Saturday, 20 July 2013

Google Ngram Viewer

The Google Ngram Viewer is a cool tool that allows the comparison of a list of words with a graph of their % use in literature over time. Pictured is a comparison of "guerre et amour" from the french corpus. Notice the spike in the 1910s during world war 1 likely because of the Schlieffen Plan.

Friday, 5 July 2013

T8 the Bio Inspired 3D Printed Spider Octopod Robot



I love this spider robot, with 26 servos (via: Gizmodo )