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From reading the io9 article, it sounds like this robot is designed as a replacement for the home phone. Why speak to someone far away with a stick to your face, when you can use a creepy moving blob robot instead. I like the idea, but it does look like a creature from Eraserhead.
"The silicon-skinned Telenoid R1 was designed to be entirely featureless so that people in its presence can project their vision of the Telenoid's user onto the little glob. Even Ishiguro and his team acknowledge that the Telenoid's appearance is a smidge disconcerting"-Io9
The video looks like their recording a promo for the robot or testing out how it works with people.From reading the io9 article, it sounds like this robot is designed as a replacement... more
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The cute but hideous Blobfish is now facing extinction due to the increased levels of fishing in Australia and Tasmania, where it usually floats waiting for food but is now being trapped in nets for other catches.
Should we save this noble and blob like fish...thing? we should at least keep one around and name him bob the blobfish.The cute but hideous Blobfish is now facing extinction due to the increased levels of... more
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Prague is well known for its Gothic churches and Baroque palaces, not its modern architecture. In order to counterbalance this, an international contest to design an ultra-modern library was held. The winner? A funky-looking yellow and purple blob, planned to nestle between Prague Castle and the Old Town. Not everyone was thrilled and the project now faces an uncertain future. ...
From France24 Observers
http://observers.france24.com/en/content/20100111-prague-blob-czech-future-systems-octopus-national-library-kaplickyPrague is well known for its Gothic churches and Baroque palaces, not its modern... more
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Editor’s Note: Hey folks! Sorry for the hiatus! Green Air’s been getting busy with lots of new partners and contributors including the author of this piece, Kristin Arrigo. She’s the newest addition to the Green A-Team, a columnist for the Nashua Telegraph and we’re THRILLED to have her aboard. Enjoy!
The ‘blob’ or sometimes referred to as the ‘glob’ , or the ‘goo’, is 12 miles long of black filamentous, or ‘hairy’ plant life. Strongly resembling an oil spill, it was discovered in a far end of Alaska on July 16, 2009.
While the growth of algae is a natural occurrence, this particular strain is considered at this point, aside from trapping a few jellyfish, to be unique. The growth of algae is a response to the way light and nutrients combine in water. These conditions may include an area of low water level, creating a surface algae. Algae grows very quickly once the perfect conditions present themselves.
So what does it all mean? Well, that is yet to come, but it is possible that this algae form is nature’s response to global warming in a more positive way than we are used to concluding when we hear the phrase ‘ response to global warming’.
Blooming algae is one of the greatest cleaners of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Cold water, is nutrient rich, stimulating algae to bloom. The remote location of the origin of ‘the blob’ was in an area where the surface water is extremely cold. This cold, cold water which exists normally at the bottom of the ocean, now on the surface combining with sunlight, at the intensity it is at these days, and the right nutrients and voila, it’s the blob! Allowed to grow undisturbed, the algae is undeterred from it’s global mission.
However, certainly only blanket statements from scientists are currently available, because the analysis will take some time.
What we do know is best summed up by Coast Guard Petty Officer 1st Class Terry Hasenauer (who) says, “It’s certainly biological. It’s definitely not an oil product of any kind. It has no characteristics of an oil, or a hazardous substance, for that matter. It’s definitely, by the smell and the makeup of it, it’s some sort of naturally occurring organic or otherwise marine organism.”Editor’s Note: Hey folks! Sorry for the hiatus! Green Air’s been getting... more
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A strange floating mass of the northern coast of Alaska caused some concern. It has been identified as a huge algae bloom. Although such things do happen this is still weird because no one remembers another one like it. Ever...A strange floating mass of the northern coast of Alaska caused some concern. It has... more
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