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Here’s a pretty awesome prototype of a bipedal robot. Although it’s a pretty simple video it’s a very complicated task.
Make: Online : PETMAN Prototype

An interesting article with video about a hand that is hooked into the nerves to give the wearer a sense of feeling. Sounds like some amazing technology.
First Artificial Hand that Can Feel

Here is an interesting post from kottke.org, some high frame rate footage of bullets hitting various materials. I watched with the volume off, but it’s worth ten minutes time in my opinion. The most interesting part I thought was what appeared to be ballistics gel near the end.
Bullets are slow

Those who know me know that I’m a software engineer who recently made the switch from Linux to OS X. It’s an entirely different world with regard to programming so I’ve been trying to get my head around some of the tools and concepts that are used in building OS X applications. Coredata [...]

Make has this post on this awesome yet creepy vocoded piano.
Make: Online : Mechanical reproduction of digitized speech on a piano