Color survey

Awesome and fascinating results of XKCD's color survey.

How nice to be able to spend your time on stuff like that...

I'm gonna print the poster, RGB monitor color spaces be damned!

Amazingly fast and robust cockroach robot

DASH is nearly as indestructible as the real thing.

How many mechanical devices have you seen that still work after falling over 25 metres onto concrete? This one not only walks away from such a drop, it scuttles away.

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Vertical gardens

I hope city wall-gardens like this become more widespread - beats the usual glass and concrete facades.

Update: hmm, maybe they could get this gravity-defier to do the garden maintenance.