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A mind-bogglingly awesome new project from MIT called Flyfire hopes to use large, precision-controlled clouds of micro-helicopters, each carrying a color-coordinated LED light, to create massive, three-dimensional information displays in space.
Wonderful video, The Seed, by Johnny Kelly
Yes! (via)
Nicholas Roope on advertising vs. things.
Spooky
This is a wonderful PBS documentary on the digital life. It’s given me a lot to think about.
Henry Louis Gates Jr. on how technology enables a kind of time travel.
Arthur Harsuvanakit designed this alarmless alarm clock that mimics sunlight as a means of “naturally” waking you up…
One word: Nightmare.
via Paul Isakson - a cool new take on the flip book.
Captain Picard on the internet…
I wish this had existed so I could have been inspired by it back when I was doing my film degree project…
Brilliant Noise takes us into the data vaults of solar astronomy. After sifting through hundreds of thousands of computer files, made accessible via open access archives, Semiconductor have brought together some of the sun’s finest unseen moments. These images have been kept in their most raw form, revealing the energetic particles and solar wind as a rain of white noise. This grainy black and white quality is routinely cleaned up by NASA, hiding the processes and mechanics in action behind the capturing procedure. Most of the imagery has been collected as single snapshots containing additional information, by satellites orbiting the Earth. They are then reorganised into their spectral groups to create time-lapse sequences. The soundtrack highlights the hidden forces at play upon the solar surface, by directly translating areas of intensity within the image brightness into layers of audio manipulation and radio frequencies.
Wonderful!
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