Monthly Archives: November 2010

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The Swinglet Cam drone takes off, flies and lands by itself, following a pre-programmed flightpath and taking a series of high-resolution pictures based on user-defined GPS waypoints. The pix are downloaded when the drone lands.

It’s said to cost around €7000.

Cheap, compared to its cousin in the US military.

Your Very Own UAV (Crunchgear)

This is:

“The gathering mortgage crisis puts Ireland on the cusp of a social conflict on the scale of the Land War, but with one crucial difference. Whereas the Land War faced tenant farmers against a relative handful of mostly foreign landlords, the looming Mortgage War will pit recent house buyers against the majority of families who feel they worked hard and made sacrifices to pay off their mortgages, or else decided not to buy during the bubble, and who think those with mortgages should be made to pay them off. Any relief to struggling mortgage-holders will come not out of bank profits – there is no longer any such thing – but from the pockets of other taxpayers.”

Professor Morgan Kellly (Irish Times)

An artist is making the streets of London a little more colourful by painting miniature pictures on pieces of discarded chewing gum.

For the past six years, Ben Wilson has spent days on end scouring pavements for discarded gum that he can bring to life.

Wilson has created more than 8,000 works of art this way – each one photographed and catalogued for his archive. A picture can take anything from two hours to three days to complete.

Maybe we could get him over here. The streets are just one big canvas in Dublin, anyway.

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