Tag: Animals
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Video Friday: Fly Powered Airplanes
By Evan Ackerman No flies were harmed in the making of these airplanes. [ AirSpace ] VIA [ Neatorama ]
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Maker Faire 2009: USB DataSquid
By Evan Ackerman Unlike the ambiguously betentacled USB sea creatures we’ve seen before, this is most definitely a USB squid, and not a cuttlefish. Nifer Fahrion makes each DataSquid by hand out of wool, and endows them with USB data storage which is accessible by removing the two long tentacles. 8 gigs worth of squid…
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USB Kitteh Earz
By Evan Ackerman Psst, let me let you in on a little secret… Your cat’s ears? They’re actually USB drives. Go on, pull them off and see. If you’ve never used them before, you might have to tug pretty hard, but trust me, they’re in there. It’s one of the many perks of cat ownership.…
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Experiment Reveals Which Puppy Will Please The Most Chicks
By Evan Ackerman Everybody knows that girls are attracted to guys with dogs. This is why, if you’re desperate, you can rent dogs by the hour. But what kind of dog is most effective at picking up chicks? This is the burning question that the Puppy Pulling Power experiment was designed to answer. Five different…
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Pixar’s Up: Dug The Talking Dog
By Evan Ackerman We saw a preview of the first 45 minutes of Pixar’s newest animated feature, Up, back in March at WonderCon. Boy, were we ever impressed. One of the most enjoyable characters in the film is Dug, a dog who can talk. Now, I know what you’re thinking: talking dogs, big deal, it’s…
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Mashimaro Weird Rabbit MP3 Player
By Evan Ackerman This is Mashimaro. It’s supposed to be a rabbit, but it’s called Mashimaro because it looks like a marshmallow or something. It is, I guess, Korea’s defense against Hello Kitty, in that it supposedly has some kind of anime series behind it (that “puts a humorous light to toilet habits”) but it’s…
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Video Friday: Festo Bionic Penguins
By Evan Ackerman Cross-posted from BotJunkie.com We’ve admired Festo’s bio-inspired robots in the past, including the AirJelly and the AirRay. They’ve just come out with two new species: aquatic penguins, and flying penguins: Some of the other stuff in that video is pretty cool, too. We posted about the Molecubes earlier this week, but you…
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Solar Powered Squirrel
By Evan Ackerman Those damn squirrels. Every time they eat a nut, they keep a tree from growing, which is pretty much exactly the same as cutting down a tree with a chainsaw, setting fire to it, and then injecting the ashes directly into the ozone layer. So, it’s good to see that the old…
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Video Camera Strapped To An Eagle
By Evan Ackerman Back in April of last year, we posted about a video camera that you could strap to your dog or cat for a pet’s eye view of their wanderings. Jose Luis Ortiz had the same idea, except his pet happens to be what looks like a Golden Eagle: If you thought that…
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Bat-ronaut Rides Into Space On Discovery’s External Tank
By Evan Ackerman When space shuttle Discovery launched on Sunday, it was carrying one surprise passenger: a small, and probably quite confused, Mexican free-tailed bat. An inspection team noticed the bat sleeping about a third of the way up the external fuel tank prior to launch, but everybody assumed that the bat (affectionately named “Interim…