technology
Human Flight
It seems humans can almost fly these days.
The Hubble Ultra Deep Field in 3D
This was good, in part because the voice over and music were bearable.
Nissan Leaf
As I said I arent much into technology, Im more a hedonist and as such aesthetics are important to me, so I welcome the car that “will cost less to operate than a gasoline-powered car, both in energy and maintenance, as there are fewer moving parts”, and not release byproducts, such as exhaust and noise. [...]
Hieronymus Bosch – The Garden of Earthly Delights
I hadnt realized but google earth has some art galleries included, Im not sure how many but the Prado in Madrid is one, and the highlight there, for me anyway, is Hieronymus Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights. You can zoom right in to these paintings to see more then you would see in the gallery. [...]
The Oil Age is Over
There was a time when I was into this sort of thing, until I had an erotic dream involving a motorbike (the end of the video with the dog is almost as disturbing now that Ive noticed it). Now I have little interest in technology in general. The reason I posted this tho, is that [...]
Photosynth
Blaise Aguera y Arcas talks about Photosynth, software that could transform the way we look at digital images. Using still photos culled from the Web, Photosynth builds recreate forms and lets us navigate them. I imagine that google earth will be working on this now, but as well as that it can recreate anything if [...]
