Ian Fieggen maintains a compendium of technical knowledge about shoelaces. (Thanks to Mark Dionne for bringing this to our attention.)
Month: September 2005
Eva the head
A brief video about a bodyless robotic head named Eva is available from NASA.
The brush-off brush-on
Kimiko Ryokai has produced a short video demonstrating a splashy — well, spraybrush-y — way to take colors and patterns from almost anything and reproduce them somewhere (if not quite anywhere) else. (Thanks to Ginnie Grallia for bringing this to our attention.)
Leaves of grass — a publishing tale
An obsessive pensioner was surprised to learn he had been published in a leading scientific journal after keeping a diary for the past 20 years of how many times he mows his lawn…. So begins a report in the September 3, 2005 issue of The Daily Telegraph. (Thanks to investigator Kristine Danowski for bringing this […]