You’ve seen skateboarding videos, but you haven’t seen anything like Bob Burnquist’s Dreamland. One of the best skateboarders in the world, Burnquist built a skateboarding mega-ramp in his backyard in Southern California. Now, he released an 8:30-minute video in which he defies gravity with a variety of crazy tricks, some of them including a helicopter …
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A Second a Day from Birth
Meet our son Indigo who was born on the 9th July 2012. From that day my wife and I videoed Indigo at least once a day, every day up to a year old. For his first birthday we’ve spent some time putting together a video of his entire first year. Recorded using the 1 Second …
3D Sound from ordinary laptop speakers
Edgar Choueiri, a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at Princeton University, has developed a way to play true three-dimensional sound recordings over regular loudspeakers, such as those found in televisions and computer laptops. The filter is designed to work with loudspeakers – not headphones – and can be experienced through standard computer speakers. (Make …
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A Month of Citi Bike
It’s been nearly two months since New York City rolled out its bike-sharing program. To see how it’s faring, we used live data, provided by Citi Bike, to map where people rode for one month. As the month progresses, the circles on the map grow or shrink according to the number of available bikes at …
Life of a Stranger Who Stole my Phone
LeapJS – JavaScript client(s) for the Leap Motion Controller
My Leap Motion Controller arrived last week. It’s quite fun to play around with, yet not recommended for every day use (this review by The Verge sums it all up quite nicely). Above that the daemon eats away CPU cycles as if it were candy 🙁 One very cool aspect about the Leap Motion though …
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WebZap – Web Dev Photoshop Plugin
WebZap is a web developer panel extension for Adobe Photoshop that is designed to help streamline the design processes undertaken by website user interface designers during the mock up and wire framing phases of web site development. Whilst I like this from a technical point of view (straight in Photoshop, huh?!) I think you’re better …