With the 2007 Indianapolis F1 GP approaching fast, I thought it'd be a great opportunity for all racing fans to review the qualifying lap that put Michael Schumacher in pole position last year, and provided him with an easy win for Ferrari. If the commentary bugs you, just mute the video, at the loss of engine noise

This guy built himself one cool looking (and functioning) ride. It comes fully equipped with eight legs, that when in use make a lot of racket. If you look carefully you can see it slipping until it gets going, so maybe he could've thought of some tire-like rubbery feet for those legs. Just an idea. Pretty cool, though!

This creepy looking robot is Simroid which translates as Pain Girl. This high-tech robot simulates a dental patient complete with pain noises and cavities. Of course, she is controlled by a human, which gives it the chooses the proper responses from a multitude of possibilities. Creepy stuff

This amazing film is from 1908. 100 years ago, if you think about it. Most likely, all the people in this movie are now dead. Yet, there is something magnificent about it. The simplicity about their everyday livers...the sun, the noise of the bussy markets. Simply enchanting! Enjoy!

A stray dog managed to get on the race circuit in Bucharest, Romania. Approximately 20 minutes until the end of the race, a stray dog managed to get through the VIP section and on to the race track. Scared by the tremendous noise of the cars, the dog ran for the pit lane. There it was scared again by people trying to catch him. In the meantime the yellow flag appeared on the track. The dog could not be caught, and went yet again on the track. Only luck saved the poor dog, who had a very near miss with a FIA GT3 super car. Lastly, the dog left the race track by its own power, the way he came in, accompanied by the applause of the spectators.

A new advanced thermometer, based on noise Johnson, increased by five times the accuracy of current systems After seven years of work, researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (Nist), the U.S. organization for the development of technologies, have managed to build a new type of thermometer, Johnson Noise Thermometer (Jnt), defined by the same scientists a goal of thermometry, which advances to five times the current state of the art. The new device will in fact take measurements of extreme precision, never obtained so far, fundamental for basic research and for the definition of units of measurement. At the head of the project is Sam Benz, the Quantum Devices Group, which officially presented it on June 9th at a conference on measures of accuracy in Broomfield, Colorado. The new thermometer provides the temperature starting from noise Johnson (hence the name), generated by the random motion of electrons inside a resistance. This measure is directly proportional to the temperature, and the system makes it possible to reduce the error without any additional calibrations. "All measurements are electrical, and do not require volumes of gas or mechanical systems that sometimes, depending on environmental conditions, could give approximate results." says Benz, " beauty is that the measurement is also very simple to perform. "

No more black and white images: a new electronic tool will observe the chemical species to the wavelengths of visible The color images provided by an ordinary microscope can not make a resolution at the level of individual atoms, while the electronic microscopes, capable of atomic resolution, providing black and white images. In these images different atoms appear as different shades of grey. Now, an electron microscope of a new generation, recently designed and installed at Cornell University and the subject of a study published in Science, will obtain color images at atomic resolution.