Topic: ART - on July 28, 2008 at 4:26:43 PM CEST
Wonderfully Wacky Toy Art
What can you do with those old used up toys that your children used to play with, but are now collecting dust in the corner of your attic? Artist Robert Bradford makes good use of them and creates sculptures out of these toys.
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Topic: FUN - on July 28, 2008 at 4:21:34 PM CEST
Wiremap, a volumetric display
While at The Last HOPE this year, we were fortunate enough to see Wiremap, a volumetric display made from thread. Using a projector and 256 individual strands of cotton thread, [Albert Hwang] produces 3D effects. The result is a visually stunning piece of work.
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Topic: FUN - on July 28, 2008 at 12:31:58 PM CEST
Flowlight Concept Might Be Lacking In Practical Applications, But I Still Want One
I’m sure we’ve all seen those long-exposure photos where someone is writing or drawing in the air with an LED which produces cool looking streaks of light in the final shot. Well that’s basically the same idea behind the Flowlight concept, except that it happens in real time without the need for a camera.
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Topic: Photoshop - on July 28, 2008 at 12:28:52 PM CEST
Detouching
Removing the retouching from airbrushed celebs
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Topic: SCIENCE - on July 28, 2008 at 12:22:57 PM CEST
Silent spring
Deep in the radioactive bowels of the smashed Chernobyl reactor, a strange new lifeform is blooming.
TWENTY-TWO YEARS AGO, on 26 April 1986, reactor No 4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, in Ukraine, blew apart, spewing radioactive dust and debris far and wide.
Ever since, a 30 km 'exclusion zone' has existed around the contaminated site, accessible to those with special clearance only. It's quite easy, then, to conjure an apocalyptic vision of the area; to imagine an eerily deserted wasteland, utterly devoid of life.
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Topic: WEB - on July 28, 2008 at 12:20:41 PM CEST
Ex-Google engineers debut 'Cuil' way to search
Anna Patterson's last Internet search engine was so impressive that industry leader Google Inc. bought the technology in 2004 to upgrade its own system.
She believes her latest invention is even more valuable - only this time it's not for sale.
Patterson instead intends to upstage Google, which she quit in 2006 to develop a more comprehensive and efficient way to scour the Internet.
The end result is Cuil, pronounced "cool." Backed by $33 million in venture capital, the search engine plans to begin processing requests for the first time Monday.
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