Tue. 07/26 - The Best Failed Inventions

<p><strong><em>Let’s take a visit to the Museum of Failure. Plus, robot spider zombies. Not a new comic book series, but an actual experiment from mechanical engineers in Texas. And the Earth’s earliest animal predator has been named after David Attenborough.</em></strong></p><p>Sponsors:</p><ul><li>Indeed, Get a free $75 credit PLUS earn up to $500 extra in sponsored job credits with Indeed’s Virtual Interviews at <a href="http://indeed.com/goodnews" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Indeed.com/goodnews</a></li><li>Kolide, Got Slack? Got Macs? Get Kolide: Device security that fixes challenging problems by messaging your users on Slack. Try Kolide Today! <a href="https://l.kolide.co/3aVdR90" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://l.kolide.co/3aVdR90 </a></li></ul><p>Links:</p><ul><li><a href="https://twitter.com/TrungTPhan/status/1550134569059266566?s=20&amp;t=aQ2m-0a8_9DPZFF2umncqA" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Museum of Failure thread</a> (Trung Phan, Twitter)</li><li><a href="https://museumoffailure.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Museum of Failure</a> </li><li><a href="https://www.sciencealert.com/necrobotics-the-creepy-field-of-science-that-is-using-dead-spiders-as-robots" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Scientists Are Turning Dead Spiders Into 'Necrobots' And We Are So Creeped Out</a> (ScienceAlert)</li><li><a href="https://phys.org/news/2022-07-necrobotic-spiders-dead-legs-puff.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">'Necrobotic' spiders: Manipulating dead spiders' legs with a puff of air to serve as grabbers</a> (Phys.org)</li><li><a href="https://www.cnet.com/science/biology/researchers-turn-dead-spiders-into-necrobotic-grippers/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Researchers Turn Dead Spiders Into 'Necrobotic' Grippers</a> (CNET)</li><li><a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/earliest-animal-predator-named-david-attenborough-rcna40002" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">‘Earliest animal predator’ nam