The inventor of the super-hyped segway scooter has accomplished something a little more serious: highly impressive mechanical prosthetics.

Matt Robinson told me to do it. I did it, and now I’m telling you to do it. Wave at a stranger and keep waving until they wave back at you. It will work; you will both smile!

I feel like I should maybe add a category to this blog, like “Things That Used to be Fiction,” but this article over at Physorg illustrates just how close we currently are to the summer’s biggest blockbuster so far.

A brand is not just a logo. A brand is the associations that a person possesses in regard to a particular company or product. And until now, what a company’s brand is has probably remained largely unknown to anyone but PR and marketing people who might take a survey. So it’s very educational to see Brand tags attempt to visualize this collective psyche revolving around brands.

Arthur Shapiro, the man behind the Constrast Asynchrony Illusion has announced that he has a backlog of thousands of optical illusions and is intending to regularly post them to his blog. Great, now I can get dizzy sitting at the computer at least once a week!