Van der Waals Ferrofluid Speaker
The Van der Waals ferrofluid speaker is a technological wonder that marries audio with art. It’s a spherical audio-visual unit that combines a speaker unit at the back with a clear dome at the front that houses a suspended blob of ferrofluid.…
Nimbus – Berndnaut Smilde
Berndnaut Smilde is a Dutch artist who uses a mixture of photography and installation, but is perhaps best known for creating indoor clouds. In the artist’s own words, the ‘Nimbus’ series “present a transitory moment of presence in a specific location”, something which is underlined by their existence only in photos.…
CNC technology in North Korea
Here’s a video extolling the virtues of CNC machining technology in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, set to music by the Pochonbo Electronic Ensemble. …
Genius 3D Printed PS4 and XBOX HOTAS Mod
A couple of months ago veritable top gun u/moinen made the front page on Reddit with his absolutely genius 3D printed HOTAS extensions for the XBOX One controller.
The concept is simple: 3D print a bunch of basic parts, pickup your XBONE controller, and snap it all together.…
6 Seat Luxury Submarine
It’s not every day you see a mini submarine that catches your eye.
I can only imagine this, but there must come a point in a billionaire’s life where they’ve run out of things to buy. There are the houses, the cars, the Michelin star restaurants, and then there’s the yacht.…
DIY 4K Projector
Once upon a time, we had vague plans to build a DIY projector from an old PC screen and some tatty bits of wood. Honestly, we’d never have done it much justice even if I hadn’t clumsily short-circuited the monitor and put an end to it.…
C’était un rendez-vous
On a quiet Sunday morning in August 1976, when most of Paris was asleep or on vacation, French film director Claude Lelouch took to the streets in his Ferrari 275GTB (or did he?). In the space of 8 minutes, he travelled 10.6km (6.6 miles) across Paris’ city centre at full speed and captured the run on a bumper-mounted 35mm camera.…
GUERRIERS DES CIMES – Benjamin Guindre
Benjamin Guindre is a French photojournalist, who is also a keen paraglider. At age 18 he did his military service under a specialist unit that introduced him to paragliding. Some years later, now a photojournalist, he returned to document the unit now called the Mountain Commando Task Force.…
Love, Love
Julien Berthier, giving boat owners and marina managers heart attacks since 2007.
Berthier modified fibreglass sailboat, chopping off the front half of the boat and re-arranging the keel to create the impression that the boat was sinking. Curator of the “Drift 08” exhibition on the Thames noted in the Evening Standard that she “thought it was an optimistic piece, because it never sinks.”…
