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Automatically Self-Righting

By The Daily Dish

Dec 10 2007, 5:38 AM ET

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That's the Gomboc, featured in the NYT Mag's Year In Ideas issue here. It has no internal "weeble" balancer. It just rights itself after a while. The design came out of math, but it also turned out like something quite familiar: the tortoise. Riveting Hungarian video here. (Hat tip: Kottke.)



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