VFX sweder Joey Shanks attempts to recreate the transporter effects of Star Trek with Christmas lights.
He says it’s ‘not that tough once you get the hang of it.’
Category Archives: Tech
From Jony Ive Redesigns Things – the Tumblr of LA-based graphic artist Sasha Agapov -wherein The Apple iOS7 pastel palette, gradients and narrow typefaces are applied to things, as if by Sir Jony Ive.
Colin Furze, a self-described garage inventor has built a jet bike.
I don’t think I’ve ever written a better sentence.
Feeling brave? There’s instructions on how to build your own on his site.
iCandy: iOS7
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The official trailer for Apple’s new, totally revamped mobile operating system in which Apple’s Senior VP of Industrial Design Sir Jony Ive waxes lyrical about, well, design.
Androids gonna hate.
iOS 7 design changes remain in flux, likely to see major revisions before release (Apple Insider)
Michael Rigley, a student at the California College of Art, created this beautifully rendered and now somewhat timely animation about data capture from mobile phones for his BFA design thesis project. Sez he:
Information technology has become a ubiquitous presence. By visualizing the processes that underlie our interactions with this technology we can trace what happens to the information we feed into the network.
Game Of Drones sez:
Game of Drones introduces UAV’s to the masses with a new web series about amateur drone design & aerial combat competitions. We demystify drones while sharing design, engineering and friendly combat games through fun, inexpensive projects for the whole family. We also blow stuff up. It’s 1/2 demolition derby and 1/2 Skynet.
Here, the team assembles and tests a fully functioning paintball drone.
(Broadsheet bon viveur/code god Karl (top) and the new android app)
Finally, more than two and a half years after my iOS version was released I’ve built an Android app for Broadsheet.ie and it’s available now on the Google Play store (and in the process missed our all too brief summer).
The app doesn’t quite have feature parity with the iOS version but is close enough that it warrants release I will be actively developing it over the summer in step with some updates to the iOS app.
The Android fragmentation issue means I’ve not been able to test it on all platforms, but I’ve made an effort to ensure it works on the top 10 devices that access the website. Hopefully the app won’t look too bad outside of these.
Think you can do better?
As with the iOS version of the app, the code is available on GitHub under the MIT license. I do this not in the hope that someone will come along and fix bugs or improve it but in case someone else finds it useful and wants to use it.
I would, of course, be delighted if someone actually did create a pull request…
And now over to you
The Android-using section of our readership have been very vocal about wanting an app. When presented with evidence of lower engagement on the site from Android the lack of an app has been blamed (an opinion which I don’t subscribe too – it seems more like Android users don’t really use their devices compared to iOS).
The only way developers are going to take Android seriously is if people actually use their phones and download apps. So grab the app today and make this developer a happy man.
My God. It’s full of Apps…
Stupid Calculations has worked out that – tiled and stacked together – the 352,292,000-odd iPhones sold since the launch in 2007 would form a one-iPhone thick monolith screen (based on the average screen area of all iPhone models) 868m wide and 1,542m tall – wider than Central Park and taller than any skyscraper in Manhattan.
More stats on the 2001: A Space Odyssey style monophone here.
A modest Mk1 VW Golf converted by German tuners Boba Motoring from an old vintage guffer into an insane, tarmac-chewing, 1.8L, 16V KR GTX4202R turbo-powered one thousand and thirteen horsepower death-pellet.
It does 1-60mph in 2.3 seconds and tops out at 200mph.
They call it the ’16Vampir’.