• Wonderful World of Research

    I remember how cool it would have gone to school at and work as an animator for Disney. Now it seems that Pixar, also now a Disney company, is such a fun job. Just stumbled on two posts via NotCot that leads me to think how fun being at Disney Research would be.  There is the Computational Design of Mechanical Characters:

    With 3d printing becoming much more ubiquitous, the printing of fiber optics with it seems to open even more possibilities: Papillon: Expressive Eyes for Interactive Characters. Or having a different tactile sensation from a glass screen with TeslaTouch.

    Why not enjoy the cooler parts of this technology before all this becomes self aware and destroys us.

  • Bad things keep happening…

    This past week some really bad stuff went down. First, some Asiana intern decided to answer a question he wasn’t supposed to answer and confirmed a list of names that were allegedly members of the flight crew of Flight 214. See if you can figure out what’s wrong:

    Then, someone in the auto industry thought it would be a swell idea to roll out a family friendly SUV with an extra helping of family friendly-ness. Somewhere, one of Toyota’s vehicle designers dropped a shit ton of acid (presumably while watching Nickelodeon) and came up with this monstrosity:

    http://jalopnik.com/lets-discuss-the-nightmare-that-is-the-spongebob-toyot-758277866

    If you can get the link to work, yes, that’s a yellow interior, electric blue wavy ceiling with an exterior featuring Spongebob and friends plastered all over the outside. It’s horrible.

    Finally, there’s this: