Robotics pioneer and erstwhile gimmicky car-maker Honda has added a new dimension to its Asimo humanoid robot project: exoskeleton legs for humans. Naturally, there are myriad medical, engineering and military applications.
But it’s not a great look for the able-bodied.
Also, there’s the chafing.
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Nobody photobombs like a little kid photobombs.
Full gallery of little horrors here.
This massive spider web in Madagascar was woven by Darwin’s bark spider, a recently-discovered arachnid that uses its incredibly-strong silk, ten times tougher than Kevlar, to make the world’s largest webs. These spiders are known to make orb webs in Andasibe-Mantadia National Park up to 2.8 meters square anchored by 25-meter threads.
More pics here, including a photo of the Darwin’s bark spider you’ll wish you’d never seen.
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Step off, Keyboard Cat.
Back at 9am.
With the full support of the Party.
Just time for a jumbo helping of WTF as the working day draws to a close.
Check out (i.e. recoil in horror at) Session Magazine’s gallery of celebrities (who looked weird enough to begin with) before and after numerous ill-advised plastic surgeries.
A Caribbean Flamingo Chick born last July at Albuquerque Biological Park, New Mexico.
Surely, other backgrounds were available to the photographer.
