Theo Jansen's Strandbeests

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The one Leonardo would enjoy these things, maybe:-)

http://youtu.be/HSKyHmjyrkA
 

mario 1 months

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Marjatta 1 months ago:

I bet he would have done that. Most likely invented that by himself;-).
I've seen this video but it was good to refresh again my meory concerning this invention.

mario 1 months ago:

I would consider this work useless, Marjatta. Unless a decade or two generation later, this will have been the seed for something useful. Or not.

Strikes me how, all things being equal, intrinsecal motivation (here one can feel it without asking anything) produces a sort of entirely different results and products that extrinsecal motivation (eg. money) tends to produce given the same brain at "work".

If we could suddenly wash away the need (I tend to admit that there is a need) and enormous pressure to conform to a certain subset of possibilities, how original and different one from the other each and all 8 billions of us really are?

JessieArias 1 months ago:

I would use that as a tool to plant - to place seeds in the ground..or something, yes more useful... :P


I would like to see that, everyone expressing with out the pressure to create something just to have Money!
Out invention/Creation would have more value - I think! Cause it was made as an expression...like the breath...something Natural---Simple! ....

Marjatta 1 months ago:

The gadget looks ugly to my "estethic eye". Also I would not like to have such robot in my backyard. Maybe I'm oldfashioned;-).

mario 1 months ago:

Probably;-)

isamarob 1 months ago:

It's kind of creepy watching how this gadget moves, but as Jessie said, maybe for this kind of work or arriving to difficult places where man can't they would be useful. By the moment is just for showing us up the work of this person. :-P

And I agree with Marjatta, would be strange to see this stuff at home..jaja