No comments. It is simply awesome. Perhaps, it is worth just to point you to Stanford University youtube channel, and to the actual scientific article on the paperfuge, as they called it, including its mathematical description.
RSA Animate is a collection of 10 min cartoon-like animations on a whiteboard that partners with a synthesis of a conference given by renown academics in RSA Events . This series is put forward by the Royal Society of Arts (RSA), who aim at a 21st century enlightenment . I first saw some of the short-film series while being in Cuba. I remember I was astonished by the amount of information they could compress in a 10 min talk. Then, I noticed that there was a great deal of post-processing after the 'natural' 30 min or so talk. Nonetheless, it is still amazing how they can manage to do it so smoothly. The animations deserve special attention. They are not only accompanying the talk but they actually supply complementary information, in terms of irony, cultural references, etc., while marking a step-by-step evolution of the speech in a better way than any slide show could do. Here is an RSA Animate example on "Drive: the surprising truth about what motivates us", ...
I used to make this toy with buttons when I was a kid! I perfectly recall the noise it makes when it goes fast enough.
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http://laundry.reviewed.com/features/drumi-tiny-washing-machine-needs-no-electricity
Wow... It is incredible! Anyhow, it is still too expensive. If the price comes down to 50 $, the washing machine companies would surely crash.
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