Airborne Jellyfish

Air jelly!

check out this video:
http://www.festo.com/cms/de_de/5890_6299.htm

CrAzY optical illusion...

A Personal Helicopter That Can Lift You Up

Finally, a better way to commute.

Check out this video:

helicoptere personnel
by OXY67

thanks erok for the link! Found on pistolwimp...

3D Printer Prints stuff out of SUGAR!!!

CandyFab (sounds fab to me!)is made by Evil Mad Scientist Labs. Read more >

I saw them at Maker Faire last year -- of course I asked the question, and "No, you can't eat it" was the answer, unfortunately.

more photos:

Weird Giant Microbe Toys

Cute and cuddly stuffed animals that look like tiny microbes—only a million times actual size!

Including: The Common Cold, The Flu, Sore Throat, Stomach Ache, Cough, Ear Ache, Bad Breath, Kissing Disease, Athlete's Foot, Ulcer, Martian Life, Beer & Bread, Black Death, Ebola, Flesh Eating, Sleeping Sickness, Dust Mite, Bed Bug, and Bookworm

check them out at http://www.giantmicrobes.com/

Strange Trend: sites that aggregate sites from sites that aggregate sites?

...and for no apparent reason except to create content to slap google ads on? Not that i'm not flattered that my site was featured on a site called "Most Inspired" but I sort of have to wonder how they came to that conclusion since my site is not very inspired at all (in all modesty, it isn't!)

check it out anyway >

I also rather enjoyed the google ads that showed up on this page with my site. hee hee.

Another Big Budget Web Ad: Got Milk?

Very bizarre campaign-- Brittleactica: A Planet in Need-- a miracle white elixir saves all....beautiful Matthew Barney-esque graphics(or is it Star Wars? sometimes my cultural references blend together)

check it out >

thanks to Joo Yeon Yoo from Ruder Finn for all the cool links today!

Nucleus Online Art Gallery and Store

Really great stuff here! I've rarely seen a gallery where I like almost all the artwork.

Lots of cute, weird, cool paintings and drawings and sculpture, and some stuff for sale...enjoy!

check out the nucleus website >

Cyborg Flying Rats Invade China

from Wired magazine's Danger Room: (read it there)
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The People's Daily Online reports that scientists in China have successfully used brain implants in pigeons to control the birds' movement:

Pigeon_spy

Scientists with the Robot Engineering Technology Research Center of east China's Shandong University of Science and Technology say they implanted micro electrodes in the brain of a pigeon so they can command it to fly right or left or up or down.

The implants stimulated different areas of the pigeon's brain according to signals sent by the scientists via computer, and forced the bird to comply with their commands.

"It's the first such successful experiment on a pigeon in the world," said the lead researcher, who hopes the work will have "practical use" in the future.

In the United States, similar work on animals has been of interest to the military. For example, the pigeon news follows the equally amusing animal tale about the Pentagon's attempts at creating remote controlled shark spies. Like the Chinese pigeon experiment, the sharks had brain implants used to control their movements.

But don't hold your breath waiting for animal spies to roam the world anytime soon. One of the most infamous would-be animal espionage projects, dubbed Acoustic Kitty, dates back to the 1960s, when the CIA wired a furry feline to eavesdrop. On its trial run, the cat was run over by a car.

-- Sharon Weinberger
"

thanks to lia for the informative link.