RHex the Parkour Robot Is Cooler Than Parkour Humans
July 25, 2013 | Andy Cush
RHex, a small, six-legged robot, is designed to navigate tough terrain, with springy limbs, relatively high speed, and the ability to move even after its been flipped upside-down. According to Boston Dynamics, creators of one of several RHex types, the bot “climbs in rock fields, mud, sand, vegetation, railroad tracks, telephone poles and up slopes and stairways.”
A group of Parkour "traceurs" in Cambridge made this video to show "some clean movement at a few of the choice spots in the city." Watch above as Ampisound team member James Kingston leaps from building to building at quite the dizzying pace as if it's you. The filming is reminiscent of Mirror's Edge, a…
Justin Casquejo, a 16-year-old from Weehawken, NJ, made his way to the top of 1 World Trade Center at 4AM Sunday, sneaking past several security guards. To get to the 104th floor, Casquejo simply took the elevator -- according to the Post, the operator let him up despite his lack of ID.…
And now, please enjoy this new music video for "Bad Motherfuckers" by Biting Elbows, directed by Russian filmmakers Ilya Naishuller and Sergey Valyaev. It's POV. It's crazy. Or, you are opposed to super crazy video-game style but IRL-looking violence, throat gutting and various other bang-bang-bang related injuries because you're not desensitized by…
