Exclusive Videos of the New Lego Lord of the Rings
Lego had some really cool new stuff at their NYC Toy Fair booth. Of course, I jumped straight away to all the Lord of the Rings sets, which I was able to record quickly for your nerdgasmic pleasure.
Lego had some really cool new stuff at their NYC Toy Fair booth. Of course, I jumped straight away to all the Lord of the Rings sets, which I was able to record quickly for your nerdgasmic pleasure.
Petros Vrellis has turned Vincent Van Gogh's The Starry Night into an animation that changes when the user touches it. The effect is so beautiful and mesmerising that I'm now craving an app that would let me do the same.
The Higgs Boson still hasn't made an appearance, but in an even more stunning discovery apparently the Large Hadron Collider has been responsible for creating the new 2012 Range Rover Sport. That's £6 billion well spent right there.
Flight Global's Jon Ostrower posted videos of three different kinds of airplane approaches and landings. The first one is the most spectacular, as a Airbus A320 approaches Bhutan's airport zooming, close to 3,500m mountains. Fast forward to 5:39.
On January 20, dozens of New Zealand police's elite special forces broke into Kim Dotcom's mansion with assault helicopters, M4A3 automatic weapons, Glock pistols, dogs, sledgehammers and even a circular chainsaw, as if they were expecting a vicious narco gang waiting inside, armed to the teeth.
These days it’s all about asynchronous communication. Gone is the need to actually call people – analogous to standing in front of someone shouting “talk to me now!” -- replaced by email, SMS and a plethora of other messaging services. But when it comes to video calling, how do you send a video message? There’s an app for that.
The first time I saw it I thought it was a real bloke just standing there. The amount of detail is just amazing, uncanny almost. Virtual humans have never managed to look all that realistic in games, at least those rendered in real time. Maybe they move like us, but when up close and personal, there’s always been something lacking -- until now.
Brant Widgeon, an Astronomical Image Enhancement Engineer at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center*, chats about his experience creating all those amazing space images that leave the entire world in awe. What the world doesn't know is how they're really created.
The conquering of traditional film by video technology is a story whose outcome was perhaps decided years ago. But there remain the hangers-on who fight in the name of those grainy, flickering, celluloid strips. "Side by Side" is a documentary produced by Keanu Reeves (seriously), which examines the transition from film to video in the world of movies.
Call it tacky. Call it garish. Call it naff, if you must. Call it whatever you want, but this is the most unnecessarily amazing charger for iPhone and iPad ever created by humankind. It glows with electric blue light and it is animated!
Man gets out of the cockpit. Man walks the wing. Man hangs onto the wing's edge. Aircraft rolls. Man jumps off the plane. I really don't have anything to add to this video filmed over Iceland. I'll just keep replaying it for a bit. [Thanks Jorge!]
We know that Apple just had its biggest quarter in history. We know that they made an insane $46.33 billion in revenue. But do we really know how much money $46.33 billion is, well for starters it's £30 billion. It's hard to visualise, so this presentation and facts may help:
There's nothing like a good viral video to spread the word that you're hiring, and that's what Twitter hopes they've created with their latest recruiting effort that combines equal parts cheesy and awesome.
On January 22, a January 22 M8.7 class flare caused the biggest solar storm since 2005. Airplanes had to change routes, and the power grid and satellites were affected. It also caused some of the best auroras ever seen.
I've always wondered what the world looks like from a dog's point of view. After watching this video, now I know. Kelsey Wynn outfitted his Great Dane, Bishop, with a GoPro and took him to the dog park to play. You get to see everything Bishop's see and it looks so freaking fun.
