Webwatch Issue 218

Webwatch Issue 218

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Objêts

*Auto origami: Flat plastic shapes that fold themselves into 3D when you shine a light on them.

The walkable roller-coaster. Pity you can't go round the loop-the-loop.

Was quite impressed with this giant robot snake, until I saw the giant spider robot being driven by a real person.

A time-lapse fly-by video of the earth, made of images from the International Space Station

New "Nobel Prize" for Engineering will be worth a million quid. Where do I sign up? (Or is that not how it works?)

Service

Bikemiles are the new Airmiles. A scheme that rewards you for cycling to work.

Information/Eco

Diarrhoea is the biggest killer of children in Africa? Nice infographics and a new water sanitation campaign here.

Media

Another nice streetview-style viral thing. I thought it was for BMW not Merc so it doesn't work too well, obvs.


Thanks to the PDD DC - Mark H and Ian P - for links.


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