I’ve been reading Midnight’s Children (really a must read if you’re interested in a telepathic super-nose based protagonists and the history (sometimes alternate history) of the birth of India and Pakistan) and there is this mention of tetrapods…. but what are tetrapods?
http://www.pinktentacle.com/2008/08/photos-tetrapod-beaches-of-japan/
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2. Windshape, sheer architecture that moves with the wind…
http://www.archdaily.com/4608/windshape-narchitects/
2. Infoporn of the week:
A 14 year old snuck into John Lennon’s hotel suite back in the 60s and interviewed him. Watch this wonderful animation (nominated for an oscar in 2008) of the interview…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmR0V6s3NKk
3. Spacetime fusion… (bad video plus a few good photos equals crazy video enhancement capabilities)
http://grail.cs.washington.edu/projects/videoenhancement/videoEnhancement.htm
4. Meta Material Alert: Stretchable circuit substrate (stretch by 70%!)…
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/1160309v1
5. This is what it feels like sometimes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNZq0uMvNXo
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Sharpie is the new black…
http://www.flickr.com/photos/vodcars/sets/72157603104900070/
Frozen sounds…
http://www.neublack.com/art-design/frozen-sound-art-exhibition/
Making a 3d film, on the cheap.
http://www.hulger.org/making-3d-videos/
Pig?
http://theseflocks.com/main.html
I just like these dishes… (the other ones in the setcast series are nice too)…
http://www.voon-benson.com/html/molecule.htm
Its like sand at the beach only ten million times more expensive!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpRE6CM3oOY
Product space…
http://www.chidalgo.com/productspace/
Why is it that the future always involves a briefcase?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nv6X-02xlKg
House of the week… emergency box of house
http://www.sago-g.co.jp/kasetu/index.html
Or this one maybe…
http://www.baumraum.de/index.php?pid=0&articleID=507
Bikeology
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8867862777896510907
map of the day…
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/map/map-day/index
Silhouettes
http://www.makemakemake.org/index.php?/project/silhouettes/
The idea sounded maybe better than the execution but you have to give them credit for the effort…
http://www.videolog.tv/video?358402
Touchsight. Camera for the vision impaired (really great idea… though I’m sure not new it seems like it’d be worth experiencing even if not blind… over time it would become a useful sense in itself)
http://www.idsa.org/IDEA_Awards/gallery/2008/award_details.asp?ID=774