Sometimes cats eat so fast they puke bruh. It’s not healthy. There are a ton of people reblogging this actually happy that there’s a solution for this.
my cat does this. and honestly this might solve his problems… i.e. SLOW THE FUCK DOWN, CAT.
I’m not gonna lie, I think I need one of these for me.
No batteries required: The first autonomous, entirely soft robot
The octobot is powered by a chemical reaction and controlled with a soft logic board. A reaction inside the bot transforms a small amount of liquid fuel (hydrogen peroxide) into a large amount of gas, which flows into the octobot’s arms and inflates them like a balloon. A microfluidic logic circuit, a soft analog of a simple electronic oscillator, controls when hydrogen peroxide decomposes to gas in the octobot. Credit: Lori Sanders
I want every fucking part of me engraved with this shit, I wanna get them touched up as casually as a fill in every two weeks. I wanna glow and open doors and shit, seriously this is sick as fuck and this stuff exists right now, not in some fucking Gibson-wet-dream future.
So there’s a car coming out in the US in…. 2017, I think? I’ve been
poking through their website for a while, and that seems to be what’s
happening.
It’s called the Elio, it runs on regular unleaded gas, costs $7, 300 as a base price, and gets 84 mpg
(highway). Most cars, even small cars with good gas mileage, top out
around 40. The best I’ve seen before the Elio was my Geo Metro with 51
mpg.
The Elio is kind of like a crossbreed between a motorcycle
and a car – it has three wheels, and there are two seats, one behind the
other (a driver’s seat and a back seat, in effect). Not something for a
family outing, but it looks like an awesome little single- or
two-person vehicle.
Something to keep in mind if you’re planning on buying a car next year.
You’re pulling data from my cardiac device that I paid for, implanted inside my body, the most intimate piece of technology anyone can have, and yet I’m devoid of access to the device?
And the best part about this technology is that it’s open source, meaning you can build one yourself from the blueprints that are available for anyone to download.
A vertical forest is expected to be completed this year in Milan. There are two tower apartment complexes which contain a total of 400 residential units. The facade of the buildings will be covered with 730 trees, 5,000 shrubs, and 11,000 perennial plants. It is expected to have the same ecological impact as 10,000 square meters of forest.
Aside from fighting smog and producing oxygen, the foliage is expected to provide insulation to the residential units.
It’ll be really cool to see how these trees grow in order to maximize access to sun, water, and nutrients. Also, a step towards a sci-fi solar punk future – I’m in.
I sure hope the structural engineers planned for the buildings to increase in mass as the trees grow.
Well, or else for maintenance labor to keep the trees rigorously trimmed to prevent too much increase in mass. Or both? (The wikipedia article says the engineering team consulted botanists and horticulturists in planning how much weight the buildings could bear, so it seems likely that the fact that trees grow would have come up.)
This is a pretty cool idea regardless and I hope they get it right. I wonder if anyone will do anything like this in New York.
This falls in the “I really hope they do it but I’ll believe it when I see it” category for me.
It’s been up for 2 years, inaugurated in October 2014, and still going strong. It’s won multiple awards.
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