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The French performance art group La Machine built a pair of gigantic robot spiders which performed in Yokohama Japan last month.

They took part in Expo Y150, a festival which commemorated the 150th anniversary of the opening of the city’s port. …Continue reading … »

This is the second trailer for the movie District 9. The movie seems to be about what happens somewhere in South Africa when a group of extraterrestrial beings land there and then live amongst the humans. …Continue reading … »

While there is the possibility that this video is a few decades old, this slow motion clip showing the grenade altering its shape from rectangular to spherical as it prepares to explode is pretty cool. …Continue reading … »

Kim Graham has developed artificial digigrade leg attachments. These attachments allow an individual to walk in a digitigrade fashion, meaning to walk while placing all of the body’s weight on the digits or toes like a horse or a dog. …Continue reading … »

Cat + printer = hilarious.

I’ve heard of pets behaving strangely around household items and appliances, but I’ve never seen anything like this. …Continue reading … »

I haven’t seen the first transformers film but from what I’ve read and and been told by others it isn’t great. And there is the possibility that this will be of the same quality. Too bad. The special effects in this second Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen look absolutely amazing. These robots are photo-realistic and their designs have complex moving parts. Just look at Bumblebee, there is a multitude of parts on him that all move independently. Very nice. Hats off to ILM. …Continue reading … »

Earlier this week OCZ released information on its upcoming PCI-Express based SSD, the Z-Drive.

“It is our goal to deliver tailored SSD solutions for the complete spectrum of high performance applications,” said Eugene Chang, Vice President of Product Management at the OCZ Technology Group. “Designed for ultra high performance consumers, the Z-Drive takes the SATA bottleneck out of the equation by employing the ultra fast PCI-Express architecture with a RAID controller and four Vertex controllers configured in four-way RAID 0 within an all-in-one product, making this solution ideal for applications that put a premium on both storage performance and maximum capacity.”

Utilizing a combined 256MB of local cache and an onboard RAID controller the Z-Drive is capable of speeds up to 510MB/s read and 480MB/s write. The drive also features ultra-fast data access, lower power consumption,  and superior durability in comparison to traditional disk-based hard drives.

The Z-Drives will come in  of 250GB, 500GB and 1 TB sizes. No prices were announced, but looking at the performance specs alone these appear to be the Lamborghini of hard drives so expect them to be priced accordingly.

source: Hothardware

Create a caption. I’ll start. …Continue reading … »

This hexapod robot - a robot with six legs - is one of the best I’ve seen so far.

It was built by an individual who goes by the name of Zenta. …Continue reading … »