17 posts tagged “friendorfaux”
The year was 1960. Joe Kittinger, a US Airforce pilot, rode a balloon to the edge of space and jumped. This extraordinary feat was the highest jump ever and made Kittinger the first person to ever break the sound barrier without a craft of some kind. Some would say it technically makes him the first man in space as well.
Thomas Allen carefully cuts out pulp covers, arranges them into his own "plot lines" and photographs them with a shallow depth of field. This is definitely one of those "wish I had thought of it" ideas. So cool.
More images at the Foley Gallery.
Visit Cabello's site for a wealth of cool actionscript experiments.
Apple still leads the pack in innovation and design. No question. But is Jobs' heart still in the right place? Go back 20 years and you might remember what a camaraderie "everyday people" felt with the brand. Now what have you got? DRM iTunes content and $400 iPhones with exclusive AT&T contracts. Makes me long for the days of "thinking different."
Last year The Bravery and The Killers battled it out for Indie supremacy. The only two songs anyone ever heard on the radio (does anyone listen to the radio anymore?) were Honest Mistake and Somebody Told Me. Over and over... and over again.
So, the follow-ups had to be bad ass. Now that both bands have thrown their hats in, the winner is... The Bravery, with The Sun and the Moon.
Read my full review here.
Remember this article when the robot armies finally torch through the last layer of steel in our underground strongholds. Read on to scare yourself shitless.
"The results...set the stage for the creation of a
neuromemory chip that could be paired with computer hardware to create
cyborglike machines capable of such tasks as detecting dangerous toxins
in the air, allowing the blind to see or helping someone who is
paralyzed regain some if not all muscle use."
-Scientific American
You may have heard some buzz about Photosynth in the past year, but this video showcases a polished (market-ready?) version. This is one of those tools that gives me hope that technology isn't all about mindless diversion, but that great strides are being made to broaden the learning potential of humankind. Really amazing.
Agreed, this contraption is ungainly as hell, but if you give all the hardware about three years to shrink down, this might become a pretty svelt design. Still, the cool thing about this is not what it is now, but what it eludes to for the future. For instance, the interface is pretty kick ass (swivel the umbrella to scroll through a live Flickr feed? Navigate Google Earth? Cool).
I don't see an abundance of Internet-ready umbrellas in our future, that is until the technology becomes so commonplace (i.e. innexpensive) that you don't mind accidentally leaving it on the subway. BUT, I can see a ton of other uses for this kind of technology. What's your take on it?
It's a bit of a brain melt to consider that this machine may be able to recreate the conditions under which the universe, as we understand it, began.
In the coming months (June 2007) the most complex scientific instrument ever built will be switched on. The Large Hadron Collider
promises to recreate the conditions right after the Big Bang. By
revisiting the beginning of time, scientists hope to unravel some of
the deepest secrets of our Universe.
Within these first few moments the building blocks of the Universe were created. The search for these fundamental particles has occupied scientists for decades but there remains one particle that has stubbornly refused to appear in any experiment. The Higgs Boson is so crucial to our understanding of the Universe that it has been dubbed the God particle. It explains how fundamental particles acquire mass, or as one scientist plainly states: “It is what makes stuff stuff…'
-BBC News
Anyone else afraid this thing might rip a giant hole in reality and suck us all into oblivion?
Design (industrial, graphic, and otherwise) is featured on one of the most interesting sites out there. Check out this rotating "windscraper." More after the link.
