Technology
Transcendent Man
The Singularity: an indeterminate post-human future. Hooey, or prophecy? Perhaps the new movie Transcendent Man debuting at the upcoming Tribeca Film Festival, will explain it all for us.
Posted By: Paul - Wed May 06, 2009 -
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Category: Movies, Documentaries, Technology, Computers, Yesterday’s Tomorrows
Tilt Shift Photography
Alex's post today of tiny man with big cat brings up the topic of Tilt Shift Miniature Faking, by which odd camera angles can render real-world scenes toylike. (And didn't the LORD OF THE RINGS films use a similar technique to turn normal-sized actors into hobbits?)
Posted By: Paul - Wed Apr 29, 2009 -
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Category: Photography and Photographers, Technology, Surrealism
Why Tinfoil Hats Don’t Work
You might have seen the newspaper reports last fall about this experiment. Here's how it was done.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Mar 27, 2009 -
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Category: Eccentrics, Science, Experiments, Psychology, Technology
Donald Duck in THE PLASTICS INVENTOR
So it's Donald Duck who's responsible for a world choking in plastic gimcracks!
Posted By: Paul - Sun Mar 15, 2009 -
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Category: Technology, Cartoons, Documentaries, 1940s
The Electric Hotel
Electricity can do anything!NOTE: When I first posted this on Sunday morning, the link was bad. My apologies!
Try it now!
Posted By: Paul - Sun Mar 01, 2009 -
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Category: Movies, Technology, 1900s
Hands-Free Solution
A few weeks ago I posted about the Cell Mate hands-free device for cell phones. I suggested that a rubber band would be more practical. But this guy clearly has the best hands-free solution.
(via gizmodo)
Posted By: Alex - Wed Feb 25, 2009 -
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Category: Technology
Russian Ark
What's so weird about the film titled RUSSIAN ARK? It's 90-some minutes long--and shot entirely in one continuous take. The camera--a special digital one--was turned on and never turned off for the duration of the shoot. They had to try four times before they suceeded.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Feb 13, 2009 -
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Category: Movies, Technology, Russia
The Dionne Quintuplets
Today, we have the "Octo-mom."
Posted By: Paul - Sat Feb 07, 2009 -
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Category: Babies, Body Modifications, Celebrities, Drugs, Fads, Family, Human Marvels, Obsessions, Pop Culture, Technology, 1930s
The Hopkins Beast
Back in the early 1960s, researchers at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab created one of the first autonomous robots. They called it "The Beast." From Popular Science, Sep 1964:The picture of "The Beast" comes from frc.ri.cmu.edu.
Posted By: Alex - Mon Dec 22, 2008 -
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Category: Robots, Technology
Soviet Space Stamps
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Click on the image twice, to get them really big!
Posted By: Paul - Thu Dec 11, 2008 -
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Category: Art, Communications, Postal Services, Stamps, Futurism, Patriotism, Technology, Space Travel, 1960s, Russia, Yesterday’s Tomorrows
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