Just Watch: The Double Slit Experiment
One video that will make you question the existence of everything around you. You will never forget watching this for the rest of your life.
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The Weirdest ‘Fashion’ Trend To Hit China: Face-Kini
The only thing that makes this fashion is the fact that it comes in a variety of designs and you can buy them at swimwear stores. The intent for Face-Kini is protection from the sun.
“One way to avoid the dangerous rays of the sun is to stay indoors, another is to apply a healthy layer of sun cream and slap on a wide-brimmed hat.
If you’re in China, however, there is a third option - a ‘Face-Kini’ complete with a body suit.
The name describes a protective head mask that is being used in Shandong province’s East China Sea coast by beach-goers who want to protect their skin from the sun.”
“The clothing was invented around seven years ago and is now under mass production and on sale at swimwear stores along the coast.”
Via Daily Mail
What It Feels Like To Be A Freelancer
I can say I’ve never had the displeasure of working with someone who hasn’t flat out paid me for my work, however the video is comical and figured someone would enjoy this.
The Lion King Rises: Christopher Nolan Approved Lion King Parody
From the title alone, I was confused as to the purpose of this video. Essentially, this ‘parody’ is the visuals from The Lion King with the audio from The Dark Knight Rises.
At first it sounded pretty ridiculous till you actually watch it. The voiceover is perfect, I don’t even know how that was possible. It made The Lion King look better than it actually was.
It’s so good, in fact, that Christopher Nolan called it ‘pretty epic’.
After I read that, I was quite impressed.
Louis Vuitton Waffle Maker
For those who eat, sleep, and drink fashion - this is definitely up your alley. As a novelty gift, or a prized item, this is interesting.
By Andrew Lewicki
Your Brain Will Hate You For Watching This
Now that, is an optical illusion.
Apple Graffiti
I’ll let the picture speak for itself.
Soft Stacking - The Future Potential Of How We Think Of Layers
Here’s another way to think of layers in the future.
Thanks to Angelo for the find!
Speeds Up To 2.5 Terabits Per Second: That’s 7 Blu-ray Movies Per Second
Let’s take a look at how fast our internet connections are now.
Some people are currently at 12 Mbps, recently they’ve been a lot of upgradable options to jump to 30 Mbps and higher. For example. Verizon has rolled out Fios which goes up to 300Mbps. That’s a full HD movie in around 2 minutes or so.
The google test connection which is based on fiber optics is now 1 Gpbs, so approximately 3 times faster than than the top tier connection available.
Now comes a technological advancement that blows it all away.
2.5 Terabits per second. That’s 2.5 Tbps. 2,500 times faster than even Google’s 1 Gigabit per second fiber optic connection.
http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/131640-infinite-capacity-wireless-vortex-beams-carry-2-5-terabits-per-second
American and Israeli researchers have used twisted, vortex beams to transmit data at 2.5 terabits per second. As far as we can discern, this is the fastest wireless network ever created — by some margin. This technique is likely to be used in the next few years to vastly increase the throughput of both wireless and fiber-optic networks.
In this case, Alan Willner and fellow researchers from the University of Southern California, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and Tel Aviv University, twisted together eight ~300Gbps visible light data streams using OAM. Each of the eight beams has a different level of OAM twist. The beams are bundled into two groups of four, which are passed through different polarization filters. One bundle of four is transmitted as a thin stream, like a screw thread, while the other four are transmitted around the outside, like a sheathe. The beam is then transmitted over open space (just one meter in this case), and untwisted and processed by the receiving end. 2.5 terabits per second is equivalent to 320 gigabytes per second, or around seven full Blu-ray movies per second.
The future is about to get better exponentially. Get excited.
What would we possibly use this speed for? Perhaps cloud computing which may be the future. Who knows, but I still want it.
Eternal Love In Art
When he died, his wife
commissioned this sculpture,
as an expression of her love for him
Mt Macedon Cemetery in Victoria, Australia
Beautiful.
(Source: kiraketeer, via namosays)
Bear 71: A Interactive Web Project
This project won the Gold Cyber Lion Award at the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival recently. Rightfully so, this project was highly interactive. The subject matter is not the norm, but worth the look.
About:
Bear 71 is a rich interactive project, installation and social narrative that features a 20 minute interactive documentary that raises awareness about the intersection of animals, humans and technology. This multi-user experience launched alongside an installation at the Sundance festival entitled “Bear 71 Live”. The narrative follows the real life of a female grizzly bear in Canada’s Banff National Park from the moment she is tagged and collared by park rangers to the moment of her untimely death.The story is narrated from the bear’s perspective, but users witness it through real footage collected from over 1 million photos take by motion triggered cameras that encompass the park.
I was pretty impressed with the level of detail it went into. Check it out and give it a shot!
Thanks to Eikona for sending this in!
Prints That Show The Reflective Functions Of Real Objects
When you see an object in person and change the position of the light source, the object looks dramatically different. Think of a sculpture and how different it looks when you change the light source from the top to the right.
Similarly in prints, once the print is made you can’t change the light source and the moment captured reflects the light source that you saw that day.
This dramatic method allows you to see the object in a different depth!
Thanks to Angelo for the find!
You can learn more about it here:
http://graphics.soe.ucsc.edu/prf/
Designer Prosthetic Legs
What a great idea! Check out the full set here.
They actually look rather nice.
