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What Would You Stick Under A Scanning Electron Microscope? [Qotd]

Posted on 10th March 2010 by admin in , hd, update, us | Tags: aspex, elemental, great-service, left-image500, like-these, maria-popova, microscope, posts-tagged, stick-under, update, viewed-under

Here’s some tasty-looking hard candy. And here’s that same tasty-looking hard candy scanned by an SEM. Tuns out that there’s a company offering to stick almost anything under an electron microscope and we can’t help but wonder: What to pick?

SEM Elemental Analysis company ASPEX is offering this great service where people can submit their own samples to be viewed under a scanning electron microscope. They even post results—like these—on the site:

Now, back to the big question: What would you want to see scanned by an SEM? [Aspex via Maria Popova]

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What Would You Stick Under A Scanning Electron Microscope? [Qotd]

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First Walking Lego Mecha Is Looking for Lego Godzilla [Lego]

Posted on 10th March 2010 by admin in , hd, us, video | Tags: aspex, godzilla, lego, legohaulic, like-these, material, microscope, pretty-sweet, robots, should-start, stick-under, toy-robots, update, usual

Lego biped robots are a dime a dozen, even while some look pretty sweet . This one is special: It’s the first walking Lego robot. And, unlike your usual feet-dragging toy robots, it actually walks by raising its feet

Lego biped robots are a dime a dozen, even while some look pretty sweet. This one is special: It’s the first walking Lego robot. And, unlike your usual feet-dragging toy robots, it actually walks by raising its feet.

This is definitely not easy to do with Lego or any other material. Maybe this guy should start thinking about building a Big Dog. [Flickr via Brothers Brick]