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Happy Hanukkah to all those Craziest Gadgets readers celebrating the festival of lights starting this weekend. A few mechanical engineering students from Technion (Israeli Institute of Technology) have created a Rube Goldberg machine (appropriately enough, as Rube would have celebrated the holiday) to light a Chanukah menorah in as many steps as possible. Using helium balloons, dominoes, toy cars, a bicycle tire, some nitroglycerin, and eventually a robotic arm, the team created a Chanukkah miracle of engineering as seen in the video:
Apparently that’s how Israeli geeks light the menorah. And I believe we haven’t use this spelling yet: Chanuka. Ok bases covered. Have a great holiday everyone, try not to eat too many latkes (try).
Rube Goldberg Machine Lights a Hanukkah Menorah
Intel's chief technology officer, Justin Rattner, doesn't own a smartphone. Well, not by his definition anyway. Talking in Tel Aviv, Rattner was evangelizing about the opportunities in machine learning, and outlining the goals of the firm's Collaborative Research Institute for Computational Intelligence. Working with Technion and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Intel plans to develop small, wearable computers that learn our behavioral patterns -- like where we left our keys -- and other things today's "smart" phones could never do. Intel's Israeli president, Mooly Eden, went on to claim that within five years, all five senses will be computerized, and in a decade, transistors per chip will outnumber neurons in the human brain. All that tech to stop you locking yourself out.
Intel research hopes to give computers human smarts, appreciate our idiosyncrasies originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 24 May 2012 10:46:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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