Science Comedian

Toilet of the Future!

January 21st, 2010

If it were bio­log­i­cally nec­es­sary for movie char­ac­ters to go to the bath­room, this would be the toi­let in Blade Run­ner and 2001.  I half-expected the designer to be Syd Mead.

For futur­ists and con­ser­va­tion­ists (and other peo­ple who use toi­lets)!  Sleek, inte­grated design – com­pact enough for an apart­ment in Man­hat­tan or Tokyo.  Plus, it re-uses water from the sink to flush the toi­let!  It’s the all-in-one loo:

The Home Core con­cept inte­grates the toi­let bowl, sink, mir­ror and a van­ity table into one. How­ever, this is not the cen­tral theme for this all-in-one-loo. There is a water stor­age tank right below the sink, where you can choose to store the cur­rently used water or allow it to drain off. (The stored water is meant for flush­ing the pot) Also, the water pres­sure from the tap can be mod­er­ated to four dif­fer­ent lev­els, giv­ing you the sat­is­fac­tion of con­serv­ing some resource.

Designer: Dang Jingwei

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They Might Be Giants Video for Time

January 19th, 2010

Here Comes Sci­ence is sup­pos­edly a kids’ album but it’s my favorite They Might Be Giants album.  I love it.  And I had the oppor­tu­nity to inter­view John and John at their Brook­lyn rehearsal stu­dio, and attend one of their fam­ily shows at the Amer­i­can Museum of Nat­ural His­tory in New York City.  It’s our newest video for Time Magazine:

Link: They Might Be Giants of Science

Is Time Travel Possible?

January 9th, 2010

With so many recent movies and TV shows about time travel – Star Trek, The Time Traveler’s Wife, Lost, Flash­For­ward, Heroes – I thought it might be fun to explore the sci­ence behind this sci­ence fic­tion device.  Our most recent video for Time.com asks, Is Time Travel Possible?…

Rational Comedy at StageWerx

January 8th, 2010

Get your dose of sci­ence com­edy!  I’ll be per­form­ing Ratio­nal Com­edy for an Irra­tional Planet on a bill with one other solo act at StageW­erx the­ater in San Fran­cisco, Jan­u­ary 31.

Tick­ets and more info avail­able now:  http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/94291

Brian Malow – Ratio­nal Com­edy for an Irra­tional Planet

7pm, Jan­u­ary 31, 2010
$10
StageW­erx The­atre
533 Sut­ter (nr. Pow­ell)
San Fran­cisco, CA 94110
http://www.stagewerx.org

Solo Sun­days, S.F.’s pre­mier monthly solo per­for­mance series, presents select sam­plings of vet­eran vir­tu­osos and top emerg­ing tal­ent in the inti­mate StageW­erx the­ater near Union Square.

Helium – So Long and Thanks for all the Balloons!

January 6th, 2010

Some­how this didn’t make it into the blog ear­lier – our Time.com video about helium.  A flight in a zep­pelin, a visit with the Bal­loon Lady, and the end of an era?…

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