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Ferrofluid Sculpture

February 4th, 2012 at 1:04 pm » Comments (0)

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I just learned about Ferrofluid today. It can do some amazing things, like this video shows. After the jump is a second video explaining HOW ferrofluid works.
From the YouTube descriptioin:
A steel sculpture with changing magnetisation is coated with ferrofluid.
The fluid is pulled in the direction of increasing flux density and forms peaks, which become smaller [...]



Unplayable piece used to test player pianos

February 4th, 2012 at 12:30 pm » Comments (0)

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It’s called “Circus Galop” or “Death Waltz”, and it’s used to test the performance of player pianos. No single person has ever played it…so far. But if we can put a man on the moon, surely we can genetically engineer a superhuman species that can perform it…



Numbers as letters

February 3rd, 2012 at 12:34 pm » Comments (0)

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Leet in action.
You are most likely familiar with numbers being used to implicate letters, phrases or even symbols. In SMS (txting) shortcuts, for instance, 2 can also be used for “to”, 4 can mean “for” and the 8 spells “eat” in gr8, meaning great. This is called SMSish or textese or simply SMS language.
When numbers [...]



Congress and the EU are fighting to change Google’s privacy policy

February 3rd, 2012 at 12:04 pm » Comments (0)

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Are you ready for Google’s new privacy policy?
Google’s new privacy policy has already caused a stir among users. Now, Congress and EU regulators are sniffing around the changes and aren’t happy about them — but Google doesn’t seem to care in the slightest.
According to The Hill, house lawmakers questioned Google representatives for two hours yesterday [...]



iVictrola gramophone printed on a 3D printer magnifies your music

February 2nd, 2012 at 10:05 pm » Comments (0)

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Big sound using age old principles.
I know I’ve been all about the old-fashioned-looking iPhone speakers lately, most of which are electricity-free. And 3D printing. So I’m jazzed the two have come together with this 3D printed iVictrola Gramophone dreamed up by Schreer Design and manufactured by Shapeways.
Check. It. Out. (video after jump…)



Leaves made from human hair

February 2nd, 2012 at 12:30 am » Comments (0)

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Reality is a delicate art.
Jenine Shereos’s delicate leaf sculptures look like the real thing from a distance, but they’re actually made of hair. She made them by stitching the hairs together on a backing, then dissolving that backing in water…



Fibonacci Numbers, Lucas Numbers, and the way plants grow

January 28th, 2012 at 5:08 pm » Comments (0)

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The highly entertaining Vi Hart is back with another episode of Doodling in Math Class. Her videos are fun to watch, clear and easy to understand, and express the joy of scientific discovery:



It’s the year of social media for Super Bowl ads

January 27th, 2012 at 12:43 pm » Comments (0)

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Advertisers are falling over themselves to get their ads out on YouTube or as part of online contests, like Volkswagen has done this year.
A big social event every year is the Super Bowl.  During this year’s battle pitting the New York Giants against the New England Patriots, getting social will happen on screens and the [...]



LapGuard offers radiation shielding technology

January 26th, 2012 at 3:47 pm » Comments (0)

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Prevent leg burn and radiation damage with LapGuard.
By Deb Frey

I met the team from Digital Innovations at CES2012 in Las Vegas this year. The LapGuard With Radiation Shielding is a great device. What I like about their products is the simplicity of use. I have a tendency to work with my laptop on [...]



Evaporative snowfalls

January 26th, 2012 at 10:16 am » Comments (0)

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Localized snowfall.

If your choices were fog, foam or snow, wouldn’t snow be a welcome change from the others?
In the early 1990’s, Francisco Guerra started making snow for his magic act. Within a few years, special events, movies, and theme parks wanted to use this unique effect to create magical snowfall.
What is amazing about this effect [...]



Modified turntable reads tree-rings as music

January 26th, 2012 at 9:58 am » Comments (0)

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Now you can listen to trees literally.
Aside from the gentle rustling of leaves in the breeze, or the creaking of a bough in a winter gale, a tree’s character may best be described as ‘the strong and silent type’ — but, as so often is the case with such personalities, they just might have the [...]



Denver filmmaker to debut documentary on psychic octopus

January 24th, 2012 at 10:23 am » Comments (0)

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Psychic Octopus Paul in the spotlight once again.
An octopus housed in a German aquarium, Paul rose to worldwide fame when he managed to accurately predict each of the winners in the 2010 FIFA World Cup, soccer’s premier event. He went on to predict — again, accurately — the winner of the final.
Paul retired from predictions [...]



A 3D printer that works with chocolate?

January 22nd, 2012 at 3:25 pm » Comments (0)

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Why make your food when you can print it?
Futurist Thomas Frey talked about 3D food printers HERE and now we have a production model that can print with chocolate (and more). How awesome is that!
From Gizmodo:
Instead of the toxic smell of melted plastics, while the Imagine 3D printer is doing its thing, your workspace will [...]



Lifebook design combines all your gadgets into one modular laptop

January 22nd, 2012 at 3:14 am » Comments (0)

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Lifebook makes your tech life more modular.
Designer Prashant Chandra, an industrial designer from New Delhi, India, had come up with a solution for combining a whole lot of independent gadgets. Instead of repeating hardware — such as with an iPad acting as a larger version of an iPhone, an iPod acting like a lost part [...]



Multitouch Domes are a great way to display maps

January 19th, 2012 at 10:20 pm » Comments (0)

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DISPLAX Multitouch Globe from DISPLAX™ Interactive Systems on Vimeo.

The demo kind of falls apart when they start poking around Windows, but Displax’s new 40-inch diameter Multitouch Globe looks like an absolute joy when it comes to navigating interactive maps. It’s just too bad it’s a bit impractical…



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