My Pal Alex @ Neatorama just started offering these sweet-looking Star Wars lightsaber LED flashlights modeled after Anakin Skywalker and Darth Vader’s lightsabers. Both offer true-to-film level of details and feature a lightsaber sound effect when you turn them on or off.
[Neatoshop: Anakin Flashlight | Darth Vader Flashlight]
[Via MUO]
Chris Squink (Squink!) is a graphic designer and painter in Dronfield, UK. His custom sculpted toys are a nice blend of dark and lovable, combining elements like sad, laquered eyes with, oh I dunno, dead birds and stuff. Creepy! And adorable.
These images are from his gallery and Facebook page and are all in private collections now, but there are plenty of others available in his shop along with a few paintings and other merch. Squink is currently closed to commissions.
All images copyright Squink! 2011.
Back in 1977, geek heroes Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan headed up the team that created the golden record — gold-plated copper disc that serves as a sort of time capsule for Earth, in the event that some alien species finds and explores the Voyager probe as it wanders out past Pluto’s orbit and into the 40,000-year journey to the nearest planetary system.
NPR rounded up this video a while back that features some of the sounds and images on the Golden Record.
http://vimeo.com/9409571
As Sagan noted, “the spacecraft will be encountered and the record played only if there are advanced spacefaring civilizations in interstellar space. But the launching of this bottle into the cosmic ocean says something very hopeful about life on this planet.”
[NPR via Mental_floss]
You may find that the first 40 seconds are a little boring, but be sure to keep on watching till the end!
For the launch of the Galaxy SII in France, Samsung brought JayFunk, the internet Finger Tutting phenomenon, from Los Angeles to Paris to deliver an incredible and surprising choreography.
[Youtube]
The official title of this video is “Limitations imposed by wearing armour on Medieval soldiers’ locomotor performance,” but to tell you frankly, I don’t really care about the scientific value of this experiment. The only reason I’m posting this is because this is probably the first and last time you’ll ever see a guy wearing full plate armor running on a threadmill. Voilà.
A study published today in Proceedings of the Royal Society B shows that soldiers carrying armour in Medieval times would have been using more than twice the amount of energy had they not been wearing it. This is the first clear experimental evidence of the limitations of wearing Medieval armour on a soldier’s performance.
Youtuber bradonio took bits of footage from the original Planet of the Apes movie and mixed it with some dance music from Benny Bemassi. Check it out:
[Via TDWG]
