By Swedish graphic designer Victor Hertz.
Category Archives: Tech
Brought to you by siblings Cormac, Catriona and Colm Barry, trakAx MovieExpress is an impressively fully featured video mixer.
The app scans your device for photos, music and video and lets you edit and mix them together before exporting out as a whole new video.
I did find some of the controls were a bit fiddly to use on my Samsung S3 but I’m sure that’s not a problem on larger screened devices.
It’s available for €4 on the Google Play Store, which seems to me to be extremely cheap for what you get. There’s a free version in the pipeline with a somewhat reduced feature set.
Do you have an Irish app? Broadsheet@broadsheet.ie
As always, no favours, cuddles, or pints were given for this post. Some guidelines on submission are here.
Mechaneu v1 is the first in a series of 3D sculptures by NY based Proxy Design Studio designed to explore the limits of the 3D printing process.
Created using custom algorithms based on cellular growth patterns, the printed object is a sphere whose surface is formed by 64 gears, synchronised by a supporting spherical grid.
Spin one gear and the whole surface moves.
Designer Toru Hasegawa explains:
…nature solves many problems through shape alone, using material only where needed and taking out where unnecessary. This is a strategy you find over and over in the natural world, leading to complex geometries such as bone structures. we used this same logic on every part of the Mechaneu to create a porous object that feels completely solid.
It is – as you will no doubt already have gathered – witchcraft.
A Rubik’s Cube style installation on the facade of the Ars Electronica building in Linz. Shot by shot with Michaela Lakova. and created by Javier Loret who sez of it:
…the player interacts with the specially designed interface-cube. The interface-cube holds electronic components to keep track of rotation and orientation. This data is sent via Bluetooth to a computer that runs the Puzzle Facade designed software. This software changes the lights and color of the large-scale Ars Electronica’s media facade in correlation to the handheld interface-cube. Due to the nature of this building and its surroundings, the player is only able to see two sides at the same time. This factor increases the difficulty of solving the puzzle, but as the player is able to rotate and flip the interface-cube, it is not a blocking factor.
Music: Photonic Belt by Lenticular Clouds
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTKdLR8DeFM
Dublin based developer Kevin Bergin has released this addictive little game for both iOS and Android.
Like the best casual games, the idea is simple. Move your Gooboid (the little greenblue guy) around to gather energy and advance the levels all the while staying as close to but not touching the other Gooboids to get points.
It was so addictive I started carrying my horrible Galaxy S3 again just to play it.
The iOS version (which I only discovered this morning) unfortunately has my absolute bugbear issue of not being sized for the 5/5s/5c sized screen, but plays the exact same as the Android version.
Gooboids is available for free on the Apple App Store and the Google Play Store.
Do you have an Irish app? Broadsheet@broadsheet.ie
As always, no favours, cuddles, or pints were given for this post. Some guidelines on submission are here.
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What started out as a 2012 April Fool’s skit from Thinkgeek is now an actual thing you can nearly buy.
The Technomancer Digital Wizard Hoodie (€88 but currently out of stock) is a garment fitted with a speaker box, 32 LED lights and a sensor board allowing you to bust nine spells before being pummelled to the ground by concerned onlookers.
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UK artist Kyle Lambert’s extraordinary photorealistic ‘finger-painting’ of Morgan Freeman, created on an iPad Air with the Procreate app.
Though based on a photograph, it still took Lambert more than 200 hours and 285,000 brush strokes to complete.
Following on from yesterday’s drone post, here’s a demo of Amazon’s ‘prime air’ drone delivery system which aims to have package in customers’ hands in under 30 minutes using unmanned rotor-drones.
If the FAA agree the requisite aviation laws, Amazon plans to roll out the new service in the US by 2015.
Waterstones responds in style…
(H/T: Mairead)
I missed an Amazon drone delivery. pic.twitter.com/neJxYANj6p
— B to A to the R R Y (@QuantumPirate) December 2, 2013
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Interactive British Airways billboards at Piccadilly Circus and Chiswick created by Ogilvy 12th Floor display the flight number and route information of overhead air traffic in conjunction with a recording of a child pointing at the plane.