Showing posts with label technology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label technology. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 7, 2009

History hackers


Meet Nikola Tesla, the unsung genius behind the most miraculous advances of the Age of Electricity, and Hacker-extraordinaire Bre Pettis who will break the history of electricity down to its nuts and bolts. Bre will show you how to build your own versions of Tesla's greatest inventions and takes you on a journey from New York City's ultra modern power plants, to one of the world's most advanced satellite research labs, and then onward into the future of energy...unlimited wireless power

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Where's My Robot?


Danny Wallace really wants a robot. He wants it to walk like him and talk like him. It's what scientists have been promising us for generations but it's a promise so far unfulfilled. Danny circumnavigates the globe searching for robot nirvana, trying to uncover how far away his dream is.

He discovers that the robotics world is as weird as it is insanely complicated. During his quest he meets a Japanese man who makes copies of himself and his daughter, an Italian who claims he's found the key to human intelligence in a video game and a Singaporean whose unpromising-looking homage to Dusty Bin might just turn out to be the robot of Danny's dreams

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National Geographic Ultimate Factories - Ferrari

Enjoy a look inside Ferrari factory, where new models of sports cars are being built and tested on Ferrari's private race track...

Inside Ferrari's closely-guarded factory in Maranello, Italy, you'll see how the newest, most powerful model is created from start to finish, learn its design secrets -- and take a test drive at 200 mph

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