Created by Karl-Johan Ekeroth as his graduation project at the University of Gothenburg, Invoxicated is an interactive sound effects sculpture that lets children experience the pure joy of playing with sound effects in the public space.
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Yep, you could get this printed on a shirt… as long as the design gets enough votes at Threadless.
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In the following video, Bill Hammock, the Engineer Guy, explains everything there is to know about a hard drive by tearing one apart to show us the role of each of its components. This is by far the best explanation I’ve heard on how hard drives work. Check it out:
Jean-Christophe Naour used openGL, SimpleOpenNI, openNI and primeSense libraries to built a graffiti-making tool that uses the Kinect as a drawing medium. Check it out:
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Sure, Weird Al had his chance to geek-up Lady Gaga’s “Born this Way,” but it seems Ryan of The Warp Zone one-upped him a bit.
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What do you get when you expose beer, as it’s getting brewed, to some of the most awesome things our era has to offer? The best beer on the surface of this planet, apparently. Check it out:
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Here at [GAS] we like to highlight the fact that being smart and appreciating pop culture and technology can still be totally hot, as evidenced by the multitude of boom anime babes we’ve featured and frequent Nathan Fillion references. But geeks are also geeky, right? Recently, a commenter on our Facebook page got straight to the point: “LESS BIKINIS, MOAR SCIENCE.” I’ll forgive him his egregious misuse of less/fewer, but only because he was right: geeks like to learn stuff. And we like giving you what you like; [GAS] readers are our favorite people.
Before I stepped out of Office Space and into the perilous abyss that is freelance writing, I was a researcher in an OTC-drug and cosmetics laboratory. (No, we didn’t do any animal testing; the only lab rats we kept were a few brave colleagues and myself.) While the job mostly involved chemistry and physiology, I’m not ever surprised to find myself watching TED talks about quantum physics and getting overly excited about video of solar flares. And, yes, I intentionally performed a few volatile reactions just to liven up the place.
With that in mind, I have an idea. Clearly my interests skew science-ward, which tells me the same is true for many of you. I’d like the opportunity to talk about that sort of thing–if you all are interested. It’s all on the table here. If you want to skip the talk about DNA-based computation or the competing ideas about dark matter’s mysterious properties, speak up.
I’m opening this post to requests. Would a regular, probably-unsexy column on thinky topics be of interest? And if yes, then what specific subject would you like to know more about?
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