Here's an article about Hatsumi who is the last living master of ninjutsu according to the article. Apparently this master ninja at 76 years old is the only living student of the last "fighting ninja" according to the article. Apparently judo is losing out as a sport to golf and tennis in Japan where Japanese now seem to view it as sweaty and smelly. It's a sad day when golfers and tennis players are more popular than ninjas in Japan. Also according to the article the ninjutsu master guy isn't to fond of the current ninja sterotypes. One other thing the article mentioned was nunchucks being in the guy's training chamber. I thought nunchucks were made up as a weapon for Hollywood movies? Myth or fact?
There isn't really any caption information that explains this video but as far as I can tell these are a couple of vacuum cleaners. There is a music track playing in the background and the vacuum cleaners 'dance' to it. I can't tell if they are automated or someone is controlling them via a remote control. One modification they seem to have is the little multicolored white tube sticking out of the top of each one. On top of the tube seems to be a styrafoam ball which puffs up and down on a cushion of air blown out by the vacuum. These look much bigger than your standard Roomba so maybe they were prototypes or some such?
In this video a bunch of college students are sitting in a lecture hall listening to a lecture. A guy near the front row gets a call on his cell phone and stands up. He throws his cell phone down (it explodes into hundreds of pieces) and rips off his clothes to uncover a superman suit he is wearing underneath. He charges up the eisle, stoping at the top of the stairs to pose like superman, and then charges out of the doors and away. It is obviously pre-planned because there are two different camera angles but it is believable that it happened in a real lecture vs. being complete staged. Most of the college students don't even look around as he runs by.
We're one step closer to a Futurama future! This video has a group of scientists from Hubo Labs working on a robot version of Einstein. I'm not sure what their overall goal with the project is other than maybe creating a robot tour guide or robot grade school history/science lesson. The head of the robot is a human shaped latex head of Einstein while the rest of the robot is your generic Japanese looking robot. The head and face of Einstein has facial expressions and 'talks' (though I assume it is pre-recorded). The head itself looks pretty good but it would have probably looked better had it been on a human sized body and not a three foot tall robot body.
I have no idea if this video is from Russia or not but it sounds good. Anyway this video is pretty slow except for the two or three seconds where the ice sculpture turns into so many ice cubes. A guy with a chain saw walks around cutting the supports out from under the ice sculpture until he cuts the last one and it comes crashing down. Another guy follows him and throws the cut supports out of the way though I am not sure why. It isn't vandalism as there seems to be a crowd (re: camera flashs) watching the guy bring it down. I assume they were either done with the ice sculpture or they wanted to make room for a new one.
Here is a photo of a car accident which happened in the UAE between a Lamborghini and a BMW. As you can see in the photo the Lamborghini took some pretty good body damage to the front and the rear of the car. The passenger compartment of the Lamborghini stayed intact though as far as I can tell and there isn't any information regarding injuries that occured in the accident. It is probably pretty rare that two pretty expensive cars crash into each other. So who wins when a Lamborghini and a BMW have a head on for the win? Apparently no one.
So you may have seen the self replication robot cube video and this video is a somewhat more practical application of a similar idea. In this video it starts out with a chair sitting in the middle and then the chair falls apart onto the floor. Next up the chair starts to re-assemble itself automatically (as in it's a robot chair). The seat of the chair puts out some wheels and then moves around re-attaching the legs and back of the chair to itself. Finally, the chair stands up back into it's regular chair shape all by it's self. I couldn't come up with a real world application where you would need a robot chair to assemble itself because the materials involved are so much greater than say a molder plastic chair. It's rather Jetsonesque though.
In this car accident video they are in the middle of a pickup truck race when one of the outside trucks nudges the middle truck which nudges the inside truck. The inside truck loses it and goes sliding off towards the inside of the track. The wind catchs the truck and it flies up like a giant wing and comes down on the top of the cab. It bounces the top of the cab off the track throwing sparks everywhere before the truck rights itself again and continues skidding along the pavement. It's pretty amazing how that original tap from the middle truck through the inside truck so off that it completely flipped over like that.
