Sisyphus – a record breaking Kickstarter funded kinetic table consisting of a lit bed of sand upon which a magnetised steel marble traces programmable mandalas, random geometries or custom messages.
The tables are available to pre-order in a variety of finishes in metal (starting from around €1,100) and wood (from €6,200).
Pawel Zadrożniak’s Floppotron – a musical ensemble made up of old computer hardware – is better suited to some cover versions than others.
Gary Numan’s Cars (1979) is a safe bet.
Take a high resolution guided tour of the entire moon – North pole, South pole, near side, dark side, Apollo 17 lunar lander – courtesy of imagery from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft.
Full screen for optimal effect.
A rather superb hack by developer Brian Kane where he’s hacked a Big Mouth Billy Bass and turned it into Amazon’s virtual assistant.
Cassie, an ‘ostrich-inspired’ bipedal robot created by Agility Robotics has a playdate with Spot – Boston Dynamics robo-quadruped.
Aren’t they adorable?
This is probably how they’ll cavort when they’ve killed all humans.
Previously: Little Help?
Boston Dynamics’ autonomous quadrobots evolve to the next level.
Imagine how far their militarised Wildcat has advanced in the last five years.
We’re all doomed.
Behold the Blipblox – a soon-to-be-released synthesiser and beatbox for ages 3 and up.
Now stop beholding it and let the child have a go.
Behold: the DroneGun Tactical by Australia/US based company DroneShield – 6.8kg of bad news for any hovering pest that dares to enter your airspace.
Effectively, a directional frequency jammer capable of cutting a drone’s video feed from a kilometre away, the gun can also force a drone back to its starting point or make it land on the spot.
Currently available to ‘government agencies’ only, but it’s only a matter of time before Jay-Z or Julian Assange or, you know, Nathan Carter gets one.
Famous works of art algorithmically subdivided by Greek motion graphics and visual designer Dimitris Ladopoulos.
The designer uses 3D animation software Houdini to break down the colour compositions of the centuries old paintings in order to showcase how each might be analysed as a designed object rather than a 2D painted surface.
1000x macrophotography of everyday items like salt, pepper, fruits and vegetable by Drew Geraci, who used a Sony A9 camera, a microscope and a slider rig to capture the detail.
