Category Archives: Video

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MIT engineers John Romanishin and Kyle Gilpin have invented a new type of modular cube robot – the M-block – that can propel itself forward with the aid of a spinning internal 20,000rpm flywheel, leap, climb and snap using magnets onto other similar bots to form larger arrays.  MIT News sez:

Inside each M-Block is a flywheel that can reach speeds of 20,000 revolutions per minute; when the flywheel is braked, it imparts its angular momentum to the cube. On each edge of an M-Block, and on every face, are cleverly arranged permanent magnets that allow any two cubes to attach to each other.

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Chromatic – a super slow-motion short filmed last year in LA featuring pro/am skateboarders Jordan Hoffart, Aldrin Garcia, and Josh Hawkins on the streets with decks covered in coloured chalk.

Slip hazards galore.

Music: Once Before by J.D. Beatz

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Animator Markus‘ contribution to the Animation Sequence Project, in which you have to begin and end with a 250 pixel square in the middle of the screen and the movie can’t exceed 10 seconds.

Short. Cute. Briefly chaotic.

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Chinese musician Michelle Kwan plays a rather excellent cover of Guns ‘N’ Roses Sweet Child O’ Mine on a Guzheng – a traditional 18-stringed zither which originated in the 5th century BC.

Around the same time anyone last gave a monkey’s about what Axl was up to.

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