Robots in our daily life (pt)

Hi everyone,
every now and then I find myself stuck in the lab in a saturday night so I need a constant reminder of why I'm doing what I'm doing.. of course the answers are very personal but I guess this video will helps you who has a "normal" life understand why research has a lot to do with one's personal goals in life!

http://terratv.terra.com.br/Especiais/Entretenimento/Discovery/4535-227518/Guerra-nas-Estrelas-A-Ciencia-da-Ficcao-Inteligencia-Artificial2.htm

It's in portuguese, sorry :(

R

Serie Must-Do's at Montpellier - 1 - Catamara Course

Last week I took a Catamaran course at the Ecole de Voile at Palavas-Les-Flots with Antonio. I must say that it was one of the coolest things I've ever done here at Montpellier and I totally recomend it to everybody.

We took our 16 m Hobie Cat to the sea the very first day and quickly learned the basis. We were damn lucky: we had the tramontane (north wind) blowing for the whole week! I must say, me and my coequipier Antonio are twice more radical than before this 'cata' course :P

Now we're level two sailers!! :) Hey, I know what u're thinking! At least we're not level 0 as before in Goiania! And we even took the little boat to extremes! We even almost capsized the cata a couple of times!! ROCK AND ROLL!!

Here's a cool video to show all that can be done with the little catamaran we had:

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Video Blog!

Hey! dont forget to check out my Video Blog on Youtube!
www.youtube.com/rogerioar

Tramway

I guess I also have the same addiction as Amelie Poulain.. i dont find weird insolite stuff, they find me!! check out the drunk guy sitting at the bench pulking at the ad for the Tramway!!



Hope he also pulks at Arruda, mayor of Brasilia who wants to copy the tramway tech back home (superfaturadamente, obvio)!! Mardito!!

Noticia do correio

Electrifying Images!

Check out these experiments on a very particular way to find the perfect lighting for your pictures...

Simply amazing!

http://www.wired.com/culture/art/magazine/17-07/pl_art

Road Trip! (Lille)

The 5 hour trip on the TGV wasn't so much fun but we made it to Lille.. we quickly found our cool Ibis hotel and came back to the Gare to pick Antonio up.. when we were about to ask ourselves 'ok, now what?', Dani heard someone speak portuguese and we met some cool Brazilian girls who invited us for some drinks in a pub nearby! We talked a little and people soon found out about my amazing skills in salsa and so we went out dancing to the 'cubanito'..


The Domenican girls danced really well (so well that they had to dance with themselves cause nobody was good enough to dance with them). We ended our soirée around 3AM and made it home in a pleasent spring chill (9°C)


Nxt day we woke up around 11, had a coffee at Paul's and I took a train to Valenciennes to pick up the car with Lucas.. Was glad to see my brother was still alive. Antonio and Dani were xploring Lille but they weren't so sucessfull.. :P

Before ending this post on Lille, I have to say something about the weird oeuvres d'art that were spread in the city center.. The topic of the exposition was: 'Anges et Démons'.. apparently, the baby's body represent the angel and the deformations are the 'démon' within.. odd but cool, like most good things in life =)