I don’t want this to be a “slashdot-of-the-day” blog, but this story just really caught my eye:
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.11/davinci.html?tw=wn_tophead_8
“Leonardo’s automobile,” a three-wheeled cart that has never been able to be recreated, it turns out, is actually a robot with programmable instructions!
For those of you keeping up with Da Vinci, this isn’t as far fetched as it sounds (and many Da Vinci facts have become more well known since Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code sparked wide-spread common interest in Da Vinci – even if a handful of geography facts in the book are switched).
It continues to amaze me how incredibly that man was…
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