Tag: MODEL

Right now, everyone may be focused on J. J. Abrams' reboot of the 'Star Trek' franchise, the Hollywood blockbuster that's received mixed reviews from Trekkers but certainly found success at the box office. Of course, there's over forty years of television and cinematic history that all came before, and this remote control model by a Japanese builder who goes by the name of Starfleet Yokosuka does ...

Brazilian student Jorge Lopes has brought a stunning and creepy new medical technology to the world. Using MRIs, ultrasounds, and 3-D printers often used for prototyping parts and designs in plastic, Lopes has created life-sized models of unborn children. And it all began life as part of his PhD project at the Royal College of Art (RCA). Here's how he does it: 3-D computer images of a pregnant ...

While that perv in the back is busy shooting HRP-4C's firm buttocks shaped from a glossy Stormtrooper alloy, the rest of us can marvel at the fact that Japan has produced a walking, talking fashion robot. Standing at just over 5-feet tall and 95-pounds, HRP-4C, developed by Japan's National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, will make its catwalk debut next week at the Tokyo ...

Scientists use computer simulations to model all sorts of things, from the spread of weather patterns to the spread of disease. But a quartet of researchers at the Indiana University School of Informatics are actually using a computer simulation to simulate other computers, attempting to determine how quickly a widespread attack on public Wi-Fi access points would spread across its user base. ...

We're not exactly sure what would posses someone to build a half-sized replica of the F-35 Lightning II (AKA the Joint Strike Fighter). We're even more puzzled by the fact that this impressively accurate reproduction is actually powered, and a full sized adult can cruise around in this thing at a whopping 5 miles per hour. The 49 year old Arthur van Poppel took 3,500 man hours to construct the ...

For years, the only thing that seemed to be holding back the quick adoption of high-speed Internet access was availability. Faster is better and people will always pay more for better, right? Not necessarily. A new study is showing that availability is no longer the problem; broadband access is out there, but people just don't think it's worth the cost. The study, from the Pew Internet and ...

Is it us, or has Apple truly cultivated a cozy, nice-guy image in the consumer's world of technology? That funny commercial with the uptight PC nerd versus the laid-back Apple innovator type aside, it seems as if Apple's trying to live up to the image. Get this: A model actually wrote her memoir in New York's SoHo Apple Store over a period of three months. Isobella Jade, a diminutive catwalker, ...