Here's an article about Hatsumi who is the last living master of ninjutsu according to the article. Apparently this master ninja at 76 years old is the only living student of the last "fighting ninja" according to the article. Apparently judo is losing out as a sport to golf and tennis in Japan where Japanese now seem to view it as sweaty and smelly. It's a sad day when golfers and tennis players are more popular than ninjas in Japan. Also according to the article the ninjutsu master guy isn't to fond of the current ninja sterotypes. One other thing the article mentioned was nunchucks being in the guy's training chamber. I thought nunchucks were made up as a weapon for Hollywood movies? Myth or fact?
There isn't really any caption information that explains this video but as far as I can tell these are a couple of vacuum cleaners. There is a music track playing in the background and the vacuum cleaners 'dance' to it. I can't tell if they are automated or someone is controlling them via a remote control. One modification they seem to have is the little multicolored white tube sticking out of the top of each one. On top of the tube seems to be a styrafoam ball which puffs up and down on a cushion of air blown out by the vacuum. These look much bigger than your standard Roomba so maybe they were prototypes or some such?
In this video a bunch of college students are sitting in a lecture hall listening to a lecture. A guy near the front row gets a call on his cell phone and stands up. He throws his cell phone down (it explodes into hundreds of pieces) and rips off his clothes to uncover a superman suit he is wearing underneath. He charges up the eisle, stoping at the top of the stairs to pose like superman, and then charges out of the doors and away. It is obviously pre-planned because there are two different camera angles but it is believable that it happened in a real lecture vs. being complete staged. Most of the college students don't even look around as he runs by.
We're one step closer to a Futurama future! This video has a group of scientists from Hubo Labs working on a robot version of Einstein. I'm not sure what their overall goal with the project is other than maybe creating a robot tour guide or robot grade school history/science lesson. The head of the robot is a human shaped latex head of Einstein while the rest of the robot is your generic Japanese looking robot. The head and face of Einstein has facial expressions and 'talks' (though I assume it is pre-recorded). The head itself looks pretty good but it would have probably looked better had it been on a human sized body and not a three foot tall robot body.
I have no idea if this video is from Russia or not but it sounds good. Anyway this video is pretty slow except for the two or three seconds where the ice sculpture turns into so many ice cubes. A guy with a chain saw walks around cutting the supports out from under the ice sculpture until he cuts the last one and it comes crashing down. Another guy follows him and throws the cut supports out of the way though I am not sure why. It isn't vandalism as there seems to be a crowd (re: camera flashs) watching the guy bring it down. I assume they were either done with the ice sculpture or they wanted to make room for a new one.
Here is a photo of a car accident which happened in the UAE between a Lamborghini and a BMW. As you can see in the photo the Lamborghini took some pretty good body damage to the front and the rear of the car. The passenger compartment of the Lamborghini stayed intact though as far as I can tell and there isn't any information regarding injuries that occured in the accident. It is probably pretty rare that two pretty expensive cars crash into each other. So who wins when a Lamborghini and a BMW have a head on for the win? Apparently no one.
So you may have seen the self replication robot cube video and this video is a somewhat more practical application of a similar idea. In this video it starts out with a chair sitting in the middle and then the chair falls apart onto the floor. Next up the chair starts to re-assemble itself automatically (as in it's a robot chair). The seat of the chair puts out some wheels and then moves around re-attaching the legs and back of the chair to itself. Finally, the chair stands up back into it's regular chair shape all by it's self. I couldn't come up with a real world application where you would need a robot chair to assemble itself because the materials involved are so much greater than say a molder plastic chair. It's rather Jetsonesque though.
In this car accident video they are in the middle of a pickup truck race when one of the outside trucks nudges the middle truck which nudges the inside truck. The inside truck loses it and goes sliding off towards the inside of the track. The wind catchs the truck and it flies up like a giant wing and comes down on the top of the cab. It bounces the top of the cab off the track throwing sparks everywhere before the truck rights itself again and continues skidding along the pavement. It's pretty amazing how that original tap from the middle truck through the inside truck so off that it completely flipped over like that.
