Howto Make A Metapizza Out Of Pizza-flavored Snack Items

Kari Schuster constructed a "pizza" out of pizza-flavored snack-foods harvested from gas-stations and grocery stores. The process stained her fingers orange and clogged her nostrils with the "gentle aroma of fake cheese and tomato." She claims it was delicious.

It occurred to me that up until now I had been limiting myself to pizza only in its natural state. It was obvious what I had to do next — find as many pizza-flavored items as I could and turn them into a pizza.[Editor's note: Sweet Jesus.]

Eat —> I’ve Never Meta-Pizza I Didn’t Like (via Neatorama)

HOWTO make a metapizza out of pizza-flavored snack items

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Shape-shifting robot can grip differently-shaped items

Video link. The Jambot is a shape-changing robotic prototype being developed by a team led by University of Chicago Physicist Heinrich Jaeger and his group through a DARPA initiative. Also involved is iRobot, the company best known for the Roomba. He and [colleague Eric] Brown have designed a gripper using jamming and flexible structures that could replace a robotic claw. A typical claw needs hinges, motors, and feedback sensors to prevent it from crushing the object it's trying to hold, and the computational power to operate them. But Jaeger's jamming-based gripper is more like a beanbag, flowing around the object and then holding it gently. "We came at this from a completely different perspective," he says, "looking for a way to short-circuit this inherent complexity." For those want to try a HOWTO, Carlos Asmat, Jr. has a cool web entry and video of his DIY version of the gripper using a balloon, tubing, cloth, a rubber band, and ground coffee. (via University of Chicago Magazine)...

Shape-shifting robot can grip differently-shaped items

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