I’d forgotten just how interesting Cryptome can be sometimes (“Cryptome welcomes documents for publication that are prohibited by governments worldwide, in particular material on freedom of expression, privacy, cryptology, dual-use technologies, national security, intelligence, and secret governance — open, secret and classified documents — but not limited to those. Documents are removed from this site only by order served directly by a US court having jurisdiction. No court order has ever been served; any order served will be published here — or elsewhere if gagged by order. Bluffs will be published if comical but otherwise ignored.”)
“This real-size robotic hand can detect and catch objects. It is made of LEGO bricks. I’ ve worked one month on this project, I wanted to build a LEGO hand that looks real and works fine.” – Lego prosthetics, its only a matter of time.
Celebrating 60 years of Anthrax research … seems I was a bit of a latecomer only getting into them in the 80s. Lots of other interesing maps elsewhere on that site. Maps of all kinds of things.
“As if making space-noodles in standard ramen flavor wasn’t cool enough, Nissen is offering SpaceRam in four different flavors: soy sauce, miso, curry and pork broth.”