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youhavenoflare: The camera that descrives the pictures with words “The Descriptive Camera works a lot like a regular camera—point it at subject and press the shutter button to capture the scene. However, instead of producing an image, this prototype outputs a text description of the scene. Modern digital cameras capture gobs of parsable metadata about photos such as the camera’s settings, the location of the photo, the date, and time, but they don’t output any information about the content of the photo. The Descriptive Camera only outputs the metadata about the content.”
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Etienne Dupérac’s bird’s-eye plan view of the gardens at Villa d’Este, Tivoli (via via Pruned: Gardens as Crypto-Water Computers)
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MapAttack Turns The City Into A Real-Life Pac-Man Board MapAttack is a (free) real-time location-based smartphone game that turns the city into one big Pac-Man-like gameboard. Perhaps I may be swayed in favour of smartphones by things like this. Perhaps….
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The Dynasphere was a monowheel electric vehicle invented in 1932 by Dr. J. A. Purves from Taunton, Somerset, UK. It had 2.5 horse power and once attained a speed of 25 mph. - Wikipedia via Retronaut
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poptechlabs: Mongolia bids to keep city cool with ‘ice shield’ experiment. Geoengineering trial aims to ‘store’ winter temperatures in a giant block of ice that will cool and water Ulan Bator in summer. The project aims to artificially create “naleds” - ultra-thick slabs of ice that occur naturally in far northern climes when rivers or springs push through cracks in the surface to seep outwards during the day and then add an extra layer of ice during the night. Unlike regular ice formation on lakes - which only gets to a metre in thickness before it insulates the water below - naleds continue expanding for as long as there is enough water pressure to penetrate the surface. Many are more than seven metres thick, which means they melt much later than regular ice.
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youhavenoflare: “A small robotic courtain that tries to protect my privacy by being smart” Click here to watch the video.
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pratt: Lara Knutson: Microscopic glass beads are incorporated into the fabrics which magnify light 100 times so these pieces dramatically change depending on the amount of light in the room
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tkohl: Enigma machine in use. General Guderian in use also.
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jockohomo: Long Exposure Overdose/Multiple Axis Space Test Inertia: “This abstract image is actually a long exposure of Astronaut Gus Grissom sitting within the fearsome ‘MASTIF’ (an acronym for Multiple Axis Space Test Inertia Facility). The g-force throttling, spinning MASTIF is designed to help teach an astronaut how bring a tumbling capsule under control.”
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More than just skylights, they are made out of empty PET soda bottles filled with water and bleach: Isang Litrong Liwanag (A Liter of Light), is a sustainable lighting project which aims to bring the eco-friendly Solar Bottle Bulb to disprivileged communities nationwide. Designed and developed by students from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the Solar Bottle Bulb is based on the principles of Appropriate Technologies – a concept that provides simple and easily replicable technologies that address basic needs in developing communities. (via)
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Evan Roth’s Open Twitter. Check Twitter. Close Twitter. (via)
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