There’s no doubt that we’re all spending an awful lot more time online these days, thanks mainly to the increasingly competitive nature of broadband deals and a whole host of irresistible gadgets that are currently available. If you’re looking to stay connected on the move then there has never been a better time to snap [...]
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The Listening Ears of Dungeness
After World War I things were still pretty dodgy in Europe. It was supposedly the war to end wars, but due to acts of aggression and a series of chain reactions there was much preparation for more of the same. On the Dungeness headland at Denge at the very southeastern coast of England sits one [...]
Using Your Android As A Broadband Modem
Today’s smartphones aren’t simply for gaming, emailing, calls, and texting. These cutting edge pieces of technology have slowly transitioned over to the world of true multitasking as mobile hotspots and wireless broadband modems. Phones have had the ability to be tethered to laptops and tablets for years, but it has not been until recently that [...]
Surface Detail – Fractals Become The Living Mass
The fractal is one of the most intriguing mathematical systems known to man. A deep, multi-textured and layered universe, one that so gracefully mirrors the natural, but created by a relatively simple algorithmic equation. Iterate Z = Z2 + C and you come up with an infinitely repeating fractalized image. What better way to define the economy [...]
YouTube and the Evolution of Mad Skillz
Technology has been nothing but beneficial for creative expression. In recent years, advancements have seriously reduced the cost of being creative so that anyone with a vision and the right tools can make a video or write a song and can have that art be seen and heard — sometimes by tens (if not hundreds) [...]
Techniques in 3-D Building Mapping
The Best Thing To Happen To Old Buildings Since The Flying Buttress. Welcome to the twenny-tens™, the age when simply looking at things is not enough, an era of constantly needing more and more visual stimulae to be impressed. Fortunately there’s this amazing new technology called 3-dimensional building mapping whereby you take, say, a cool [...]
Your Life Online: A Map of the Internet World
Have you sailed these seas? Chances are if you’re looking at this right now, you may be a full-time resident. On the heels of the Mapping Stereotypes project comes this cartographic gem from Randal Munroe, the cultural seismometer over at xkcd.com. He’s spent his precious man-hours mapping where we spend our time interacting with other [...]
App Tells You Where That Plane’s Going
It’s a good time to be a techie traveler. Hot off the release of an app that can translate images into words comes an interesting new app that tells you about the planes in the sky. Have you ever looked up at a plane and wondered about the lost souls flying inside? Well, you may [...]
Ultraportable Fold-up Keyboard
Cervantes Mobile may have an answer to your virtual keyboard grievances: Jorno, a pocket-sized fold-up Bluetooth keyboard you can pretend is a Chunky® bar until you need to use it. This petite device folds down to the size of a deck of cards (or a Chunky® bar) allowing you to slip it into your whatever [...]
Picaso’s Guernica in 3D
Guernica may be Picaso’s most significant work. It’s got it all, deep symbolism, death, tragedy and an ox. It’s also a deeply personal response to a war he felt very close to but was completely removed from at the same time. The following video has been around for a while but it’s rich as ever [...]
Rolling Shutter Effect vs. The Matrix
You’re sitting in your seat, just as calmly as you please when you stop to take some video out the window. And when you look at the footage you rub your eyes trying to make sense of the turbine blades that seem to be melting away from the propeller housing. You wish they would just [...]
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