Win, Lose or Draw

 

 This is an electronic version of the (now) classic game ‘Win, Lose, or Draw". The question shows up on the little LCD screen located on the pad and then you try to draw it on the graphics tablet. You and your teammates get to see the thing your trying to draw up on the TV. Without the benefit of having played with one of these, but playing the analog game a few times I can see some interactive things are going to be lost when you play the game this way. Like how you can fake out the other team by throwing them off the track with pen motions for starts. Plus, your going to want to have an LCD projector to play this unless your all huddled around the boob tube.

Win, Lose or Draw

Invisible Spy Ink Pens with UV Light

 

The holidays have not been very kind to my blog, too much turkey makes for a lack of web scouring. Sorry about that people, I’ll get back on the job as soon as I can get all the stuffing out of my keyboard.
Anyway , while I do that go take a look at this clever little pen I saw a few days ago. One end is a pen with invisible ink and the other is an ultraviolet LED flashlight. You too can be a junior secret agent now. Just be careful if you take it into any federal buildings, the guards might give you the third degree. 

Invisible Spy Ink Pens with UV Light

WorkPartner Robot From Finland

This is a pretty incredible looking robot. It’s got the ability to roll on wheels or lock their rotation and use them as a kind of big bouncy feet and walk around. It has a front mount for manipulator arms and a mast for sensors that is about the same height as a humans head. This lets the robot get a more human picture of the world, NASA/JPL did this on the current Mars rover mission. To me the whole thing looks like a centaur. Should be useful around a warehouse or a farm if it can pull a trailer.

[via Ohgizmo]

Workpartner Robot 

FSM Immortalized in the Annals of Science

 

Brilliant choice of subject!   

A dense bed of light-sensitive bacteria has been developed as a unique kind of photographic film. Although it takes 4 hours to take a picture and only works in red light, it also delivers extremely high resolution. The "living camera" uses light to switch on genes in a genetically modified bacterium that then cause an image-recording chemical to darken. The bacteria are tiny, allowing the sensor to deliver a resolution of 100 megapixels per square inch.

New Scientist Breaking News – Living camera uses bacteria to capture image

Hayabusa Touch and Go

 

Looks like the problem plagued space probe Hayabusa did make it’s scheduled landing on asteroid Itokawa after all. During a communications glitch, it kind of bumped into the target a few times. Kind of like a drunk saleryman navigating through a crowded train. The probe didn’t fire the pellet that was supposed to kick up dust and secure the one gram to be returned to Earth. If the probe checks out, they might give it another more controlled try in the next few days.

Hayabusa touched asteroid Itokawa after all