SKIRMISHER

Made by University of Tokyo professor Yasuo Kuniyoshi and his engineer friends, the 61-inch tall robot publicly demonstrated that it can lift a weight of as heavy as 66 kilograms (145 pounds) in an uncannily human-like fashion. As if it really cares.
A recent software upgrade allows the robot to move more like a human by [...]

Information technology’s explosion must have sent us a curse instead of a blessing: one’s voice, if not consigned as “just another one of those daily petty squeaks”, is already drowned in an ocean of gazillion voices. Whichever medium you choose, your opinion doesn’t make any difference anymore, if at all, especially if the media is lorded over by crazy celebs and pricky politicians hungry for attention.
In short, a [...]

Bad GPS, bad.

Presumably recorded somewhere in Miles Cove, Newfoundland, Canada, this video shows ice or snow creeping inland from the frozen ocean. Technically, what unexciting people say is that it’s just an ice shove, a surge of ice from the ocean onto the shore that can sometimes pile up as high as 40 feet. We’ve seen some [...]

Nope, we completely have no data about the breeding of loonies, but we’re joining the “Saturn hexagon dance party” by citing the potentially hype-deflating Earth-bound possibilities of squarish, pentagonal, and hexagonal spinning things, as found out last year by researcher Tomas Bohr and colleagues:
Tomas Bohr and colleagues made plexiglass buckets, 13 and 20 centimetres across, [...]

On March 17, 2007, local activists gathered on a site somewhere in the University of California Berkeley campus. Their mission: save a bunch of oak trees from the university’s evil athletic gym-driven machinations.
And what can be a more opportune time than when you see art photographer Jack Gescheidt enter the picture. Jack has been doing [...]

Hey girls, if your idea of romantic fun is sharing some Chinese dude’s tomb, we’ve just the right Nanjing guy for you.
A single male in Nanjing recently posted an online message looking for a woman with whom to share his tomb after death.
The 45-year-old businessman, surnamed Li, decided to remain a life-long bachelor after being [...]

This “monster” cane toad as big as a small dog belongs to a toad species called Bufo marinus. It has been captured after “terrorizing” communities of small animals and eating them.
It’s huge, to put it mildly,’ he said. ‘The biggest toads are usually females but this one was a rampant male … I would hate [...]