Author: Adam

People’s Republic of Maps

Here’s something I never noticed before, via the cool stripped-down Fata Morgana Google Maps. Double-click on United Kingdom to bring Ireland into view. Now double-click on Ireland. What’s the first city in the Republic to appear?

Screw you, Dubs.

Can I have a go?

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, in Tübingen, Germany, transformed an industrial robot arm into a Formula 1 simulator.

Carnivorous Caterpillars

Caterpillars are supposed to be cute and soft! I remember watching them stroll about for hours – ok, I was 10 or so, minutes probably – during lovely summers in Garryvoe. This is just so wrong.

Formula 3000 Hillclimb

A bit like doing the Isle of Man TT. Just the hard bits, in something four times wider than a bike. Terrifying.