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The Flight of the Moose

Steve Bond’s Spruce Moose flew for seven glorious seconds and thoroughly schooled all competition thus proving it to be the ultimate paper plane design.Young engineering students work out how to 1up each other with their designs looking for inspiration from jets, birds, et cetera. You don’t have to go through all that trouble though. Just follow this guide of sixteen easy...

Delve 13: The 3 minute poster

Volume four, Issue thirteen is up of Delve (web magazine) which focuses on the premise of three minute poster design charette. It features the work of Frank Derose, Faith Laurel and Paul Lombardi. Check it, check it out. Sharing:

DARPA Grand Challenge 2005 Results

We have a winner! The DARPA Grand Challenge this year was a huge contrast from last year and we now have an official announcement of a clear winner. Congradulations to Stanford’s “Stanley” for winning the $2 000 000 cash prize for first place. This race is only going to get better every year. The winning time was 6:53:58 which is quite impressive too. Sharing:

Fantasy World Government

Nelson Mandela came up trumps in the BBC global government fantasy election. It is an interesting list though it is debatable how much people have thought their votes through. It would seem that people really look up to leaders of industry as much as geopolitical leaders. Richard Branson beat out Kofi Annan for example. Go figure. Also notice Bill Clinton coming in at a strong second, regardless of fellatio. JK...

2005 Visualisation Challenge: Infographics

Congratulations to Cheryl Aaron at Omega Optical Inc. for winning first place in the 2005 Viz Challenge Infographics competition with Fluoressence: The Essence of Fluorescence. The winners and honorable mentions in all the other categories are also definitely worth noting. It makes us pine for a gallery of all the challenge entries from all the categories. The brain salivates at the...
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