the v motion project
but, what if the DJ can’t dance? new zealand creators at assembly ltd harnessed kinect technology, allowing human motion to generate both music and an impressive light show. it’s called ‘the v motion...
View Article1Gbps connection?
google fiber and google fiber tv promise 100x the connection speeds we’re used to. plus, a smorgasbord of programming ranging from big network to youtube indies. in a test run in kansas city, the...
View Articlethe 1% unveiled
who ARE the 1%? this study by project censored divides the 1% into extractors, investors, and corporate elites and analyzes the interconnections via transnational board participation. it’s a bit of a...
View Articlewater on and off
superhydrophobic droplet logic sounds like the name of an eerie trance music album, but it’s actually a working computing environment based on water droplets. accomplished by finnish researchers at...
View Articlefrom macro to micro, van gogh-style
van gogh’s starry night reproduced using hubble telescope images? why not? the more we learn of the cosmos, the more the macro seems to reflect the micro. 20 years worth of images arranged just so....
View Articlehardwired political leanings
ever wondered whether those who vote left or right are hardwired for their stance? the smithsonian explores the issue, highlighting several studies. the upshot? while researchers argue about exact...
View Articlefacts about memory
if the human brain were a hard drive, it could boast up to 2.5 million gigabytes of storage. short-term memory holds up to 7 pieces of information for about 20 seconds. most memories are from when we...
View Articlemultiverse or bust
the more we learn about the makeup of our universe, and the infinite number of other theoretical universes that may or may not exist, the more difficult it is for our linear minds to comprehend. that...
View Articleback up an humming
a couple of days ago, the harwell dekatron computer was rebooted. this is significant because the 2.75 ton contraption is more than 60 years old. paper tape input. 828 vacuum tubes serving up volatile...
View Articlego curiosity, go
it’s easy to feel kindly toward the mars curiosity rover. such an impossible feat to have not only sent her to mars, but for her to so faithfully have sent back all those images and intel. in this 5min...
View Articlesky ornaments
like a giant ornament in the sky, our earth glistens and gleams in these cloud-free, nighttime photos captured by a NASA/NOAA satellite equipped with new visible-infrared sensors that detect and...
View Articleonline life recorded
obsessive can be fun! marcin ignac not only recorded every moment of his computer usage over the last 2.5 years, he created this stunning set of visualizations, each color representing the foreground...
View Articlewebseries budget demystified
how much does a webseries actually cost? freddie wong discloses exact budget numbers for ‘video game high school.’ total # views to date: 36+ million. total budget: $636.010.71. all without the...
View Articlehiggs boson demystified
this is the best explanation of the higgs boson i’ve yet come across. it’s a 50min talk by cal tech physicist sean carroll at skepticon5. i put it on in the background but found myself rapt. not just...
View Article1gb/sec in every state
1 gigabit/sec broadband in every state by 2015? mandated by the fcc? yes! well, at least as mandated as zero funding can muster. but still, the commission announced the goal in a conference call with...
View Articlemanuscripts saved!
72-yr-old abba alhadi is a hero. an illiterate caretaker of ancient manuscripts in the beleaguered city of timbuktu, mali, he managed to secretly transport nearly 30k texts dating back to the 13th...
View Articletesting, testing . . .
this is just so damn beautiful. and geeky. and a tiny bit scary. the anonymous creator of botnet ‘carna’ let a bit of code loose that scanned every computer on the internet, pinging IPV4 systems with...
View Articleoscillate
daniel sierra’s 4min thesis animation ‘oscillate‘ is wondrous. undulating meditations on sine waves rendered in luminous hues. i could watch it over and over. i just might.
View Articlereality mimicking abstraction
you know those drawings of benzene rings and the like that describe carbon atoms and the bonds connecting them? those shapes aren’t mere abstractions. when viewed through an atomic force microscope, it...
View Articlespeed of light, almost
ever wonder what reality looks like when traveling close to the speed of light? MIT’s openRelativity engine is an open-source toolkit for games that’s modeled on einstein’s special theory of...
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