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Russian Researchers Build Creepy Android to Make Humans “Immortal”
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A Team of Russian researchers are thinking big, as in science fiction premise big, building a conceptual mind-transfer android. The ultimate goal is to help mankind achieve immortality by using humanoid robots and interstellar space travel to get away from this dangerous and overcrowded blue orb we call Earth.… |
May 16th, 2012
SAR-400 Robot is Russia’s Answer to NASA’s Robonaut 2
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NASA and General Motors teamed up a while back to create a humanoid robot called Robonaut 2 or R2. R2 is now on the International Space Station where it will be used to conduct repairs and maintenance outside the space station. Russia has how unveiled a new robot called SAR-400,… |
April 24th, 2012
Batman Stacking Dolls: Batryoshka?
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I’ve seen all sorts of objects done up as those Russian nesting dolls, but these have to be my new favorites. How can you not love these Matryoshka dolls made up to look like Batman?… |
February 23rd, 2012
Do Russian Probe Pics from ’82 Prove Life on Venus?
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This is a very interesting debate going on right now in the scientific community. A Russian scientist named Leonid Ksanfomaliti has checked out some images shot by a Russian probe sent to Venus in 1982 called Venera 13. The 79-year-old Russian scientist from the Space Research Institute in Moscow thinks… |
January 24th, 2012
Car with Dual Power Windows: Now it’s Tinted, Now it’s Not
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I don’t often post about automotive technology, hacks or mods because I don’t know a lot about cars, but this one is too neat to pass up: a car with two sets of front windows, a pair that’s transparent and another pair that’s tinted.… |
January 17th, 2012
Russian Space Official Hints Weapon Might Have Caused Phobos-Grunt Failure
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Russia has had some major failures over the last few months in its space program. So far the country has lost a load of supplies that were to go to the ISS, along with a GPS satellite and more. The most recent failure was the Phobos-Grunt probe which was supposed… |
January 12th, 2012
Twisted iPhone Sculpture: Hope Yours Doesn’t End Up Like This
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While I have trouble imagining what could transform a normal-sized iPhone into this bizarre construct, it’s definitely something that will catch your attention. It’s part of an installation by two Russians artists, Alexei Shulgin and Aristarkh Chernyshev, who are also known as Electroboutique.… |
December 13th, 2011
Robot Matroyshka: Matrobotshka?
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There’s something that’s always fascinated me about matroyshka, those Russian nesting dolls. I think it’s that they sort of remind me of Inception… – in doll form. You know, a doll within a doll within a doll. Now you can get some really special geeky matroyshka, in the form of |
November 27th, 2011
Video Card Museum: This Building Can Run Crysis
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Like many PC gamers, Alexander aka SArd always wanted to have the best graphics cards so he could play the latest games. Back in 1998, SArd got his hands on his uncle’s PC, which had an Intel Celeron 266 CPU – the first ever Celeron processor – an S3 ViRGE… |
August 5th, 2011
iRiver P8 Heads to Russia, Packing Mac-Like UI
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Most of the personal media players on the market are pretty much the same thing. They are generally boxy devices that look like big MP3 players with a color screen. iRiver has a new PMP called the P8 that looks nicer than the typical PMP. The new P8 has big… |
July 5th, 2011
