Monthly Archives: February, 2013

Robot blackjack at automate 2013 [Video]

Miguel Nicolelis: A monkey that controls a robot with its thoughts [Video]

Can we use our brains to directly control machines — without requiring a body as the middleman? Miguel Nicolelis talks through an astonishing experiment, in which a clever monkey in the US learns to control a monkey avatar, and then a robot arm in Japan, purely with its thoughts. The research has big implications for quadraplegic people — and maybe for all of us.

Meteor Shockwave [Video]

Chelyabinsk Meteor Shockwave

This footage from multiple locations thru the Chelyabinsk city suddenly hit by the shockwave of the last Friday meteorite can illustrate how really it would be to witness some apocalyptic event of either man made or other mass destruction and panic. People caught in their offices, schools, workshops all in one moment break their daily routines and get a panic shock of different degree.

Wild tiger cub for the first time on film [Video]

Wild tiger cub for the first time on film

Al-Qaeda’s 22 tips for dodging drone attacks

Original document in Arabic with English translation as provided by AP

1 – It is possible to know the intention and the mission of the drone by using the Russianmade
“sky grabber” device to infiltrate the drone’s waves and the frequencies. The device
is available in the market for $2,595 and the one who operates it should be a computerknow-
how.
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