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Podcast: Machina At Last
Researcher Wires Four Rats’ Brains Together – Creates Bizarre Organic “Brainet”
At Duke University a researcher who’s pioneering brain-computer interfaces has circuited four rats’ together via their brains and created a gooey and organic “Brainet”. Miguel Nicolelis, the neurobiologist pioneering this neuroengineering...
Record Made with Conductive Paint to Create “Music” – Sounds More Like Angry, Drunk R2D2
Two researchers at the Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design recently decided to make a record utilizing conductive paint. Conductive paint is awesome…just think of it as paintable wiring. Sounds great, right? It is…unless you decided...
Someone Stitched Together 400,000 Space Photos – You’ll Be Glad People Have This Kind of Time
YouTube user Daveachuk has created a late-night, where-do-I-fit-in-the-universe, pondering-life-late-at-night video from over 400,000 photos as well as data taken by the Spitzer Space Telescope. The resulting video is almost mesmerizing...
Charon Photobombs New Horizon Photo of Pluto
Back in 2006 the New Horizon space probe left Earth on mission to visit Pluto. On July 14th of this year, New Horizon will finally reach its destination and give us a closer look at the piece of rock that was once on the a-list of planets...
Man’s Wife Gets Beaten by Evil Demon Poltergeist – Hires Pro Demon Slayer to do Battle
Tracey and Kerion Fry have marriage problems. And not in the normal domestic disturbance kind of way, either. According to the Frys, an evil, seriously pissed-off poltergeist is plaguing their marriage and their home. Before calling upon...
Ancient Lodging Discovery Rewrites Icelandic Local Settlement History
Archaeologists have discovered the remains of what appears to be an ancient lodging almost 20 feet wide and 65 feet long in central Reykjavík. A government-sponsored team stumbled across the remains of the building and believes it predates...
After Things: Pale Blue Dot
Jaguar Shows Off New Experimental Auto Tech – Turns Range Rover into Smartphone-Driven RC Car
A long time ago on the WeirdThings podcast, because we’re always ahead of the curve when it comes to hypotheticals about how new tech might be used in ridiculous scenarios, we pondered how someone might use smart-car tech to commit...
Our Childhood Dreams Are About to Come True: Two Huge Robots About to Throw Down!
Since the very idea of giant robots the thought of giant robots beating the paneling off of one another has also existed. Japanese movies, Rock’em Sock’em Robots, Voltron, Robot Jox, Shogun Warriors, Pacific Rim, Real Steel and a massive...