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Festo’s Bionic Learning Network 2009!

jackson published on April 20, 2009 in technology and zeitgeist. 1 Comment Tags: , , , , .

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Festo is a German company doing heavy research into bionics. We’ve posted about their incredible lighter-than-air Jellyfish before. Now, Festo has a new video out highlighting some of their breakthroughs, and it is jaw-dropping. Bionic underwater penguins? Check. Bionic lighter-than-air penguins? Check.

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Bionic walls that adapt their shape and behavior based on the movements of passersby? Check.

This may be the most exciting 4:39 you’ll spend today.

Sadly, Festo has disabled embedding, so click on any image to watch the video.

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Cheers boingboing gadgets for the heads up!

Bionics Now!

jordan published on November 6, 2008 in Uncategorized. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , .


SuperForest has posted about innovations in robotic limb technology in the past, like the Hal-5 exoskeleton, or DEKA’s bionic arm… but nothing quite compares to Touch Bionics latest advancement, the i-limb!

Looking very much like Luke Skywalker’s prosthetic arm from Star Wars, the i-limb is now the first commercially available bionic hand. Controllable completely by thought, and with amazing mobility, grip and 5 separately working fingers, the i-limb took over 20 years to develop and has been named by Time magazine as one of the top inventions of the year!

More and more it seems our reality is catching up to science fiction. We’ve got Star Wars arms, Minority Report televisions, humanoid I-Robots, and Buzz Lightyear flying men. wake me when personal teleporters and hovercars arrive.


Oh wait, they already have!

Is it weird to anyone else they got Sigmund Freud in the driver’s seat? I’m starting to believe we just might see it all in our lifetimes!

The Future is Now!