Year: 2011

  • Bonobo Chimp Lights Fire and Cooks On It

    Bonobo Chimp Lights Fire and Cooks On It

    Bonobo Chimp Lights Fire! Kanzi a Bonobo chimp lights fire AND cooks on it! Isn’t it amazing what apes can do these days. I’d like to see a video. Click here to see still photos of Kanzi, the Bonobo chimp, on the Telegraph website. I particularly liked this comment on photo 10 “An old Congolese tribal legend…

  • My Office Pro 2010 DVD’s Counterfeit

    My Office Pro 2010 DVD’s Counterfeit

    Introduction Well, after 13 years on the Internet it looks like I have eventually been stung. I just found my Office Pro 2010 DVD’s counterfeit after two years. It looked fine and installed well on two PC’s (the package declares it is suitable for three PC’s) and it was activated on those two PC’s in August 2010. It was purchased from…

  • Stig of Bus Drivers In Saltburn-By-The-Sea

    Stig of Bus Drivers In Saltburn-By-The-Sea

    Stig of Bus Drivers Controls The X4 This must be the Stig of bus drivers getting his bus up this steep hill in one go without sliding all over the place. He did it in these snowy winter conditions on 9th November 2010. This is miraculous driving of the X4 service single deck bus shown here going up…

  • iPods Magically Used In A TED Lecture

    iPods Magically Used In A TED Lecture

    The Magic of Truth & Lies on iPods From Marco Tempest This video shows Marco Tempest conjuring with three iPods. He does it synchronised with the images on their screens to make it look as if those images move from one phone’s screen to another. Occasionally he introduces some real artefacts into the process so it…

  • Bike Riding Robots Are Helped By Gyroscopes & Cameras

    Bike Riding Robots Are Helped By Gyroscopes & Cameras

    Watch This Video of Bike Riding Robots Watch Murata Girl and Murata Boy. They use stabilizing gyroscopes and camera technology developed by Murata Manufacturing, a Japanese electronic components company. These are bike riding robots which perform some amazing riding skills without falling off their bikes. Murata Girl is the one on the monocycle. Near the end of the video Murata…