Everything in this guy’s house in made of wood. He’s Livio De Marchi. He lives in Venice and rides around in a wooden car/boat. There’s more. It would be worth repeating it all from Book of Joe, but that would be copying: you really should go see it there — amazing stuff!
Update: This was also posted at BoingBoing.
And here’s De Marchi’s own site.
Finally, a video of the wooden Ferrari boat in action:
DARPA — the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency — is engaged in some , er, creative work. Specifically, they’re working on developing “brain-chipped cyborg moths.” No really. I think. It’s called the Hybrid Insect Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems project.
The chips are implanted in the moths in the pupa stage and are used for … something. Rod Brooks of MIT’s computer science and artifical intelligence lab explains that,”A bunch of experiments have been done over the past couple of years where simple animals, such as rats and cockroaches, have been operated on and driven by joysticks, but this is the first time where the chip has been injected in the pupa stage and ‘grown’ inside it. “Once the moth hatches, machine learning is used to control it.”
The story is here.
It’s not April Fools in June Day is it?
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The author at Copan, Honduras. Photo by Ellen Christensen.
Asian Art Museum curators Michael Knight and Pauline Yao with the author, celebrating a book being delivered in the nick of time for an event.
