What were you expecting to find here? Some kind of talkybox?
We Love :
The arrangement and configuration of this passenger’s dormant head results in emission of a pleasurable release of laughter, initiated by the contextual irony implicit in the juxtaposition of said head and the positioning of the advertising material (see diagram) on which it rests.
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Pajda was kind enough to point this out :
It’s some kind of concept - or probably more like prototype - of a pretty neato ’skin’ that organically follows the shape of the car, and even allows for apertures and stuff to open up. It’s a big deal for me to see, because i’ve always been silently puzzled why cars produced today are 99.9% the same - all made of metal using the same processes, and just generally not seeming to justify the $100,000 difference between a hyundai and a porsche. Not that i’ve driven a porsche..
Oh, I thought this youtube comment was pretty good too :
Same deal; sally cooler than me, sally show jeremy YouTube - Worst Fight Scene Ever.
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The Bristlebot is another Evil Mad Scientist creation, though it’s quite cute and non-threatening.
I have one of these motors somewhere - I will try and dig it out! Edit : Found!
Check out the linked page for a video of it in action (and a lot of boring instructions)
This is something that I remember from waaaay back when this were all fields - it’s the biggest subwoofer in the world (?). It’s so Italians can listen to Jazz apparently!
Honestly, have a look at the page - the horn is big enough for some Italians to stand around in, and 16 woofers are required to displace such a huge volume.
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Via MakeZine.
The video I’ve been waiting for since I heard about it two days ago :
It’s filmed with lasers - specifically, LIDAR - a laser scanning system that captures the 3D point data of everything it ’sees’ (including Thom Yorke). This means there are no cameras involved (just a laser, really) and so it’s not actually filmed. It’s all just 3D data. Which means you can do this crazy shit and manipulate the video in real time, moving the camera around and zooming in and out. Like this :
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Gizmodo also posted this video which shows the (sort-of more boring) making of :
Someone was talking animatedly about this - I think it was you, Steph..
Via LaughingSquid of course.
(It’s corn starch, by the way - on a subwoofer. Just thought it was pretty freaky. Via Neatorama.
