MetaFilter posts tagged with biomechanics

200 Centimeters under the Sea

Kronos_to_Earth — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 22:35:08 -0800

"To pedal the 3700 kilometres of open water from Cape Verde off the west coast of Africa to Barbados in the Caribbean should take around 50 days..." Engineer and machinist Ted Ciamillo has built a human powered mini-submarine, designed around a larger version of his Lunocet carbon-fibre "tail" for divers, for an Atlantic Ocean crossing.... The "SubHuman project".

The X Finger

phrontist — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 12:06:03 -0800

The X Finger a prosthetic for digital amputees.

Meat is Neat: Cellular biophysics video

five fresh fish — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 20:19:00 -0800

Meat is Neat. We are but tiny machines. Remember the YouTube video of a funky animation of cellular activity? Here it is with a voice explanation of what's going on. Absolutely mindblowing. some sort of embedded video, dsl-quality with sound. see here for other forms

Self-Replicating Robots

Guerilla — Wed, 11 May 2005 14:31:57 -0800

Self-Replicating Robots are here! (.wmv)