Interesting Links - Science Fun

Peter Ash, of Lawford, Somerset, attached a generator to his hamster's exercise wheel and connected it to his phone charger.

I told this story to my son, John, yesterday and he assured me that using a hamster wheel to generate power was not new and he's right.

Here are few links I found through a quick Google search:

• Hamster-Powered Night Light


• A hamster-powered car that looks like a ladybird.

Simon Greenwald from the MIT Media Lab demonstrates Installation, in which virtual forms are created and placed into real space via a viewing window and a stylus. See the demo and then read more about Installation.

 

 
First it was the radio, then the television, then the computer; next it will be the robot. We are moving closer and closer to household robots, thanks to most of the work being done in Japan.