mesmerising footage of a drone flying through the Crossrail tunnels under London.

stop frame karate

Two dudes with clearly too much time on their hands take karate to the next level by delivering a flurry of 2D punches, kicks and flips. For a couple of yellow and white belts, they could give Jet Li a run for his money.

Stop cyberbullying Day

Mechanical penguins reflect your image (BBC News)

An exhibition based around 450 mechanical penguins has gone on display at the bitforms gallery in New York.

The penguins mirror your movement as they reflect your image.

Entitled Descent With Modification, it is partly based on Charles Darwin's book Origin of the Species and genetic algorithms.

YASKAWA BUSHIDO PROJECT / industrial robot vs sword master

First the robots came for our jobs. Then they came for our chess tournaments. Now, they’re coming for our martial arts too. Meet MOTOMAN-MH24, a robot who, depending on where you stand on the spectrum of robotics, is either a piece of metallic awesomeness, or an absolute nightmare.More of a robotic arm than a full robot, Motoman was given a samurai sword and the opportunity to analyze and “learn” the three-dimensional sword techniques of master swordsman Isao Machii, a modern day samurai and the holder of 5 Guinness World Records pertaining to cutting things.

the WEB is amazing

Real or Photoshop

can you tell if its real or photoshop

Windows 10 and IoT

Back in February, when the launched Raspberry Pi 2, the sharp-eyed among you will have noticed the folks at Microsoft making an announcement about bringing Windows 10 for IoT to the Raspberry Pi. We’re excited to share that it landed today – along with a ridiculously cool demo

Key to Chicago's quality of life: the 'Array of Things'? (BBC News)

A network of sensors, known as the Array of Things, are to be fitted to lampposts, traffic lights and other street furniture in Chicago to help provide a better understanding of the way cities work.The devices can measure a range of variables including air quality, temperature and light.

Drone Football | Pepsi Max | Genius. #LiveForNow

We surprise a group of footballers in Barcelona by transforming their local pitch into an incredible, interactive football arena.

Using drones, advanced projection technology and over 30,000 programmable LED lights we created a football experience unlike any other. 

Watch the players' reactions as their Friday night five-a-side match is elevated to unimaginable heights.

Jetman: Flying is 'the greatest feeling of freedom' (BBC news)

Edward Snowden's smashed laptop goes on show in London (BBC news)

The laptop used to store top-secret documents leaked by National Security Agency (NSA) whistleblower Edward Snowden has gone on display at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.

The device was smashed apart under the instructions of British intelligence officials. It is part of a wider exhibit exploring freedom of speech and internet security.

1980s computer games reviewed by six-year-olds (BBC news)

Children have been trying out some 1980s games at the new National Videogame Arcade in Nottingham, and seeing how they compare to their modern equivalents.

The Raspberry Pi-Powered Future House

Geremy Cohen, PubNub's Director of Client-Side Engineering, walks us through a proof-of-concept model of the PubNub-connected smart home, powered by a Raspberry Pi Model B+.

The house is figuratively glued together using PubNub, allowing us to publish messages into the house to request on-demand readings from the sensors. Additionally, PubNub powers the remote configuration for the smart home, enabling users to trigger the LEDs and control the front door. We can also request the current state of the house, including voltage and intensity levels.

But the most valuable part of the Raspberry Pi-Controlled smart home is its showcase of the missing link in a lot of IoT applications and projects; powering an easy way to stream data in and out of an embedded device. 

The Raspberry Pi-Powered Future House from PubNub on Vimeo.

Argentinian Artist Builds A Weapon of Mass Instruction

Raul Lemesoff, a theatrically loopy artist from Buenos Aires, Argentina, has created a tank-like Arma de Instruccion Masiva that he intends to use to combat ignorance and spread knowledge. As he describes it, his tank is “a structure that has the ability of transporting books, giving away, collecting books, making a mess of people’s heads.”

The Story of Lorem Ipsum: How Scrambled Text by Cicero Became the Standard For Typesetters Everywhere

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My simple invention, designed to keep my grandfather safe‏

60% of people with dementia wander off, an issue that can prove hugely stressful for both patients and caregivers. In this charming talk, hear how teen inventor Kenneth Shinozuka came up with a novel solution to help his night-wandering grandfather and the aunt who looks after him ... and how he hopes to help others with Alzheimer's.

Sarah Bergbreiter: Why I make robots the size of a grain of rice (TED Talk)

By studying the movement and bodies of insects such as ants, Sarah Bergbreiter and her team build incredibly robust, super teeny, mechanical versions of creepy crawlies … and then they add rockets. See their jaw-dropping developments in micro-robotics, and hear about three ways we might use these little helpers in the future.

Japan's virtual dressing rooms (BBC News)

Toshiba has developed a "digital changing booth" that lets customers virtually try on clothes through a display.

The system uses an off-the-shelf 3D scanner and a camera to analyse the customer's body, and then sizes the clothes to fit.

A companion app uses your mobile device to let you mix and match outfits, or place an order.

Toshiba is one of several companies developing virtual dressing rooms using body-scanning technology; unlike rivals, however, they hope to have the booths installed in Japan later this year.

Are machine-written signatures binding? (BBC news)

Signing a document - what could be easier? It takes a few seconds. But do it several thousand times and the task gets more onerous. The likes of US President Barack Obama and the Queen would spend weeks dealing with documents like Christmas cards and letters, not to mention risking serious repetitive strain injuries.

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Many famous people use a device called a ghostwriter, an autopen or a signing machine. It copies the signature from a template and reproduces it many times using a real pen. This is deemed more authentic than simply printing a scanned signature.

But there are questions of legality to consider. 

Read the article on the BBC site

The unbeatable poker playing machine (BBC news)

Researchers at the University of Alberta have created a program that is unbeatable at the game of Texas hold'em poker.

The algorithm, called Cepheus, is able to learn from each playing hand and over time improve its decision making and strategy.

It is even available online for people to test, query and even play against.

The Empty Pickle Jar Movie for Simple Truths

Computers 'judge personality better than friends

Computers can be better at predicting our personality than our friends and family, an experiment with tens of thousands of volunteers has indicated.

Read the full BBC Article

Warriors of the net

This video will help you better understand how data is transmitted on a network

A boy oversleeps on train, uses Google Maps to find family 25 years later