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Two Guys Solve Five Rubik’s Cubes While Juggling

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There are nerds and then there are NERDS. These nerds are some kind of super-nerd wizards with amazing powers. They are out-nerding all of the nerdiest nerds. The proof is in the video below, in which Ravi Fernando and Nick Thomas solve five Rubik’s Cubes while juggling. I see great potential for a nerd circus to evolve from this act… and I want to be the ringleader.

Watch as these guys each solve cubes one-handed while passing three more cubes with their other hand. Marvel as they finish each cube, then switch it out and start the next one. Step right up and see this amazing feat of geek! For their next act, they will perform a daring Star Wars vs. Star Trek debate, while solving and juggling ten Rubik’s Cubes as William Shatner and Mark Hamill also debate standing between them! It’s gonna be a great show. Call me guys, we can set this up. I’ll only take 10% of the ticket sales.

These guys are way more talented than I will ever be at both solving Rubik’s Cubes and juggling. They have a real future in all kinds of puzzle solving sports.

[via Geekologie]

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Cheyenne Woods Does Tiger’s Golf Ball Juggling on Instagram

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This is how you create a social media hit yourself. Perform the Tiger Wood's golf ball juggling routine from the classic Nike ad from 1999 and post it on Instagram. It helps of course if you are the...

Disney Research robot plays catch and juggles with humans, won’t replace their parents (update: cameras explained!)

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Disney Research robot catches and juggles with its human lackeys, won't replace our parents video

It's entirely possible for robots to juggle or play catch. They've usually been relegated to playing with their own kind, however, which is as good an excuse as any for Disney Research to experiment with a ball-tossing robot tailored to games with humans. The animatronic creation uses a depth-aware motion camera -- there's conflicting mentions of using both the Microsoft Kinect and ASUS' Xtion Pro Live that we're hoping to sort out -- to track any mid-air balls as well as throw them back to a human participant. Disney's robot does more than just move the robot's arm to account for imperfect tosses, too, as it knows to feign a dejected look after a botched reception. The company suggests that its invention would ideally bring two-way interaction to theme parks, so it's more likely to show up at Disneyland before it stands in for a parent in the backyard. It's just as well; when the Robopocalypse comes, the last thing we'll want at home is a machine that can toss grenades.

Update: Team member Jens Kober has filled us in on just why both cameras are mentioned. The team started off using the Kinect and switched to the Xtion Pro Live, once it was available, to get hardware-synced timing between a regular camera and the depth camera. The project didn't require the panning motor or microphone array of Microsoft's system.

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University of Calgary’s Fat Thumb trick allows one-handed phone use, jugglers are thankful (video)

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University of Calgary researchers devise Fat Thumb trick for onehanded phone use, jugglers are thankful video

Everyone's let it happen at some point -- that moment where we're desperately trying to use our smartphones in one hand while juggling groceries or coffee in the other. There'll be no way to recover those social graces, but six researchers at the University of Calgary have developed a software technique, Fat Thumb, that should at least keep the contortions and dropped phones to a minimum. As the name implies, it's all based around pressure: a light touch performs the usual commands, while squishing the thumb's wider surface area against the screen allows the equivalent of a multi-touch gesture, such as a pinch to zoom. The advantages for comfort and grip virtually speak for themselves; what's surprising is that Fat Thumb may well be faster than other one-handed gestures. Work on the project is so far confined to a research paper stemming from experiments with an iPhone, although it's easy to see this spreading to other platforms and real products before too long. Catch a glimpse of the cleverness in action after the break.

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Chiba University’s one-armed robot juggles balls, is not a Juggalo (video)

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Two balls, one hand? In this case, that's a definite yes, although the end result is much more appropriate for all ages. Furthering our slow creep towards engineering's Uncanny Valley, comes a cybernetic effort out of Japan's Chiba University that's made to mock our most precious clown-past time: juggling. The one-armed, three-fingered robot, shown off at the 2012 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, utilizes a high-speed camera to track a ball's flight at 500fps and help coordinate its repetitive movements with eerie precision. The current setup's not without hitches, though, considering the bot's fixed shoulder joint can only carry out successful catches on a 2D plane before, quite literally, dropping the ball. Refinements are apparently on the way to expand the cyborg limb's range of motion which, of course, will only serve to defeat us in the end. Robot apocalypse, we're looking at you.

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