Avengers nut and curator of the Laser Gadgets website, Patrick Priebe gets his Tony Stark on with a self-built, projectile firing, dual laser metal glove you’ll be glad that kids can’t have for Christmas.
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Superdextrous mixer Shawn Wasabi puts a custom-built 64 button Midi Fighter (the first of its kind, apparently) through its paces with a 153-sample mashup. Sez he:
…the button on the bottom left triggers banks. 4 buttons on the bottom right trigger banks within banks. everything else is sounds.
Now you know.
Colm Doyle writes:
When I started using dublinbikes more frequently, I couldn’t really find an app that ticked all the boxes for me. Some were focused on showing me a map, others wanted to show me a big long list of really small text that didn’t really make it clear what the situation was in terms of bikes or stands. And forget trying to use the website on your phone when you’re running around town looking for a bike.
Frustrated, I decided to just build my own. I focused on what I find to be the most common situations
It shows you the important details about a station in a giant numbers – How many bikes, how many stands? The list is sorted according to my current location, so I get the more relevant stations at the top. I can mark stations as favourites and show just those ones, again, with the important information highlighted.
If a station gets closed for maintenance (which happens more often than you might think), then I instantly get a notification to let me know and I can plan accordingly.
Rothar is available on the Apple App Store for free.
Do you have an Irish app (especially an Android one)? Let us know: Broadsheet@broadsheet.ie
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Mario and Fafa discuss their top ten futuristic movie products that are better than, and that should be made instead of the imminent Nike Back to the Future power lace hi-tops.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUC2GD351EU
Probably not, given that Apple’s CEO is openly gay, but still.
Apple say it was all caused by a ‘bug’, since fixed.
Russian Siri refuses to talk about gays: ‘I will pretend I didn’t hear that’ (Pink News)
Kinetic Sand
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An interactive table created by French artists Adrien Mondot and Claire Bardainne.
The digitally responsive surface reacts to up to 32 simultaneous touches, generating particle animations that swirl around objects placed on top.
The table will be on view at Palais De La Découverte in Paris from June.
Previously: Dance: Pixel
♿︎ Or あ?
atStill one of my favourite hacks: Dublin Bus timetable boards use a Japanese あ character to denote disabled access. pic.twitter.com/KxTLsZVmXf
— Paul Campbell (@paulca) March 12, 2015
So what’s it to be?
Japanese ‘A’ kana or unicode U+267F?
(Thanks Localisation Girls)
C writes:
Followed one of those silly “Suggested Stories” links on FB and found this [a story on Boredom Therapy last month exploring the interesting phenomenon of offline file-sharing communities that secrete ‘dead drop’ USB drives in public places around the world. The first five were installed in Brooklyn by artist Adam Bartholl in 2010.]
Decent enough story):
Was curious to see what locations existed in Ireland, found this (below).
Activated and broken on the same day… this is why we don’t get nice things.
A poster series created by Toronto-based Rack And Pinion creative agency for PsiPhon (a mobile and desktop circumvention tool that provides uncensored net access) to shed light on government censorship of social media and Internet services around the world