Author Archives: Niall Murphy

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The Harry Winston Opus Eleven Watch:

Anarchy takes hold of the hours indication beneath the sapphire-crystal dome every 60 minutes. The numeral of the hour, assembled in the center of the circle, explodes into chaos before instantly reassembling as the new hour. It then remains still until the next disintegration. Instead of a hand, 24 placards revolve and rotate on a complicated system of gears mounted on an epicycloidal gear-train.

It’s difficult to reconcile ‘anarchy’ with a price tag of $250,000. Or maybe it’s not.

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The Flying Machine Arena at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich is a testing area for flying robots like the Quadrotor Quadrocopter.

Nifty toys, or miniature spybot UAVs capable of flying through an air-vent and dropping a bomb in a dictator’s lap.

Either way, we’re having two for the office.

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Thirty years ago this week, John Hinckley attempted to assassinate the then US President, Ronald Reagan:

…on March 30th of 1981, 25-year-old John Hinckley wrote the following letter to actress Jodie Foster. In it, Hinckley — a man so obsessed with Foster as a result of her role in Taxi Driver that he had previously followed her to Yale University; enrolled in a class; and proceeded to stalk her — made clear his immediate plan: to kill U.S. President Ronald Reagan in a bid to somehow win her affections.

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True to his word, later that day Hinckley fired 6 times at Ronald Reagan outside the Washington Hilton Hotel; four people, including Reagan, were injured. At trial the next year, Hinckley was found not guilty by reasons of insanity.

‘I may be killed in my attempt to get Reagan‘ (Letters Of Note) (full transcript)

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360Cities has created a humungous 40 gigapixel interior panorama of the gorgeous 18th century Strahov library in the Czech Republic, composed of 3000 hi-res images stitched seamlessly together. They claim it’s the largest indoor image ever photographed.

It’s properly gob-smacking. You can read the title of virtually every book.

Try it out for yourself here.

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Quentin Tarantino turned 48 last Sunday, celebrating the day by hosting the inaugural screening of Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair – both movies assembled to form one (as the director had always envisaged).

Since there’s still no DVD release date for the combined Kill Bill movie, artist, Tyler Stout created the rather excellent poster above for the cinema release.

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