pack with a Jet Ski
No, I didn’t lose balance. I was diving.