The Infinity Aquarium provides an eye-soothing experience for your fish and yourself with its visually appealing aquarium that’s also a materpiece work of an art in itself.

May we suggest you get one?  Just don’t try to fit large fish like Sharks.

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Now here’s an intelligent robot that won’t crush your hand as it detects before grabbing stuff.

A robotic hand designed by Intel researchers is able to sense the general shape of objects before interacting with them.

The tips of its fingers send out a weak electrical impulse that objects interfere with, giving the hand a rough idea of what it’s about to grasp. Using electrolocation, as it’s known, is common in fish, particularly sharks, which detect electric fields better than any other animal.

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Here’s a robot fish fromUniversity of Washington that might just change the way environmental scientists collect data from the sea.

Over the past five years Kristi Morgansen, a University of Washington assistant professor of aeronautics and astronautics, has built three Robofish that communicate with one another underwater. Recently at the International Federation of Automatic Control’s Workshop on Navigation, Guidance and Control of Underwater Vehicles she presented results showing that the robots had successfully completed their first major test. The robots were programmed to either all swim in one direction or all swim in different directions, basic tasks that can provide the building blocks for coordinated group movement.

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As I promised, I did go to the beach earlier. The one great thing about the beach is that you can see the never-ending ocean.

What does that do for you?

Well, basically, you look at the ocean and forget everything and feel relaxed. Whenever I feel stressed out from work or whatever, I always go to the beach.

This time, I was just taking the dog out for a stroll, he loves me so much. I guess dogs are better than humans in some repects.

The funny thing was, I guess there are sections on the beach where you must have your dog leashed to protect Snow-Plowing birds. Which was fine except 3 Park rangers came to me and try to give me a ticket. Well, I got off with a warning and now I am officially in the San Francisco Park Ranger’s database. (well, that’s what they told me)

We did, afterwards, go to the correct section where dogs can be unleashed and had a blast running around and chasing other dogs.

Ocean Beach in San Francisco is not so great during winter but at least you get to see the Pacific Ocean. I prefer it over any other oceans as you get that “endless” view and there’s lots of sharks. (I’ve actually caught a tiger shark once while fishing for crabs. The shark got stuck on my crab net and other fishermen helped me get the shark. Of course I let it go but if I catch that thing again, I am going to either put it in my bedroom or eat it. Shark fins are suppose to be really good for your health in Asian beliefs…lol)

On our way back, we found this Starfish Christmas Tree!!! (take a look at my previous post on sfblogg about finding this…)

It seems like some locals have used it for bonfires, better than throwing it on the street like some people do. Even better, I believe they should ban “natural” Christmas trees all together and only sell plastic Christmas trees. This would save so millions of trees every year, I don’t get why we still use “real” Christmas trees. That’s probably one thing hurting Earth that we can help simply by swallowing our egos. That’s why my Christmas tree this year is small and plastic. Then again, plastic isn’t good either huh?

Check out this cool DIY on making a submersible shark camera! I’ve never gone shark fishing, well I don’t fish anything I can’t eat and big sharks don’t look like they would taste good. (But I like Tuna and all the other cool edible fish in the big ocean…)  Here’s a cool cheap way to make a submersible cam also…

Last year while shark fishing off the Dumbarton Pier and recording the catch on a 20 year old VHS camera I had an idea. I thought of how cool it would be to jam a camera in the mouth of a big shark and let him swim away so then you could see what he was up to when he opened his mouth since sharks are coolest when they’re biting through stuff. Images flashed through my mind like: giant teeth surrounding the perimeter of the video while the shark opens his mouth and engulfs a cell phone or a car tire (it is the san francisco bay after all). Judging by the expression on Gillian’s face as I described my vision, I realized the idea had limitations. So I decided to do the next best thing: make a submersible camera with shark bait all over it, dunk it in the sea and wait for something cool to happen. PUT SKETCH HERE

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