Remember how your parents and grade school teachers kept chiding you to make sure you only coloured within the lines? And you wondered why it was so important? Well, here’s your answer. Peter Deligdisch’s Between The Lines is a colouring book for experts that will put all of your coloured pencil and crayon skills to the ultimate test. More » ...
Overhead satellite views are nothing special in this age of Google maps — but then, there’s Daily Overview. From brick-making kilns to Nepal to Danish suburbs, the site’s one image a day is consistently beautiful, weird and illuminating of a larger story of how the Earth came to look this way. Here are some of Daily Overview’s greatest hits. More » ...
Video : If you’re a cinema fan, you may know part of this story, but, if you aren’t, this video is a throughout summary of how American westerns influenced the samurais of Akira Kurosawa — and how the samurais of Akira Kurosawa influenced that galactic western known as Star Wars. More » ...
Video : I don’t know what Bondibots are (I don’t speak French), I don’t know what they’re supposed to be doing when not fighting their way across the galaxy, playing soccer or jamming on gigantic guitars — driving old people around maybe? — and I really don’t know what the hell is going on in this video. All I do know is that it’s way better than the last Transformers flick. More » ...
Twentieth century science was particularly obsessed with finding new ways to approach love — or in some cases, lust. During the 1920s, technology magazines insisted that you’d be able to find the perfect partner through a series of highly scientific tests. By the 1950s, mechanical computers and love-automats were the future of finding Mr or Mrs Right. More » ...
This is just a stone. Not a photo of a stone with a Hubble Space Telescope image pasted over it. Not a hologram made inside some piece of glass. Not a portal to another dimension. Just a stone. It’s like some spacetime wizard captured a piece of the universe and trapped it inside. More » ...
Not content with a 260,000 square metre flying saucer , Apple is apparently taking over a seven-building campus in the US city of Sunnyvale too. The San Jose Mercury News claims that Apple has agreed to lease a seven-building campus in Sunnyvale which can house 1450 workers. More » ...
NASA and the University of Zurich have announced the discovery of what are believed to be the darkest spots in the galaxy outside of a black hole’s event horizon. These shadows, formed by clumps of extremely dense gas clouds, were first observed using the Spitzer Space Telescope. More » ...
If you don’t walk with confidence, you’ll never cross the street. One bit of hesitation and you’re going to cause a massive scooter crash. You have to treat your body like a car. Or at least a moped. Or at least a helmet. If you don’t hit them, they won’t hit you. Or something like that. More » ...
France’s national railway operator, SNCF, recently ordered 2000 new trains at a cost of more than $US20 billion. Now, it’s found out that they’re too big for many of the stations they’re supposed to pass through. And this isn’t the kind of order you can return. More » ...
Ebay has asked all users to change their passwords due to a massive cyberattack that hit the encrypted password database. The company says that no financial data that was compromised, and there’s no evidence of unauthorised user activity. More » ...
This video features a suitcase full of disc drives playing the theme tune to Back to the Future , all orchestrated by a tiny Raspberry Pi computer. The setup is so lightweight in terms of energy use that it runs on batteries — ideal for public performances and busking. More » ...
As far as large corporations go, IKEA genuinely strives to be as environmentally responsible as it can. It stopped selling incandescent bulbs in its stores ages ago, there’s not a plastic bag to be found, it’s wholeheartedly embraced solar power for its buildings and many products, and soon it will be officially selling an IKEA-branded electric bike. More » ...
A little more than a month after Nest announced it would halt the sale of its Protect smoke and CO alarm , the company has announced the official recall of every alarm sold so far. A report filed on the US Consumer Product Safety Commission website announced the recall. More » ...
Video : This video released today shows J.J. Abrams — director of Star Wars Episode VII — on the set in Abu Dhabi where he has just announced a competition in unison with UNICEF. The prize is only the chance to travel to London and appear in the new film! More » ...
Buying a 3D printer for your home is an expensive (and confusing) undertaking. If you don’t want to drop a couple of grand on a new computer-controlled magical plastic extruder, you’ve got another choice: Sydney now has a second 3D printing studio, out in Parramatta. More » ...
It’s almost as if Segway decided to make its own non-balancing Segway knock-off , but there are actually strategic reasons for adding that third wheel, the company claims. Because the SE-3 Patroller isn’t always self-balancing and making constant minute adjustments, it can maximise its range with its rechargeable and swappable Li-ion batteries. And, it’s much easier for police officers or security...
They’re coming. Hoardes of them. You can hear them everywhere: behind you, in front and off to the sides. The undead. They want your flesh. A quick check of your pistol reveals that you don’t have enough for the job ahead, and your back is up against the wall. Time to fight. All of a sudden, your eyes refocus as the Oculus Rift unit is lifted from in front of your eyes, and you realise that you’re...
There’s been an explosion in the number of colourised photos lately. People find old black-and-white photos online and meticulously add colour to give us a new perspective on history. But one colorised image recently caught my eye after it was tweeted by the notoriously inaccurate HistoryInPics. It’s a stunningly colourful view of the Golden Gate Bridge in 1940, but the photo is a lie. More »...
Video: Style. Design. Fashion. Appeal. These are the catchwords that every manufacturer wants associated with their product. From a tablet right down to the case that will protect it. An insane amount of effort actually goes into just photographing stock art for your website when developing an iPad case, as the folks from TwelveSouth revealed this week. It’s like a fashion shoot first and a product...