Freaky 43-Foot Mechanical Spider Dances in France

By Alyssa Danigelis, Seeker.com, August 8, 2016  A wonderfully terrifying human-operated arachnid weighs 38 tons and can even spit “venom” at crowds. Meet Kumo, a human-controlled mechanical beast made from wood and steel created by the French street theater company La Machine. A team of more than a dozen people is required to work the 38-ton… Continue reading Freaky 43-Foot Mechanical Spider Dances in France

If virtual reality fails, blame spiders

By Adi Robertson, TheVerge.com, July 29, 2016  Please share my nightmare When historians look back decades from now, they may wonder what killed virtual reality in the ‘10s. The technology was finally cheap and sophisticated. Billions of dollars were poured into funding hardware and software. Even skeptics were slowly being won over. But then they… Continue reading If virtual reality fails, blame spiders