Drinking my hard cider, finding the best idears can sure be hard work. Post your discoveries too! http://mervservediy.blogspot.com/search/label/diy #diy #weird

This feller made some Lannister Armor from Game of Thrones (3d printing + Leatherwork + sewing) [EXPAND]

https://imgur.com/a/w0k13via/r/ DIY https://www.reddit.com/r/DIY/comments/70ay6t/so_i_made_a_set_of_lannister_armor_from_game_of/?utm_source=ifttt#diy

You have to have some extra time on your hands to attempt such an undertaking!

Masonic Coin? What is this? [ENLARGE]

https://i.redd.it/3ku1yooz23mz.jpg via/r/whatisthisthing https://www.reddit.com/r/whatisthisthing/comments/70bfv5/possibly_masonic_what_are_this/?utm_source=ifttt #oddities #weird

Supposedly washed up in Pompano beach following storm. What on earth is this monster? [ENLARGE]

https://i.redd.it/uim2xfiaw2mz.jpg via/r/whatisthisthing https://www.reddit.com/r/whatisthisthing/comments/70b6vs/supposedly_washed_up_in_pompano_beach_following/?utm_source=ifttt #oddities #weird

REGARDING MY ORIGIN: UNRAVELLING THE MYSTERY

I've received a lot of emails via my main site and I will admit sometimes when I reflect on my "birth", I feel a bit like a character on Westworld. That's all I'm sayin'  http://j.mp/2ycjdEZ

My "BIRTH" day.

My occasional ROBOT REVOLUTION WARNING!

 Kuri’s definitely the most adorable home robot, even if that’s not that hard an honor to claim given the relatively sparse competitive field. But it’s even cuter now, because it can now dance. The debut product from Mayfield Robotics shows off its moves in a brand new video from the company, dancing to a pancake robot song. If you missed it Kuri debuted at CES last year, and… Read More

My occasional ROBOT REVOLUTION WARNING!

 What happens when a mad scientist’s musicbots rebel against their own precision? You get “Automatica”, the latest video from Nigel Stanford, who scored 13 million views controlling water, fire, and lightning with sound in his viral hit “Cymatics”. Stanford tells us “I’m trying to create an online version of Synethsesia – the brain disorder… Read More

MERV'S GADGET GAWKIN' Found this: I don’t want the new iPhone X and I can’t be alone

 Apple announced the latest iPhone yesterday. It’s thinner, faster and has a better screen than the previous model. But of course it does. That’s how these things go. But the phone also lacks things I consider part of my daily life. I’m lost. This iPhone is not for me. Without these two features, I’ll stick with the boring and passé iPhone 8. The iPhone X follows a… Read More

My occasional ROBOT REVOLUTION WARNING!

 Asus, the Taiwanese hardware firm known for its ZenBooks, ZenFones and Zenbo the cute, humanoid robot, is stepping into the VC game with the launch of a $50 million venture capital fund. Managed in partnership with Fenox Venture Capital, it will focus on strategic investments with startups that want to enter Asian markets. Read More

My occasional ROBOT REVOLUTION WARNING!

 From Frankenstein to I, Robot, we have for centuries been intrigued with and terrified of creating beings that might develop autonomy and free will. And now that we stand on the cusp of the age of ever-more-powerful artificial intelligence, the urgency of developing ways to ensure our creations always do what we want them to do is growing. For some in AI, like Mark Zuckerberg, AI is just… Read More

My occasional ROBOT REVOLUTION WARNING!

 Robots are going to have to work together if they want to destroy us, their soft, fallible masters. But the current paradigm of having a Skynet-like (or rather, Zerglike) overmind control a set of semi-autonomous drones is too easy to beat — take out the brain and the rest fail, right? Not if they’re all the brain, which is the idea demonstrated in a wonderful new paper in Nature. Read More