The Philips Beardtrimmer 9000 – waterproof, laser-guided beard topiary for about €72.
You’ll nee-ever have to shave again.
Because you’ll have cauterised your retinas.
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Of this busy little tilt-shift video, Aaron writes:
Pal of mine works in a digital marketing agency called Strategem, they’re based down in Ringsend [Dublin[. They went up on their roof and took a video of the port/area with some interesting perspective, puts everything into miniature/model town view.
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As well as GPS, iOS and Android connectivity, internal speakers and a rear camera, the P1 Motorcycle Helmet from Silicon Valley HUD developers Skully Helmets has an integrated heads-up display that appears to float about 6m ahead of the rider.
No word on pricing, but you can apply to beta test the helmet here.
Artist Nickolay Lamm (he of Average Guys) consulted with animal eye specialists and ophthalmologists at the University of Pennsylvania’s veterinary school to visualise how cats (lower pix) see the world compared to humans (upper pix).
The blurry edges of the vistas represent cats’ enhanced peripheral vision. Elliptical pupils and greater concentration of rods in the retina means that their night sight is also superior, but cats have poor distance vision and can see blue and yellow colors, but not red, orange or brown.
Painter, sculptor and maker of extraordinary hypnotic wind sculptures Anthony Howe invites the nice people at Creator’s Project into his workshop to discuss art, computer design, alien creatures and the challenge of getting a piece of metal to spin at one knot in a fifty knot wind.
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Images created by the Phenakistoscope or ‘Fantascope’ – the first mechanical animation device – invented in 1829 by Belgian physicist Joseph Plateau 158 years before Compuserve introduced the world’s first Graphics Interchange Format image in 1987.
In later life, poor Joseph (top left) stared into the sun for 25 seconds to demonstrate the persistence of luminous impressions on the retina and ended up completely blind.
There’s a lesson there for us all.
MORE: an extensive collection of phenakistoscope images archived at The Richard Balzer Collection tumblr.
(Pic: Wikimedia Commons)
Behold BikeDroid.
An Android app showing real-time availability of Dublin Bikes.
Creator Warren McAllister writes:
BikeDroid will also find the closest bike or free stand to your current location.As Dublin Bikes is expanded to over 100 locations in 2014 and as other free-bikes schemes roll out across Cork, Limerick and Galway, the app will be extended to support these also.
Google Play link here
We’ve featured Tapadoo’s original version of this app before but their new iOS 7 only version is worthy of a post of its own.
Completely redesigned, it raises the bar for transport apps both is terms of looks and ease of use. It takes a minimal amount of taps to set up your stops and once that’s done you’ll get all the information you need at a glance.
It certainly beats the pants off the official offerings.
They’ve even included a few easter eggs for you to discover but they’re not saying where they are.
My Dublin Bus 2 is available on iTunes for €1.79 right now.
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iKettle (€119) will boil with a swipe of your iPhone and welcome you home by asking if you’d like a cuppa.
If you’re forking out €119 for a kettle, your servant will fill it.