http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=HSKyHmjyrkA&feature=email
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June 26, 2011 7:54 a.m. 914Driver SuperDork
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June 26, 2011 8:10 a.m. EastCoastMojo SuperDork
Very cool! I hadn't seen these before!
I found this video that talks about the different parts of the animals. I say he's a little of all four, but throw in a bit of BRILLIANT.
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June 26, 2011 9:10 a.m. DrBoost SuperDork
Wow, amazing. Simply amazing.
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June 26, 2011 9:15 a.m. EricM SuperDork
brilliant
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June 26, 2011 9:17 a.m. Lesley SuperDork
Oh YES, Theo Jansen is nuts, but in the best way. I love his creations!
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June 26, 2011 11:09 a.m. Curmudgeon SuperDork
Wow. That's amazing.
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June 26, 2011 11:22 a.m. JoeyM SuperDork
that was a lot of mobility from the wind....I wonder how they do on less level terrain. I'm wondering if the winds on Mars would be strong enough to power a NASA rover.
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June 26, 2011 11:54 a.m. mad_machine SuperDork
pure genius.. and yes.. would that work on Mars?
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June 26, 2011 12:29 p.m. jamscal Dork
I want to know, since he says the 'legs' are in fact wheels (loosely paraphrasing here):
if I can make a pedal bike with 4 such legs.
Steering would be tough but it would be awesome just to go straight (until I hit the water, in which case I would go in reverse
)
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June 26, 2011 12:31 p.m. mattmacklind SuperDork
Its awesome. Check out the Rhino.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2KkGFuRLew&playnext=1&list=PL4BC60D6B2552B8B5
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June 26, 2011 1:27 p.m. DILYSI Dave SuperDork
Anyone who claims that PVC is alive and parallels himself to God is trying real hard to fall into the "batE36 M3 insane" bucket.
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June 26, 2011 1:54 p.m. AngryCorvair SuperDork
DILYSI Dave wrote:
Anyone who claims that PVC is alive and parallels himself to God is trying real hard to fall into the "batE36 M3 insane" bucket.
what do you mean? just the other day i saw a piece of newspaper come to life and blow past me in the breeze.
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June 26, 2011 2:01 p.m. jamscal Dork
Come on guys, the world needs crazies and I prefer them to be of this ilk.
If you think that we are 'powered' only because there is a very limited sphere where we can live and there are limits to what we can do...
If the sun didn't shine and the wind didn't blow we wouldn't 'work' or 'live' either...
^^^incomplete thoughts, but I see the parallels and hope I'm at least a little crazy.
-James
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June 26, 2011 2:14 p.m. Salanis SuperDork
The difference between insanity and genius is in the hands of your marketing.
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June 27, 2011 2:30 a.m. Luke SuperDork
Amazing.
He certainly seems at least a little bit insane, but that doesn't detract from the brilliance of it.
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June 27, 2011 4:58 a.m. novaderrik Dork
i'd be all over it if they would make a line of toys based on these things.. imagine an Erector set that allowed you to build different variations..
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June 27, 2011 8:34 a.m. N Sperlo HalfDork
Made it one hour before one got collapsed.
We had a sculpture that was called The Taurus at my community college. Truthfully it looked like a turd and I'm pretty sure the artist was nuts. It looked nothing like a car.
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June 27, 2011 1:55 p.m. corytate Reader
phenomenal. one of the coolenst thing's I've ever seen.
Everyone is a bit insane, and why does the fact that he has the imagination to make something that wonderful, something that will make your eyes light up and your mind think about how you never even thought of something like that, mean that he is more insane than any of us? -
June 27, 2011 3:10 p.m. DILYSI Dave SuperDork
Because the rest of us don't claim to have breathed life into plumbing fittings.
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June 27, 2011 6:58 p.m. corytate Reader
DILYSI Dave wrote:
good point. lolBecause the rest of us don't claim to have breathed life into plumbing fittings.
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June 28, 2011 1:13 a.m. fasted58 HalfDork
when he does it in copper and brass plumbing I'll truly be impressed
