Space engineering, at its peak during the space race, did not focus solely on the design of rockets and spaceships. Many of the actual marvels, meant … [Read more...]
Archives for December 2010
The fine art of goofing off by Henry Jacobs
In 1972 television and audio pioneer Henry Jacobs, among whose works you can file the invention of surround sound (Vortex: Experiments in Sound and … [Read more...]
Funny quadrocopter experiments at the Swiss Institute for Dynamic Systems and Control
"Echo" is one of the quadrocopters at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology’s Institute for Dynamic Systems and Control. Researchers put a piano in … [Read more...]
Cause it’s better than monopoly
Ask a ridiculous question - you get a ridiculous answer. Lou -blond, in a possibly endless 1974 interview. … [Read more...]
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