Behold: the Trifan 600 VTOL Plane – 1900km range, maximum weather-avoiding cruising altitude of 9.1km and three ducted fans for vertical take off and landing on a heliport.
Currently in development.
Hurry up, dammit.
Category Archives: Tech
Ten minutes of nerdly but useful DIY photo enhancement tips from Kai of DigitalRevTV including how to make a tripod sling, Vaseline soft focus, tights filters, camera stabilisation, using toilet roll inserts for reverse lens macro shots, custom bokeh from card cut-outs and creating a pinhole lens, eh, with a pin.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwrjAa1SgjQ
Boston Dynamics reveals the latest capabilities of its quadruped robot Spot (which has an arm for a head and can open doors) and Atlas, its humanoid bot which is, God help us all, running around the forest on a tether now.
Previously: Son Of Big Dog
Paperbot
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Paper Biped Robot (PR-Ⅴ) – a tiny mechanical bot made entirely from paper (no wooden supports or rubber bands) that walks but lacks the capability to kill all humans.
A short film by Greg Brunkalla exploring the experience of Neil Harbisson who was born with achromatopsia, a condition that renders him completely colourblind.
By way of an antenna implanted in the back of his head, Harbisson (who happily refers to himself as a ‘cyborg’) gains a comprehension of the colours around him by hearing distinct sounds.
Architect
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An intriguing piece of eye-candy made from photographs and video footage, directed by Kevin McGloughlin of Hinterland Films in Dublin, who sez of it::
Various techniques in time-lapse photography and long exposure photography are incorporated with real time footage. The images were later digitally manipulated and stacked in a 3D environment.
Car In A Bag
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WallkCar by Japanese designer Cocoa Motors – a portable electric vehicle the size of a laptop, soon to be funding (and pre-ordering) on Kickstarter.
The demise of the once ubiquitous Microsoft browser and inexorable dominance of Chrome compliled from Stat Counter data by Jody Sieradzki.
You’ll notice that Greenland switched to Safari last year.
It didn’t work out.
Dumbphone
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The Punkt MP01 phone – no apps, no camera, just texts and calls, a two inch display and Bluetooth.
Available from September for $295 (€270)
I’m sorry, how much?
