Technology is a wonderful and exciting thing. Take a look at this that I recently got from an e mail:
Who but students would have the determination to create such a thing? This is almost unbelievable. See how all of the balls wind up in catcher cones. This incredible machine was built as a collaborative effort between the Robert M. Trammell Music Conservatory and the Sharon Wick School of Engineering at the University of Iowa. Amazingly, 97% of the machine components came from John Deere Industries and Irrigation Equipment of Bancroft, Iowa ....yes, farm equipment! It took the team a combined 13,029 hours of set-up, alignment, calibration, and
tuning before filming this video but as you can see it was well worth the
effort. It is now on display in the Matthew Gerhard Alumni Hall at the
University and is already slated to be donated to the Smithsonian!
video .
I am somewhat of a scaptical person so I decided to check out snopes to see if it was for real. Guess what? It was not. But what an awesome use of technology and computer animation.
It pays to not take everything that is presented as "real" on the internet with a bit of wonder! I like to double check the information and enjoy it for its value!
1 comment:
Yes, there are a lot of great things about the Internet and technology, but I find it disappointing that there is so much mis-information, too. It's a shame that people choose to post information that is untrue. I wonder ... why? What do they gain from that?
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