Theao Jansen builds artificial creatures, which can move with the wind. He calls his creation “Strandbeest“. Those beests combine an artistic beauty with technological fascination. Despite their size and complex structure, they move with such ease that they appear kinda surreal. Don’t miss the videos on the Sandbeest site. The newest specimen of Sandbeests can […]
You are 17.35 % Mainstream! Crap! Looks like I am less alternative than I thought. 🙂 With the Last.fm-Mainstream-O-Meter, users of Last.fm (see “Discovering Music that You Like“) can see, how much their listening habits overlap with the evil mainstream. You only have to enter your Last.fm username and the webservice calculates – somehow – […]
You never know when the next zombie epidemic will spread, so better be prepared. The first step – besides watching the obligatory documentaries – is to study the tactics of the enemy. Zombie Infection Simulation enables you to watch the undead doing their evil deed without putting yourself in danger. Probably based on extensive scientific […]
Creating hybrids between plants and animal was the task of a contest at Worth1000.com. Of course, the contestants were not supposed to interbreed real animals and plants, but to create deluding images with the help of modern image processing software like Photoshop. The results are beautifully weird, although not all of them are as cruel […]
Once again, science attemts to step forward to fiction. Emotiv Systems wants to create a headset, which lets you control games with your thoughts and emotions.
Steampunk is a genre of speculative fiction which mixes steam engine technology with science fiction. A very (in)famous example of this style is the hollywood movie Wild Wild West. The style is still very popular, and some people spend their free time creating working steampunk gadgets. This keyboard is one specimen of modern technology with […]
Some people use toy robots to play. Others equip them with flame throwers and coilguns. Over at Evosapien, Marcus describes various ways to evolve an roboter called Robosapien V2. One tutorial shows how to equip the robot with a flame thrower. In another article, he arms his Robosapien with a laser sighted coilgun. There are […]
Most of you probably heard of the Gigapxl Project. They produce digital images with a stunning resolution of several thousand Megapixels. The Gigapxl Project uses custom-built large format cameras, a technique quite unavailable for most people. xRez, on the other hand, specialized on producing gigapixel images without special equipment. Instead of taking one gigantic image, […]
According to Fefe, a German blogger, U.S. officials copy hard disks of laptops upon entry. They even insist on the disclosure of passwords so they can decrypt files. Allegedly they even take people into coercive detention to retrieve the passwords. Fefe’s sources are one member of the (German) Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) and […]
Swiss infantry soldiers invaded Liechtenstein.