Post-it dance
(Friday, March 19th, 2010)
Have you seen a nicer use of Post-It Notes? The deadline is coming.
YouTube link
I did not think so. This was probably quite a job to build, but it’s so nice.
(Friday, March 19th, 2010)
Have you seen a nicer use of Post-It Notes? The deadline is coming.
I did not think so. This was probably quite a job to build, but it’s so nice.
(Sunday, March 14th, 2010)
The fashion of drawing fractals is a memory of the past (it was probably linked to the first appearance of computers able to collate the computing power for the needed calculations and the display capacity for complex images). But the pleasure is all mine to find this HD video which sends us into a Mandelbrot set, this fractal structure (which seems to never change whatever the observation scale – a little like the ever finely cut coast of Brittany).
So, here are 10 minutes of total fractal travel:
Mandelbrot Fractal Set Trip To e214 HD from teamfresh on Vimeo.
The zoom is so intense that the original fractal is larger than the known universe, but the last image gives details smaller than the smaller of nuclear physics particle.
Astonishing mathematics via Boing Boing.
(Sunday, February 28th, 2010)
(Saturday, February 13th, 2010)
The TED Talk conferences are often a great moment of technologie accessible to the largest numbers and an opportunity for the démonstration of what could be our future if the great thinkers of our time work on it.
The following conference (from Pranav Mistry) wants to give us a rought idea of perspectives opened by a rather recent technologie named SixthSense willing to put computers in our world rather than forcing us to flow in the computers mould.
It gets real speed and starts getting exhilarating after 6 or 7 minutes. Be patient, it’s worth it.
Thanks Xtian.
(Wednesday, January 20th, 2010)
A great classic piece of music from Rossini, Duetto buffo di due gatti is interpreted here by two young singers whose countenance is all the more appreciated for their honorable clothes and the Korean public that appreciated a lot the unexpected performance.
(Wednesday, January 13th, 2010)
An enormous aquarium in Japan (Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium).
Think about it: Some divers dream of meeting a Whale Sharks. Here, you can meet four of them!
(Sunday, January 3rd, 2010)
It looks a little like advertising a DVD, but I had some real fun listening to these:
Go to the web site for more: Old jews telling jokes.
(Thursday, December 31st, 2009)
(Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009)
Yes! This cat is driving a Roomba.
(Saturday, December 12th, 2009)
Sharks are amazing killing machines, very efficient predators of the seas. But they are not only that. They also have some behaviors that could be described as interesting, astonishing, amazing, curious or mind-boggling (depending on your state of mind and what you think about the interaction between sharks and divers).
May I parallel this video with a previous post where I was showing the photo of a Japanese diver putting identification marks on a giant jellyfish?
(Saturday, November 21st, 2009)
So, scuba divers, did you dive on a stingray as beautiful as this one already?
(Saturday, November 14th, 2009)
Darwin did not see this. Darwin was too shy when he published his major work “the origin of species” on November 24, 1859. The evolution is also for machines and technology and the struggle for life has a meaning.
The evolution of technology, beginning in the early stone age and evolving to the most powerfull technology of all times.
Client: SATURN
Advertising Agency: Scholz&Friends, Berlin, Germany (www.s-f.com)
(Wednesday, October 21st, 2009)
Magnetic levitation is considered by some as the future of train technology. Several real trains have actually been created (the German industry has been a pioneer and is in a strong competition with Japan for the development of such MagLev trains or Magnetic Levitation trains). But did you really see how it works? It’s easy. Check this demonstration with maglev toy trains.
The tracks are made of traditional magnets and the train contain a big super-conducting magnet (cooled down by liquid nitrogen to maintain its super-conducting characteristics). Everything is relying heavily on magnetic fields. So, not surprisingly, these fields can be observed in the real train. The following video — shot on the Rokko Liner in Kobe, Japan — shows metal paper clips dancing on the stray magnetic fields of such a Maglev train, going through the floor of one of the passenger cars.
Don’t drop your credit card (or an age-old floppy disk) on the floor for fear of seeing it quickly erased.
(Sunday, October 18th, 2009)
See what happens to video game players, when a real World Rally Championship (WRC) pilot takes them to the real dirt. “Are you ready for the real thing?” Ken Block is not only a good driver, he’s trying his best to have them p…ing their pants.
Source: Autoblog.
(Monday, October 12th, 2009)
Even the local guy does not seem too sure about it!
I’m not prone to vertigo, but I would not try it. I am happy being currently in Nepal and not in Pakistan. Wait! Here is a bridge in Nepal:
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