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.…
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.…
Terraplanter – An Inverse Plant Pot
There have been other self-watering planters before, but there are always issues with getting the right level of moisture, there’s dirt involved to make things messy, and they always look a bit, well, rubbish. The Terraplanter changes all of that – it looks great whether it’s got plants on it or not, and it’s unique design means that it waters fauna better than you can.…
Full-Size Remote Control Paraglider
There’s a few folks on YouTube trying to do new and different things with paraglider wings, but usually it involves flying in new places, new techniques, or crazy challenges in the name of entertainment. Andre Bandarra however, has just built an unmanned RC paraglider – but not a scale version, he uses his full-size wing.…
Murmurs
“There’s a crack in reality and something’s breaking through. Ten mind-altering tales from some of the best new drama podcast writers.” BBC, 2019
Murmurs is a series of 30 minute audio dramas that all suffer from unexplained interference. There’s a hollow, rising tension that leaves an aftertaste similar to that of the early Black Mirror episodes.…
Death And Valor On An American Warship Doomed By Its Own Navy
ProPublica have published a well-written series of rich content articles about the fatal collisions between commercial shipping and US Navy Destroyers in the Pacific. They are long articles but are well worth a read, providing an insight into the catastrophic sequence of events leading to deaths.…
Snazzy Maps
I have a thing for maps this week.
For those who aren’t aware you can completely, near-limitlessly, customise google maps (either live or in code). There’s something strangely satisfying about it. Lots of user created styles on the Snazzy Maps website too.…