Nanobot Music

Nano-copters work together to make music in this amazing video from TED

Professor Vijay Kumar from GRASP, the robotics laboratory at the University of Pennsylvania, just wrapped up a fantastic TED Talk on his robotics work. Using custom-built quad rotor nano-copters, Kumar’s team demonstrated the agility, versatility and programmable awareness of these small drone-like devices. Kumar’s work is focused on creating robots that can work together to achieve a common goal or complete a task. Kumar closed …

Thom Browne Women’s Fall 2012

Glowing snowboarders, TED Quotes, DIY Airsoft machine guns and more in our look at the web this week

Staging his Fall/Winter 2012 presentation in characteristic zany fashion—a candlelit room filled with coffins housing girls who’d “died for fashion”—Thom Browne revealed a less-expected line of toned-down womenswear. Still pushing his apparel to extremes with exaggerated bustles and seemingly non-sequitr joints and angles, Browne incorporated classically tailored elements for a wearable, but still wantonly indulgent approach to the season.

DIY Airsoft Machine Gun

Glowing snowboarders, TED Quotes, DIY Airsoft machine guns and more in our look at the web this week

The deceptively simple construction of this homemade airsoft gun produces an intimidating fire rate from the plastic soda bottle compartment. Certain to create headaches for parents and educators across the country, the design can be realized with $15 and a basic tool kit.