While Intel is busy revamping its laptop processors, AMD is focused on the desktop side of personal computing. The chip designer has started shipping its 7th-generation A-series processors in desktop PCs, starting with machines from HP and Lenovo. Th...
In this this new commercial for Statoil gas stations in Norway, a construction worker uses an 8.5-ton excavator to prepare a hot dog and feed it to his friend. Safely.
This takes some serious skill. I’m not saying I couldn’t do it. I could. But I would knock that guys face off, break all of his teeth, and probably drop the hot dog in his face-hole.
First he uses the excavator to pick up the bun, then split the bun, add some lettuce, the hot dog, onions and condiments, then delivers the hot dog right to the other guy’s mouth.
I gotta say, this excavator makes one nice looking hot dog. One day we fat, lazy Americans will have smaller home machines to feed us like this.
It takes a steady hand to operate a piece of heavy construction equipment, and Finland-based excavator operator Juha-Pekka Perämäki is just the man to do it. In fact, he’s so good at it, he used a Hitachi medium excavator to stack and play with LEGO Duplo blocks. He must have nerves of steel, because he is so precise that it’s crazy.
When Perämäki is not working as a machine operator, he races rally cars. That helps explain his reflexes.
Want to see someone just as talented? In the second video, his colleague Petri Perämäki builds a tower of nuts with the same machine. This guy is just as precise and steady.
I would break every piece and cause like a million bucks in damage if I tried this.
Bigger is always better, especially if you want to get the internet’s attention. This super-sized game of Jenga should get the even the most cynical netizens to take notice.
This is Jenga on steroids. Note that call the game “Stack”, because nobody wants to get sued. The playing pieces are 600-pound blocks of wood and the players are operating five different pieces of heavy equipment to remove them. The video is a promotional video from Cat Products (Caterpillar) and you have to hand it to them, this is a great way to draw attention to their equipment.
All I know is, When that stack falls over, you’d better be standing well away from it.
AMD gave us a tease of its next-generation Steamroller architecture in 2012, but things weren't looking good for pro users when the initial timeline had current-generation Piledriver technology as the focus for Opterons in 2013. Thanks to a newer investor presentation, there's a glimmer of hope for the workstation and server users among us. Its roadmap shows Steamroller-equipped Opteron variants arriving this year, with an Excavator follow-up coming at an undetermined point in the future. There's nothing about specific timelines and models, as you might imagine -- AMD isn't going to spoil its plans quite so readily -- but the presentation reminds us that Steamroller will put an emphasis on the parallelism that's oh so vital to high-end computing. We're mostly glad to hear that IT backrooms will have something genuinely new to play with while we're off enjoying its Kaveri counterpart at home.
NASA believes our return to the Moon could be sustained by extracting water from the lunar soil to produce air and even fuel. But how to get large amounts of that soil without bringing heavy, failure-prone machinery? The agency's RASSOR (pronounced "razor") excavator robot might do the trick. Rather than wield big scoops, it has a pair of arm-mounted drums that can change the robot's profile and dig with far more efficiency than RASSOR's 100-pound weight would usually allow, using one drum as a grip. The robot's sheer flexibility is also key to its working for the estimated five years of NASA's plans: if the crawler ever overturns or gets caught, it can flip over and keep the main treads out of the ground while clearing out soil-related jams. There's enough refinement needed that a RASSOR 2 follow-up should be in testing around early 2014, but the sequel will be close enough to the ideal design that long-term Moon missions could have the little hauler as a passenger.
While Intel is busy revamping its laptop processors, AMD is focused on the desktop side of personal computing. The chip designer has started shipping its 7th-generation A-series processors in desktop PCs, starting with machines from HP and Lenovo. Th...
