Before hitting that play button, be sure to put the video in full screen mode for the best effect.
Warning: this video has actually made me a little dizzy, so if you’re the kind of person who suffers from motion sickness, you may want to skip this one, or at least view it in regular mode instead of in full screen.
Built high above the Abu Dhabi F1 track, Formula Rossa aims to accurately recreate the sensation of driving an F1 car. Believe it or not, at launch, this thing goes up to 150 miles per hour in just 4.9 seconds.
To celebrate his legacy at the 76th anniversary of his birth (November 9, 1934), and to increase public involvement in the excitement of astronomy and space exploration, a local coalition of science and reason-based organizations announces the SECOND ANNUAL CARL SAGAN DAY, NOV. 6 2010.
This is one of the most brilliant idea, ever! Apart from looking totally amazing, this clever t-shirt actually has a real spy camera hidden inside it. Check it out:
Here is the official trailer for Beyond Black Mesa – a short independent fan film Inspired by the Half-Life universe. Total budget of the project: $1,200. Check it out:
The film has already been presented at the Sidewalk Film Festival back in September, but unfortunately, there’s no word out yet on when it will be released to the general public.
“Geosocial” services such as Foursquare may get a lot of buzz, but they aren’t getting a lot of use. A new study finds that on an average day, only one in a hundred internet users access such a service.
The headline figure from the survey is that 7% of people who regularly use their cellphone to access online services are users of location-based services. That’s 4% of all adults with some form of internet access.
If you assume the main users are young men, you’d be right, but only just. The figures are 6% for men and 3% for women. There’s no explanation of why, though I suspect the competition element of features such as the Foursquare “mayorship” might be more appealing to men. But when it comes to age, 8% of those aged 18-29 use such services. When you take into account that the figure for all users is 7%, it’s clear that Foursquare and its competitors aren’t really any more youth-oriented than any other type of online service.
The most striking demographic figure is that use among Hispanic users is 10%, double that of black users and triple that of white (non-Hispanic) users. Income and educational background doesn’t make any significant difference.
The remaining conclusions of the survey were far more predictable. People who regularly use status-update based services such as Twitter were more likely to use location services. And people with access to the internet on their cellphones were also more likely to use them, while those with neither a cellphone nor a laptop with wireless use were less likely to do so. Well, duh.
Also, urban users were more likely to be on Foursquare and the like than suburban users, who in turn were more likely than rural users. That’s also to be expected: urban areas inherently have more tracked locations, giving more of a point to the service.
This is the second such survey by the group, and shows little significant difference since the first study in May, suggesting there’s been no major explosion in use. Of course, when you’re talking about such a low proportion of users in the first place, it’s harder to track as even a notable increase might be swallowed up by the statistical margin of error.
To promote their upcoming Humans vs. Zombies battle royale, students at SUNY Geneseo have released this totally epic trailer showing how the day at the event is typically spent. Check it out:
