Gallery: Robots, Sharks and Tesla Coils: 2010's Best Wired.com Videos

  • Giant Robot Arm Creates Halo Reach Light Sculpture
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    The Wired.com video team shot lots of video in 2010. We covered everything from CES to Comic Con to the Maker Faire, how sharks are disappearing from our oceans, how one man spent 30 years creating a model of San Francisco from toothpicks, and how engineers are retrofitting the Bay Bridge for earthquakes. There were lots of great stories, innovative technology and interesting people. In case you missed them the first time, here's some of the best video. __Above:__ Giant Robot Arm Creates *Halo: Reach* Light Sculpture ----------------------------------------------------- A web interface will let gamers manipulate a Kuka industrial robot to create a virtual monument to Spartan warriors in the run-up to *Halo: Reach*.
  • CES 2010 HandsOn With Transparent Display of the Future
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    CES 2010: Hands-On With Transparent Display of the Future --------------------------------------------------------- Science fiction becomes reality at the Consumer Electronics Show, with this transparent OLED-display prototype from Samsung.
  • Inside the New QuakeResistant San Francisco Bay Bridge
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    Inside the New Quake-Resistant San Francisco Bay Bridge ------------------------------------------------------- The new San Francisco Bay Bridge, currently under construction, will be the largest self-anchored suspension bridge in the world, and will incorporate earthquake-resistant technologies.
  • Lockheed Shows off HULC Exoskeleton
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    Lockheed Shows off HULC Exoskeleton ----------------------------------- Danger Room checks out Lockheed Martin's HULC Exoskeleton, a wearable machine designed to help soldiers carry and move heavy loads.
  • TeslaPowered Band Electrifies Maker Faire
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    Tesla-Powered Band Electrifies Maker Faire ------------------------------------------ Wired.com checks out ArcAttack's musical Tesla-coil performance at Maker Faire 2010.
  • Hung Star Hates Shoes Loves Vibrams FiveFingers
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    *Hung* Star Hates Shoes, Loves Vibrams FiveFingers -------------------------------------------------- *Hung* star Thomas Jane hates wearing shoes, and has been heckled by the tabloid press for going barefoot to premieres. Now he's discovered Vibram FiveFingers and wears them everywhere.
  • Disneyland Day One Fake Tickets and Scorching Heat
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    Disneyland Day One: Fake Tickets and Scorching Heat --------------------------------------------------- The Magic Kingdom wasn't always as perfectly run as it is today. In fact, some thought it would fail. Built in a year and a day, Disneyland wasn't quite ready on July 17, 1955, which insiders called "Black Sunday."
  • Toothpick Artist ReCreates San Francisco
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    Toothpick Artist Re-Creates San Francisco ----------------------------------------- Northern Californian Scott Weaver toiled for 3,000 hours and brandished some 100,000 toothpicks to build a 9-foot-tall, 20-pound simulacrum of San Francisco. Ouch!
  • God of War III Assembling the Score
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    *God of War III*: Assembling the Score -------------------------------------- Recorded at Skywalker Sound and — remotely — in Prague, the *God of War III* videogame score is one of Sony's biggest productions. Watch how it was pieced together.
  • Over 73 Million Sharks Killed Every Year for Fins
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    Over 73 Million Sharks Killed Every Year for Fins ------------------------------------------------- Scientists are alarmed at the rate sharks are disappearing from the oceans. Some estimate that 90 percent of the largest sharks have been wiped out. The lack of these apex predators is altering the ocean's ecoscape.
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Sunrise Alarm Clocks to Help You Adjust to Shorter Days
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White Dwarfs Aren’t Just White. Scientists Discover Dying Stars Turning Pink and Green
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