Rachel Sussman takes pictures of the oldest living things on earth. On the third picture you see some green leaves sticking out from the ground. Those green leaves are over 13.000 years old… Respect to the f*ckers!
Find more pictures and ages here.
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Ok somebody prints out a 2d print and then buildings literally rise up… Is this really real? Yes, its really real. If science goes on to develop with this speed then we will find out in some 50 years that we ourselves are just a highly advanced Playstation game like for instance The Simms or Second Life. Is this going to deep? Alright! I’ll quit.
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Can I please get 10 minutes of your time to watch this first of 6 parts of a BBC documentary about the strange and mysterious connection between order and chaos? Thank you!
“The recording translates the length of its vinyl groove into audio allowing listeners to experience the 1/4 mile length of the spiral as the record is played. Every inch of the needle’s path is audible in the form of a click, each foot as a beat and distances of 10 feet are heard as a blip. These sounds gradually slow as the stylus approaches the center, (the stylus travels less distance in the groove with each revolution of the record). Along the way, the voice of the narrator mentions the horizontal dimensions of particular objects.”
Groovy!
(Found on Daniel Eatock)
Because Vacuum Cleaner Man is off!
“N Building is a commercial structure located near Tachikawa station amidst a shopping district. Being a commercial building signs or billboards are typically attached to its facade which we feel undermines the structures’ identity. As a solution we thought to use a QR Code as the facade itself. By reading the QR Code with your mobile device you will be taken to a site which includes up to date shop information. In this manner we envision a cityscape unhindered by ubiquitous signage and also an improvement to the quality and accuracy of the information itself.”
It’s the future you’re looking at.
(Found on One Plus Infinity)
Hubble has detected a mysterious spaceship-shaped object, traveling at 11.000 mph. It’s the first time NASA sees such an x-shape moving through our skies. They make a lot of speculations about colliding comets and so on, but the weird thing is that its nucleus is outside the dust halo which really not from this world.
(Found on NOTCOT)
I’m not going to lie about this one. When I read a title like this I get butterflies in my stomach, because a) I love the Golden Ratio or the Devine proportion (I even have a tattoo of it on my arm), and b) I’m actually a huge nerd.
“Researchers from the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie (HZB), in cooperation with colleagues from Oxford and Bristol Universities, as well as the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK, have for the first time observed a nanoscale symmetry hidden in solid state matter. They have measured the signatures of a symmetry showing the same attributes as the golden ratio famous from art and architecture.”
So, Phi is not only in our visual world (in all flora and fauna, music, art, architecture, stockmarkets, you name it), but also in the smallest invisible nano quantum world. So ‘a God’ definately left a fingerprint in everything he ‘created’.
Read more about the discovery here.
(Found on ISO50)
A giant touch screen by Intel on the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this year. Looks pretty nifty.
Put this vid on fullscreen, press play and you know what I am talking about. Happy Holidays and be good to eachother!
The Cyber Carpet is an invention (with a nerdy name) based on movement that is presumed to be a giant leap in the world of virtual reality. The treadmill that goes in every direction will make it possible that you can physically walk through virtual worlds. Just some years ago Sony filed a patent for a technology that would allow a virtual world, complete with sounds and smells, to be projected directly into the brain. Where will this end bothers and sisters? Let’s say that in some 200 years we will find out that we ourselves are just one big Playstation game. Ninininini!
(Found on NotCot)
Alright alright… there once was this Australian professor called Thomas Parnell. In 1923 mr. Parnell came up with an idea to measure the flow of a piece of tar pitch over many years. Sadly, Mr. parnell never knew the outcome, because the good man obviously passed away, probably somewhere around the fourth drop, beause the eight drop fell in 2000. On the picture you see the current custodian: professor John Mainstone. He still looks like a content man. Read more about the tar drops right here.
(Thanks Rule!)
“A surface covered with black sand turns into a pool full of life when people grab and remove a handful of sand away. In this micro-world, virtual creatures are born, live and perish. They recognize their spatial boundaries and obstacles of living and respond to peoples’ touch in various ways.”
More images, video’s and explanation here.
(Thanks Vio!)
That is probably the only thing you càn say when the latest photos of the Hubble telescope come rolling in through the fax machine.
(Thanks Evert & Vio!)
Scientists have been able to take, for the first time ever, a picture of an organic molecule. And you know what: it looks just like the line drawing you know form your science books (above). But is it really organic? It doesn’t really look that way if you ask me. Looks more like a well thought off structure… nininini.
Read more here.
Such things happen when you fix lights to a helicopters propellor.
(Found on Butdoesitfloat)
A miniature robot that can crawl through you veigns and lungs to find a tumor and then zap it with drugs? People growing up in the 80’s will probably think of the movie Innerspace. But the little iron bug you see on your left and below does all that. It can travel inside your body guided by electromagnetic fields outside your body which propell the tiny tentacles of the mini robot. I believe everthing is possible from now on. We probably are beaming up Scotties in some 20 years from now.
