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Nitrogen, oxygen, hydrogen and carbon. From those four simple elements we get the invigorating caffeine molecule. And it’s been helping great minds for a long time. Composer Ludwig Van Beethoven liked his coffee brewed with exactly 60 beans per cup. President Teddy Roosevelt is said to have gulped a gallon a day. While we don’t recommend drinking that much in one day, we do approve of downing...

Michelangelo used chisel and stone. Alexander Calder used a welding torch and steel. And sculptors of today are using code and 3D printing to create shapes that bend the imagination. Nervous System - Colony Dezeen.com - 3D-printed sculptures create optical illusions using the Fibonacci...

What if you could always have custom shoes for your foot that’s slightly bigger than the other? What if you could scan your feet and create shoes that fit you as uniquely as your fingerprint? What if you could think of new, innovative shapes for shoes and try them on within a day? With 3D printing technology (additive manufacturing), it’s possible. Wired.com - 3D Printed Shoes: A Step in...

An Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte (1884-1886) George Seurat Every time you look at a computer screen or digitally printed image, your brain is merging tiny pixels or dots of color together to form a solid image. It’s the modern usage of a theory developed in the 1880s by two French painters, George Seurat and Paul Signac. Instead of using brushstrokes, they used tiny points of...

DEMO DAY: DOUBLE ROBOTS Come learn about and test the telepresence robots on wheels made famous by shows like "Big Bang Theory" and "Modern Family." People anywhere in the world can click a link and talk to others through a speaker on the robot, view the robot's environment via a webcam, and control the robot's movements all from their home computers MICROSOFT WORD CRASH COURSE Need to learn...