Celebrating 50 years of the 911, Porsche assembles seven generations of the iconic roadster into a basic scale of engine tones for a festive tune.
There’s also an interactive version here.
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The most successful performance to date of Boston Dynamics’ Wildcat robot – funded by US military tech developer DARPA’s M3 programme – a wireless, free-roaming version of the headless Cheetah (which can run faster than Usain Bolt).
The prototype, which can bound, gallop, corner and reach a top speed of 16mph (25.7km/h), has a few minor teething troubles to sort out but should be ready to hunt down and kill all humans any day now.
Yet another depopulated timelapse inspired by Ross Ching’s Empty America series – this time with an added twist.
Using a full spectrum camera with a yellow filter, Bruce Wayne Berry Jr took to the streets of Philadelphia, recording the scenes in infrared.
Previously: Paris, Deserted
An intriguing installation created in 2006 by artist Jeppe Hein featuring a fountain of water with a ball of flame somehow burning at the top.
Viewers are invited to guess how the anomaly is achieved.
‘Witchcraft’ is an acceptable answer.
…this is.
An extraordinary device created by John S. Holler in Germany around 1880 – ten years before the first ever Swiss Army knife.
100 accessories include blades, shears, scissors, an auger, a corkscrew, saws, a lancet, button hook, cigar cutter, pens and pencils, mirror, straight razor, piano tuning tool, a concealed compartment filled with miniature tools and a fully functioning .22 caliber five-shot pinfire revolver.
Sacred Space by London based artist (and former computer technician) Leonardo Ulian is a series of artworks inspired by the meditative depictions of the cosmos in Hinduism and Buddhism.
From flat geometric patterns to the miniature tree sculpture entitled Centrica Bonsai, all are made from soldered-together defunct radio and computer components of which Ulian sez:
“We live in a society that worships electronic technology,” he states “both for necessity but also because it makes us feel better, not unlike its own new form of fashionable spirituality.”
Sacred Space is currently on exhibitiion at the Beers Contemporary Gallery in London.
Spotted in Tyrrelstown, Dublin.
(Thanks Ciaran)
The deftly edited, rhythmic result of Duncan Robson’s trawl through hours of TV and movies in search of those moments where characters bash malfunctioning technology to make it work.
Music: Joel Robson
Chickens, like many other birds, have a sophisticated vestibulosensory system that allows them to keep their heads locked in one position despite the movement of their bodies.
This is why the suspension of an S-class Mercedes Benz is made entirely from chickens.
A combined live performance tech demo and art installation by San Francisco design company Bot and Dolly who use large scale robotics, projection mapping and software engineering to conjour the appearance of three dimensions on moving surfaces.
You know. Witchcraft.
(Best viewed full screen and in HD)
(H/T: Darren)