You pop on a goopy strip, and a short while later you’ve got teeth as white and gleaming as polished tile. But how do those strips work? Wired explains, and when you zoom in to the individual ions flying around, it looks a lot like a sci-fi space attack.
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In North America and Europe, we don’t worry much about polio. Vaccination has eradicated this terrible, paralyzing disease in the first world. But far away, the poliomyelitis virus still thrives. Wired accompanied the teams that hope to wipe out polio in Afghanistan and Pakistan. The story is compelling.
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The best music and art festival of 2013 isn’t happening in a park or on a boat. It’s taking place on a moving train. Profiled in Wired’s forthcoming Design Issue, artist Doug Aitken is packing a slew of artists and bands onto a train, crossing from New York to San Francisco over the course of ten days in September. “For a short time,” Aitken writes in a statement, “the most interesting place in the country will be a moving target.”
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WIRED, Stan Winston Studios, Legacy Effects, YouTube, and Conde Nast Entertainment all decided to get together and build something truly epic – a 9-foot, 9-inch-tall robot. Yeah, not my idea of a great idea that will benefit mankind, but it’s not like they asked me. Still, this thing is pretty awesome. Even if it could rip humans limb from limb.
And it has four arms to do the ripping. This was all for the opening day of the 2013 San Diego Comic-Con. They got Adam Savage to help unveil it. It’s pretty freakin’ epic, awesome, amazing, fantastic and scary. Check it out below…
Yeah, it’s actually a dude in a robot suit, but that doesn’t make it any less impressive. You try building a costume that looks this good.
I can easily believe that there were many casualties in the building process, just like the robot says.
[via YouTube]
Remember 1995? Yeah, me neither. But to refresh our memories, we’ve got an "In and Out" list from the December 20, 1995 edition of USA Today. This strange artifact (found in the University of California-San Francisco tobacco document archives) gives a peek at how mainstream America was thinking about shifting trends in media, technology and, I guess, Mexican food in the mid-1990s.
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With Google Reader about to meet its maker
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Bluetooth keyboards for the iPad are nice and all, but aren’t you going to need to be within a wire’s-length to see the thing anyway? To that end, Logitech has announced a full-sized wired iPad keyboard targeted to classrooms with an emphasis on durability and maintenance. It has a spill-resistant design, three-year warranty and key life of over 5 million strokes, according to the company, and comes in either lightning or 30-pin versions. If you don’t mind being tethered, the Lightning model will ship in August and the last-gen iPad model in November for $60 each — but you can pre-order now at the source.
Filed under: Peripherals
Via: ZDNet
Source: Logitech
Ever since this $599 rope grenade, er, maritime rescue device came in, we’ve been dreaming about zip-lining out the window to escape boring meetings.
Ten percent better doesn’t cut it for Larry Page. Neither does 50, 100, or 500. In an era of modest revision, the Google co-founder expects his company’s products to outperform the status quo by no less than 10x. Because how else are you going to change the world? More »
After Chris Anderson’s departure as Editor-in-Chief of WIRED after a 10 year run, rumors were swirling about who might be next to take the helm. Now, it’s been announced that the next man for the job is former WIRED creative director Scott Dadich. More »
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