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Tag: monitor

Eva Wentink’s Self-Monitoring Toilet Musings

January 6, 2022 Marc Abrahams

Eva Wentink from OnePlanet (an institute created in a partnership of Wageningen University and Research, Radboud University Nijmegen and IMEC) muses, low-key charismatically, about the need and feasibility of a self-monitoring toilet. She explains how and why she and her colleagues built three toilets: (Thanks to Michiel Scheffer for bringing this to our attention.)

Arts and Science, Research Newsmonitor, self, toilet

The mantis on the monitor

February 13, 2010 Marc Abrahams

A mantis playing with (or being played with by a human via) a cursor. This epic one-minute nature adventure was video’d by Maria Plumb and Rod Thompson (and propagated by BoingBoing):

Arts and Sciencecomputer, cursor, insect, mantis, monitor
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