One of the most beautiful time-lapse video I’ve seen in a while, and I watch many of those on a weekly basis!
This is some of the timelapses I shot in Iceland in september of 2013.
Over three weeks we drove nearly 5500km taking more than 40000 photos on the way.
Shot with Nikon cameras and lenses. Post-processed with LRTimelapse, Adobe Lightroom and Adobe After Effects. Motion control sequences done with a Stage One dolly from Dynamic Perception and a Celestron Skywatcher pan/tilt head.
Edit: And here’s another one which is just as stunning.
Magnets are amazingly strong… but there’s a very easy way to destroy them. All you need to know is a little bit about ferromagnetism, paramagnetism, and temperature!
This amazing queen-sized “Picard” quild was made as a wedding present for two friends by the blogger over at Candy Coated Quilts. Looks really nice, doesn’t it? A perfect wedding gift for Star Trek fans!
A robotic prosthetic hand that costs just 1% of what is currently available on the market? A noble goal indeed.
The Open Hand Project aims to make advanced prosthetic hands more accessible to amputees. The Dextrus hand is the realization of this goal, it’s a low-cost robotic hand that offers much of the functionality of a human hand. Ultimately, these hands will be sold for under $1000 (£630).
The Open Hand Project is open-source, which means all of the plans to make a robotic hand will be published online with no patents, anyone has the right to make their own and even sell it themselves. You’re funding the full development of the hand with the Open Hand Project, after that companies will be able to use the designs and sell the hands all over the world. This really helps get these devices out to developing countries and places where import taxes might otherwise increase the cost of distribution.
Facebook has made a deal with Cisco to roll out a program that gives store, hotel and restaurant customers free Wi-Fi access in return for “checking in” on Facebook.
The idea has already been tested in a small number of locations and will now be made available to all businesses. Facebook itself won’t be putting any money into the project or providing any equipment.
However, it will pass on anonymized demographic data about the customers checking in and allow the businesses to offer special deals to Facebook users. One big problem there is is that the demographic data isn’t simply a guide to the type of people visiting a business, but rather only covers the type of people who want to use Wi-Fi, are on Facebook, and are prepared to check in, which may be a very different demographic to the average user.
The business will of course also get the benefit — whatever it’s worth — of the customer’s Facebook friends reading the riveting news of the check-in. In turn, Facebook hopes that businesses having more details about their Facebook-using customers will encourage them to pay for targeted ads.
To use the system, a business must buy a Cisco router with the relevant tech built-in. If a customer checks in, they’ll get access straight away. However, the business has the option to also make Wi-Fi available to non-Facebook users who type in a passcode provided by the business, for example after making a purchase in a coffee shop.
Facebook insists that once the customer’s Facebook details are checked for the log-in, it has no access whatsoever to the customer’s Wi-Fi connection or their browsing activity.
The perfect ring to have if you want to propose to the Pokémon-obsessed lady of your life. Unfortunately, the design is just a concept for now, but the company behind it has plenty of other geektastic jewelry for you to choose from.
