octopus

January 26, 2017

World’s Most Successful Octopus-Related Kickstarter

Peter Paltridge brian kesenger, crowdfunding, Kickstarter, octopus, tabletop games, Tabletop Gaming 0

Brian Kesenger is an accomplished artist who has worked at Pixar for the past 20 years. But he’s been quite successful in his side endeavors as well, publishing a series of hit picture books about a Victorian woman and her “land octopus.” Now the octopus in question is the star of his own card game currently being funded on Kickstarter.

May 16, 2014

Why Doesn’t An Octopus Get Stuck To Itself? Scientists Find an Answer

Shawn Hopkins octopus, robotics 0

A octopus is a complicated beast. All of those legs going everywhere, covered in suckers, it seems likely that they’d eventually get tangled up and stuck together like the cords behind your TV. It seems even more likely when you realize that for the most part octopus legs don’t even bother to check in with octopus’s brain before acting.