A 3m tall four-armed mecha suit made for WIRED by monster makers Stan Winston Studios and Legacy Effects (which created the Jaeger effects for Pacific Rim).
Premiered last month (with the help of Adam Savage) at San Diego Comic Con, (top) the second video shows a recent ‘walk test’ where the suit is being piloted by its creator Bruce D. Mitchell.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4zNufXt-Zs
40 year-old French waiter, aero-nut and would-be pilot Laurent Aigon spent five years constructing an insanely detailed 737 cockpit simulator in his son’s bedroom in Lacanau, south-west France.
Such was his attention to detail that he’s since been invited to lecture at the Institute of Aircraft Maintenance at Bordeaux-Merignac.
Ruari Lynch writes:
My parents recently bumped into this guy who was filming using Quadcopters and DSLR cameras on Galley Head near Rosscarbery, Co. Cork. I managed to get in contact with him and he sent me a link to the footage, which turned out to be pretty good!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQDdB0cjlNs
A wheelbarrow with a footboard, a scooter engine and the Road Warrior seal of approval.
Of his retina-bothering Wicked Spyder III 3 Arctic and Krypton galaxy laser enhanced campfire, Tim Roman sez:
We created an awesome three dimensional starfield using the krypton with the star lens, and the Arctic laser with the perpendicular plane lens. We shot these into a campfire and people came from all of the nearby campsites just to have a look!
And staggered away blinded and screaming, bless ’em.
Two months ago, MOMA Poet Laureate Kenneth Goldsmith launched an insane ambitious project wherein he asked contributors to print out the entire web. Said he:
If you printed the internet, reading it would take 57,000 years, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week non-stop and if you read it for 10 minutes a night before bed, it would take 8,219,088 years. We begin on July 26th.
Ten tonnes of printed material is now on show at an art gallery in Mexico City.
Emoji Tracker by ‘social technologist’ Matthew Rotherberg is an epilepsy-bothering light-up grid of all the emoji being used on Twitter right now in real time.
It’s up there with all the major global news feeds. You’ll want to bookmark it.
https://vimeo.com/65303694
In this ‘small tribute to Photoshop filters’, Barcelona based design studio Device apply every Photoshop filter to the Photoshop logo in a bid to ‘seek the essence of the software.’
There’s also a Tumblr where each of the melon-twisting effects is shown as an animating gif.
Rhex is an experimental all terrain hexapod developed as a search and rescue robot by the University of Pennsylvania.
It’s the toy you want but can’t have.
A glimpse of the human and robot staffed factory in Fremont California where, among other things, the chassis of the electric supercar is conjoured from rolls of aluminium.
