Folks at Cornell University figured out how to use coffee grounds and air to add gripping — grab this! grab that! — capabilities to a robotic hand. This video shows and tells how: (Thanks to investigator Margaret Tuley for bringing this to our attention.)
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How to spill coffee: a science demonstration
Neuroscientist Gustav Nilsonne demonstrates how and why it’s difficult to walk while carrying a cup of coffee. This photo was taken at last night’s Ig Nobel show at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm Sweden. The physics of this led to an Ig Nobel prize being awarded year to Rouslan Krechetnikov and Hans Mayer for their study “Walking […]
The sound of the taste of your coffee
The Edible Geography blog tells of an innovatively intense, focused approach to listening to people eat: …in a paper to be published in June 2013 in the journal Food Hydrocolloids, scientist George A. Van Aken of NIZO, a Dutch food research company, reveals a new method of measuring mouthfeel: the wonderfully named “acoustic tribology.” Van Aken took a tiny […]
Calculated death (or whatever) by coffee
David Ng estimates: A calculation to see how many cups of coffee you would need to drink in order to kill yourself. I thought it might be interesting to do some back of the envelope calculations to bring to you, some information on how many cups of coffee to avoid drinking, so as to not […]