Monthly Archives: November 2010

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28 year-old Dutch software architect, Pascal vd Heiden shows off a computer he’s programmed with a custom interface modelled on the one used in Star Trek.

Here we see the impressively be-Trekked calendar, shopping list, rain radar, train timetable, internet browser, library and media player functions.

Holodeck, deflector array and weapons control to follow, presumably.

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Metropolis II, built by artist Chris Burden and a team of eight helpers, is a representation of road traffic in Los Angeles. Started in 2006, and still a work in progress, it features 1200 custom-made Hot Wheels cars, 18 lanes, Lego buildings and 13 toy trains.

In “Metropolis II,” by [Burden’s] calculation, “every hour 100,000 cars circulate through the city,” Mr. Burden said. “It has an audio quality to it. When you have 1,200 cars circulating it mimics a real freeway. It’s quite intense.”

Neatorama