Find Your Friends’ Best Photos, Defend Your Tower, and Peek into the Lives of Powerful People
In this week’s app roundup: Instagram, Colorized; Fieldrunners, Droidified; Powerful People, humanized; Google Maps, downloaded; Chrome, sort of on the iPad; plastic surgery, virtually imagined; words, summarized; and much, much more. The week’s best iPhone apps Pixable: An app that finds the best photos shared by your Facebook friends. It works by ranking photos based…
You’ve Never Seen a Robot Drive System Like This Before
What you’re looking here is a hemispherical omnidirectional gimbaled wheel, or HOG wheel. It’s nothing more than a black rubber hemisphere that rotates like a spinning top, with servos that can tilt it left and right and forwards and backwards. Powered by this simple drive system, the robot that it’s attached to can scoot around…
Report: Masked Beings Hold “Strange Marches” Across US, Distribute Black Globes
How’s this for bizarre? Reports have come in from Denver to New York City to L.A. that “strange marches” are being held in public areas, its members silent and wearing white masks with a single teardrop falling from the left “eye.” They are carrying signs printed simply with “#miracleday” and “miracleday.com” and are distributing tiny…