A turbine in Djursland, Denmark with a faulty safety breaker mechanism takes on the full force of the gulfstream.
Category Archives: Tech
Bad Apple
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A cacophonous 4.6 million note ‘black MIDI’ version of Bad Apple (a track from the game franchise Touhou Project) by Impossible Music Factory.
The term Black MIDI refers to the musical notation of tracks in this genre which appear as a solid unreadable black mass.
Catchy though.
Photosurreal
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Quality WTPhotoshoppery (using digital manipulations of his own images) by Caras Ionut.
Lots more here
Vaclav Crejci shows off his Word skillz, duplicating the flat pastel design of Apple’s new mobile interface.
We can do ‘bold’ and ‘underline’.
MS Excel Pacman anyone?
With the help of Grindhouse Wetware, ‘Biohacker’ Tim Cannon has designed a computer capable of recording and transmitting real-time biometric data to android-powered devices.
A fellow biohacking enthusiast has embedded the thing (sealed in plastic and powered by a wirelessly rechargable battery) without anesthesia into Cannon’s forearm.
Motherboard TV sez:
Called the Circadia 1.0, the implant can record data from Cannon’s body and transfer it to any Android-powered mobile device. Unlike wearable computers and biometric-recording devices like Fitbit, the subcutaneous device is open-source, and allows for the user the full control over the data.
Listen Up
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The Advance of Audio Apparatuses from Pop Chart Lab: 219 ‘engines of aural bliss’ from 1840 to the present day (available as a 60 x 80cm print for $32).
The Dirty Robot Brew Works is a nanobrewery in San Francisco that uses robots throughout its brewing process
Episode one of Brew Age – a new craft beer series from Discovery’s Test Tube network.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-qNS2x0H2E
Reuters reports on an innovative new project at the Norwegian town of Rjukan – located at the base of a narrow valley and starved of sunlight for six months of the year.
The brainchild of local artist Martin Anderson, the plan involves three heliostat mirrors positioned at the top of the hill that will reflect a patch of SAD-dispelling sunlight into the town square all Winter long.
An ‘e-velocipede’ concept based on the Karl Drais 1865 Dandy Horse by German design studio Ding3000 (in collaboration with chemicals giant BASF, which was founded the same year).
The brakes axles and motor are metal. The rest of the ‘pede is made from 24 lightweight carbon fibre polymers.
Bonus outrageous voiceover.