Month: April 2006

Tiny flyer navigates like fly

Tiny flyer navigates like fly

Our pals over on Discovery have a write up about a little fly-inspired plane – “An ultralight autonomous aircraft that mimics the navigational abilities of a fly could one day become a real fly on the wall. The 10-gram microflyer, being developed by a team of researchers lead by Dario Floreano at the Swiss Federal […]

RFID Robot

RFID Robot

Clever idea, I think you could make your our RFID reminder bot with RFID Toys too – “DNP and NICT developed a RFID-based memory assistant that alerts a person if she is leaving her house without carrying the things she will need.” – [via / via] Link (Japanese).

How bricks are made

How bricks are made

Pat writes – “This week’s video comes to us courtesy of the South Carolina Educational TV Network. We found them because they produced a video for one of our member companies. We got a bunch of videos from them this week which we’ll parse out over the coming weeks and months. This one takes place […]