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The worldwide first EAP propelled airship was made at Empa in collaboration with aeroix GmbH and the Technical University of Berlin. This lighter-than-air vehicle with 8 m in length consists of a slightly pressurized Helium filled body of a biologically inspired form with Dielectric Elastomer (DE) actuators acting as muscles and deforming the body and [...]

This featured video is part one of five in Nanoseries, introducing carbon nanotubes. What is a carbon nanotube? Here is the rest of the series- How are carbon nanotubes made? How can we see carbon nanotubes? Where are nanotubes used? Carbon nanoforms

Diana Eng’s beautiful Fairytale Fashion Show @ Eyebeam. Check out fairytalefashion.org for more info.

This is great talk by Dominic Muren on the Digital Fabrication Ecosystem, given @ Dorkbot Seattle, Feb 3 2010. You can download the slides of the talk in PDF form here. Muren, a design professor at the University of Washington, runs the Humblefactory, a product development consultancy offering strategic and design consulting in open hardware, user-assisted [...]

A talk by Bath University Professor Adrian Boyer, creator of the RepRap 3D Printer, given @ FOSDEM. (via Erik de Bruijn)

A mini documentary on RepRap Mendel shot at the University of Bath.