It's finally happened - in fact, I'm surprised it's taken so long. A robot has been invented which can solve a Rubik's cube faster than the current human world record.
In news which will probably devastate current world record holder, 15-year-old Feliks Zemdegs, the Cubestormer II has solved a Rubik's cube in 5.35 seconds, beating Zemdegs' record (set at the Melbourne Winter Open 2011) by 0.31 seconds. The robot is built around a Samsung Galaxy SII smartphone, and is made of four Lego units which communicate with the phone by Bluetooth.
Watch the video below, and marvel at how far robots have come - they're now strictly better than nerds. Look out, people who aren't nerds! You're next.
Saturday 22 October 2011
Sunday 2 October 2011
Cookie Bowls
Just seen this post from Lifehacker, celebrating this recipe found on the Wilton website (Wilton is a company that makes cake making products in the USA). I can't believe nobody thought of this before. Maybe someone did. I'm still impressed.
The basic premise is to take a muffin tray, turn it over, and then mould cookie dough around the backs of the indentations. When baked, this will leave you with some righteous cup-shaped cookies, the possible uses of which are myriad - although if you don't immediately fill one with ice cream, you're basically a fool (or someone who doesn't like ice cream). Other suggestions made by commenters on both sites include using them to drink milk out of (milk and cookies, taken to its logical awesome conclusion), filling them with chocolate mousse, or fruit and cream, and of course, since it's America, bacon does get mentioned. There's even an idea for a savoury version with some kind of cheese porridge. Mental.
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