https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmdXJy_IdNw
A vision of the future of AR by tech startup Magic Leap, shot using their software this month without any special effects or compositing.
This changes everything. Or nothing at all. Or some things.
It’s terribly exciting.
MORE: Magic Leap Shows How It Will Augment Your Day, Yet Questions Remain (WSJ)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wk5qT_814xM
An alternative (and vastly improved) ‘behind the scenes’ version of Apple’s iPhone6 Timer ad featuring Cookie Monster.
The noble art of fencing excellently shenaniganised with motion capture by Fencing Visualised Project.
Ain’t no party, like a fintech party.
Dynamic, creative and ambitious nerds starter-uppers take note.
Mark O’Toole writes:
Irish currency exchange startup CurrencyFair (of Sebastian Chabal fame) have just released this video offering advice to Irish start-ups and why tech companies should be positive about the Dublin scene.
It’s not all just about favourable tax breaks and early exit strategies you know.
FIGHT!
DISRUPT!
Google engineer Max Braun’s modded bathroom mirror – a personal prototype of an as-yet commercially unavailable futuristic domestic interface. Sez he:
The display is only a couple of millimeters thin and embedded in a layer between the two-way mirror glass and the door of the medicine cabinet. That way it looks very clean and I can keep using all the shelf space inside.
My Bathroom Mirror Is Smarter Than Yours (Max Braun, Medium)
Back in 2010, Panasonic ceased production of the legendary Technics SL1200 Mk6 analogue turntable (top), reputedly one of the most durable and reliable decks ever produced, claiming ‘a decline in demand for these analog products and also the growing difficulty of procuring key analog components necessary to sustain production.’
Since 1972, the company had sold 3.5 million SL1200 decks, beloved of DJs and vinyl aficionados the world over.
This year, with a current resurgence in vinyl, and following a sustained online petition, the SL1200 will return as the limited-edition SL-1200GAE.
In 1997, a special 25th anniversary edition SL1200LTD with gold plated accessories cost $1,200 (€1,070).
The cost of the latest iteration, to be released this summer is $4,000 (€3,570).
Supply and demand, people.
(H/T: Oisín)
Funky3DFaces makes bespoke printed heads (yours or anyone else’s) that you can attach to LEGO minifigs.
The company will recreate whatever photo portrait you send them in a 3D printed sandstone material for $30 (€27.60) per 15mm high head (other sizes and attachment points are available).
New York’s new LinkNTC public wifi hubs – currently replacing the city’s old standing phone kiosks. Browse the web and access services on a built in tablet, charge your device via USB and make free calls to anywhere in the US with the Vonage app
The first Installation of a planned 7,500 public hubs is underway and by mid July, at least 500 should be installed thoughout the five boroughs.
