Thursday, September 23, 2010

Maslowbots

(Link to Geekologie)

The great Abraham Maslow created the highly influential concept of the hierarchy of needs. While Maslow may have been referring to human needs, theoretically, the hierarchy could be similar for any living being. Here we have an adaptation of Maslow's hierarchy of needs for robot needs, or percieved 'needs'. According to this pyramid, the robot must journey towards the goal of destroying all humans! A lofty goal of course, but every robots needs to strive towards something.

Make food to eat

(link to Walyou)

Experience a cornucopia of convenient food with the new Cornucopia food printer! Developed by the eggheads at MIT, the Cornucopia is an instant food production device that can deliver healthy, nutritious meals in seconds! NO PREPARATION REQUIRED!!! You can make a pie easy as pie, and a piece of cake is a piece of cake. Perfect for Starcraft 2 players. Get yours today!

Fractal architecture: the mandelbox

(link to Vimeo)

Imagine living inside one of these. Meet the mandelbox; the new concept in architecture and the cutting-edge of lifestyle! Lose yourself inside the miracle of multiple iterations and geometric patterns that will blow your mind. As one satisfied customer explained, it's like a dimethyltryptamine cathedral!