Month: March 2011

A Clock That Eats Flies

A Clock That Eats Flies

This prototype clock from UK designers James Auger and Jimmy Loizeau is powered by a microbial fuel cell. It features a conveyor belt of flypaper that attracts flies and drops their bodies into the fuel cell. Depending on the available fly supply, the process can generate enough power to sustain itself and power a digital clock, as well. [via Boing Boing]

Simple Hele-Shaw Flow Demo Produces Beautiful Organic Forms

Simple Hele-Shaw Flow Demo Produces Beautiful Organic Forms

Spotted in the MAKE Flickr pool, this cool vid from Jessica Rosenkrantz featuring a simple Hele-Shaw cell, which, per Wikipedia, demonstrates โ€œStokes Flow between two parallel flat plates separated by an infinitesimally small gap.โ€ Further, โ€œ[v]arious problems in fluid mechanics can be approximated to Hele-Shaw flows and thus the research of these flows is of importance.โ€