Imagine a car made from fabric that can change its shape flexibly like a clay. Imagine no more, BMW has it:
It’s really jaw dropping to see it in action. You must see it if you haven’t already, it’s the future of cars!
I just added an image to Gravatar so that it will appear as my avatar when I comment on blogs. It’s just exactly my old WordPress.com avatar, the mathematical integral image. When adding, I met this amusing screen midway:
In this era of uber-connectedness, there are actually still regions of our vast world remote to us modern humans. A few days ago, aerial photos of one of the last uncontacted tribes surfaced over the internet. The tribe that lives on the Amazon forest near the Brazil-Peru border can be seen trying to shoot down the heli with arrows. Seeing the photos was amazing to the point of not believing it, since my mind instinctively denied that it was anything but a screenshot from an RTS game.
This is not exactly new stuff, but I just recently found it.
Chimpanzees are known as a highly intelligent animal. They use stone and wooden tools, hunt in coordination, and can be taught limited sign language. What might be surprising is that on a particular intellectual test devised by Tetsuro Matsuzawa, young chimps outperforms university students.
Here’s a simple explanation of the test, which is actually a fun game: