Ok, I’m not huge on robots (despite naming my company Ghost Robot, wait what am I talking about. I love robots…) but this is pretty dope.

Hat tip to Design Taxi read more about it on their site.

Bioengineers have made an artificial jellyfish using silicone and muscle cells from a rat’s heart. The synthetic creature, dubbed a medusoid, looks like a flower with eight petals. When placed in an electric field, it pulses and swims exactly like its living counterpart.

Read more at Nature.com

thanks to @greatdismal for the link

I don’t really go in for phone cases.  My iPhone is happily scratched and battle scarred. But generally I need it to be as small as possible, so adding unnecessary girth is not an option, not to mention having to fumble with compromised button access (I still still think the iphone could use more tactile buttons – and while we’re at it, it could use a pro-iOS interface instead of the Playschool-style app screens, I mean jesus, people have more than 10 apps these days, flipping through screens is ridiculously weak UI – but back to cases).

Check this bad boy out.

Using the slider on this map you can see the most densely populated places in the world.

Interact with the map here.

A platform for The Gatecrashers Daily Logs. We’ll have to Ideo to get this into production.

Let us know if you need a test story-world to launch with.

Read this article about an 83 year old woman who had a jaw replacement with a 3D printed object.

via adafruit.com [update 02.06.12: nytimes found the story]

3D Printing for body mod parts.  Keep your eyes on Makerbots, it will be the HP of the future.

This one in via @greatdismal thanks Bill.

A similar story by New York Times.

The seeds of elective body modification are born every day. These out of a tragic accident, but a truly inspiring story via Fresh Air on NPR.

“My biological body will degrade in time due to normal, age-related degeneration. But the artificial part of my body improves in time because I can upgrade. … So I predict that when I’m 80 years old, I’ll be able to walk with less energy than is required of a person who has biological legs, I’ll be more stable, and I’ll probably be able to run faster. … The artificial part of my body is, in some sense, immortal.”

Photo: Len Rubenstein/Crown Business

Here’s a true foundation for bio-electric body mod controls. This one came from io9.com

[This technology] provides a huge conceptual advance in wedding the biological world to the cyber world in a manner that is very natural. In some sense, the boundary between the electronics world and the biological world is becoming increasingly amorphous. The ramifications of this are mind-blowing, to say the least.

Thanks for the tip [Geek].

This video of networked robots speaks for itself.

Thanks for the share Adam.