Ah, SmartRider - my nemesis. I found this one on the ground and in the spirit of scientific enquiry, cracked that sucker open.

Actually, I plan to try and embed this into a nifty resin bangle - or ring? - and I didn’t really ‘crack’ it open, I used acetone to dissolve the plastic card (and most of the chip too - see last photo).

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Quin sent me a link to Gin’s Myspace Page a few days ago and it was sitting in a firefox tab, having been forgotten. Each time I started firefox, though, this track would play and I couldn’t figure out where it was coming from..

Here is like, a little bit of stolen copy from the MySpastic page.

Gin Wigmore is a distinctive singer/songwriter, whose sound is driven by a startling voice; her delivery succinctly described by a critic as ‘whiskey and dry’ and whose self-penned songs provide a refreshing new take on life as a ’20-something’ and yet relate across the generations.

Geographically, Gin tracks from Auckland to Buenos Aires to Sydney. Vocally she runs from Macy Gray to Blondie to Edith Piaf. Musically she moves between Feist and Broken Social Scene to Neil Young and Fiona Apple, while lyrically she moves from sorrow to sunshine.

Via Quin.

Just watched this on Neatorama, and I have to now say, ha ha ha. Windings!

OK, so I didn’t see it coming this time..

I lol’d.

Same deal; sally cooler than me, sally show jeremy YouTube - Worst Fight Scene Ever.

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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 :

(Click this image!)

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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.

Dancing Liquid

(It’s corn starch, by the way - on a subwoofer. Just thought it was pretty freaky. Via Neatorama.

Magnetic Movie from Semiconductor on Vimeo

Yeah, pretty amazing. Click the ‘expand’ button to watch full-screen (resolution is pretty good)

Via Neatorama..

Dimitri the stud

The youtube description :

Okay guys here is the info on this voicemail. One of my friend’s from work and her friend were out one night in the SF Marina district and were hanging outside of the bars trying to find a cab. One of the girl’s, Olga ends up meeting this guy Dmitri and they talk for at the most 2 minutes. She hands him her business card and says call me.

From Here.

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