Mike Matas walks us through the new book from Push Pop Press, Al Gore’s ‘Our Choice’. The book is helping shape the paradigm of digital reading and interaction. This detailed book design comes as ebooks are becoming utelised in education aswell as everyday life.

Derek Sivers warns us of the perils of sharing your goals with peers. He warns us to dealy gratification and to avodi satisfaction. An intresting concept that may help all of us get closer to our personal goals.

This series hopes to lighten your heart with some lovable robots. These anthropomophized bits and pieces manage to pull on the heart strings with thier cute faces abd gestures. While they may not be functioning robots, these detailed designs are wonderful works of art.

Matt Cutts trys the ‘next 30 days’ philosophy and finds his life quality improves along with his sense of self. This concept for a dynamic life is inspiring.

As we reflect on our marvelous technology of the present, it is easy to forget that humans have been making amazing computers and machines for centuries. Automatons a marvelously detailed designs predominantly from the  18th and 19th centuries. These Clockwork marvels go past concept design and do what seems imposible. In the word’s of the latest blockbuster, ‘HUGO’, They are the things dreams are made of”.

This week we exhibit, Joueuse de Tympanon, the scandolous Turk, A german drinking game involving a stag, The Marveklous Talking Machine and the Canadian walking soldier.

Ian Ritchie shares a cautionary tale that demonstartes the power of giving new ideas and concepts a chance. After declining to help prototype the world wide web in the late 80′s Ian tells how he saw it grow through the early 90′s.

This series checks out the detailed designs of ship sterns of years gone by. Reflecting on the craftsmanship invested into these symbols of power and empire.

Now this is just awesome. Taking a cue from how maple leaves manage to drift for long distances using an unusual shape to spiral themselves through the air, DARPA is designing a drone that uses that same spinning motion to fly, including an ability to do vertical take-offs. The trick to the maple seed is that it’s one (or two) “wings” help it to whirl in the air as it falls, giving the breeze a chance to pick it up and carry it away from the tree. That kind of whirling action is what DARPA was after for a new drone concept that could be used for collecting military intelligence.

Jack Horner asks, ‘where are the little dinosaurs?’. This concept turned hypothesis will turn your understanding of dinosaurs on its head.

This series hopes to lighten your heart with some lovable robots. These anthropomophized bits and pieces manage to pull on the heart strings with thier cute faces abd gestures. While they may not be functioning robots, these detailed designs are wonderful works of art.

Scott Rickard explains the development of the US Navy’s SONAR ‘ping’. Scott sheds light on the reserach and develeopment of the ‘ping’ and closes with a piano recital.

As we reflect on our marvelous technology of the present, it is easy to forget that humans have been making amazing computers and machines for centuries. Automatons a marvelously detailed designs predominantly from the  18th and 19th centuries. These Clockwork marvels go past concept design and do what seems imposible. In the word’s of the latest blockbuster, ‘HUGO’, They are the things dreams are made of”.

This week we display a duck Automaton that could mimick sevral duck characteristics including faux digestion. We also Show the marvelous Pierre Jaquet-Doz’s three automata, The Writer, The Draughtsman and The Musician, which are still considered scientific marvels today, and we finish with Henri Maillardet’s automaton that could write in english and french as well as draw a select few pictures.

This video shows musician Bobby McFerrin displaying a group dynamic of expectations. This feel good experiment shows some intresting research results, including a universal tendancy towards the pentatonic scale.

This series is looking at the detailed designs of ship sterns of years gone by.

Some robotics research seeks to mimic a certain trait from a plant or animal while others mimic the entire thing. This seagull robot did just that and with some alarmingly realistic results. The robot is so realistic, it even attracted other seagulls. The robot’s design uses similar flapping wings on a light-weight body. Flitting over the crowd, it’s not hard to imagine how other seagulls might think there’s something worth inspecting.

These videos from TED display and disscuss some promising future concepts for 3D printing technology and processess. Lisa Harouni Hopes to see 3D Printing come outside of the world of prototyping. Then Klaus demonstartes his working prototype of his detailed design, a micro printer.

This series hopes to lighten your heart with some lovable robots. These anthropomophized bits and pieces manage to pull on the heart strings with thier cute faces abd gestures. While they may not be functioning robots, these detailed designs are wonderful works of art.

“Reports of a two-metre crocodile menacing a duck pond at Mt Coot-tha Botanical Gardens this week prompted a swift response from authorities.

But in the end, it was a case of life imitating art.”

The detailed design of the artists crocodile even fooled crocodile experts.

As we reflect on how marvelous todays technology is, it is easy to forget that humans have been making amazing computers and machines for centuries. Automatons a marvelously detailed designs predominantly from the  18th and 19th centuries. These Clockwork marvels go past concept design and do what seems imposible. In the word’s of the latest blockbuster, ‘HUGO’, They are the things dreams are made of”.

This Weeks Selections include, The Bird Trainer, some musical automatons, John Dee’s 1543 Flying wooden beetle aswell as one of Leo Davinci’s Designs.

This is one memory stick you wont want to lose. The detailed design folds from decepticon Ravage into your Flash memory in a few easy steps.