If you just watched G.I. Joe, you must remember the robotic firefly, now German technology firm Festo release their latest robotic marvel - BioniCopter. I’m not sure which field they wanna use, but at least I don’t wanna see them in the nature.
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Swiss designer and artist Paul Grundbacher makes these incredible hand-cranked marble machines. See more in Woodgears.
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It’s not magic, it’s science. Through a 24hz sine wave, the falling water becomes a stream of water similar some wave looks. I searched lots of comments online, someone said actually human’s eye can’t catch these effect, but camera has frame rate. If you like it, you can see more on Brusspup’s page in You Tube.
This video is about 15,000 volts of electricity connected cables carrying to a large plank of wood. Pratt student Melanie Hoff documented the results.
15,000 Volts from Melanie Hoff on Vimeo.
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This is the world’s first 3D pen – 3Doodler, you can draw in three dimensions in real time. The 3Doodler was designed by WobbleWorks, and they recently launched a campaign to sell it on Kickstarter.
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Alan Friedman uses special filters attached to his camera, and captures these details of the Sun’s roiling surface. If you like his works, you can view extremely high-resolution on his Tumblr or you can pick up some prints over on Photo-Eye also.
Here is Friedman’s recently video on TEDx.
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( photo by Robert R Gigliotti )
The Lucky thing is nobody was injured. Nearly 200 firefighters battled the blaze in Chicago’s Bridgeport neighborhood. Temperatures were very low that water sprayed on the building froze almost instantly during the fire.
Photographers Robert R. Gigliotti, David Schalliol, and Darek Szupina.
See much more on the Chicago Tribune.
( photo by David Schalliol )
( photo by David Schalliol )
( photo by David Schalliol )
( photo by David Schalliol )
( photo by David Schalliol )
( photo by Robert R Gigliotti )
( photo by Robert R Gigliotti )
( photo by Darek Szupina )
( photo by Darek Szupina )
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Artist Jonty Hurwitz born in Johannesburg in 1969, now lives and works in London. He recently use over a billion computer calculations considering how to materialize his warped ideas. Hurwitz is a somewhat of renaissance man, he founed Wonga that is a micro-loan website in 2007. Now, his artwork will display at the Kinetica art show in London in February. You also can see more his artwork on his website, Facebook, Saatchi profile, and Youtube.
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Italian artist Giuseppe Randazzo Uses computer algorithms created these nice and complex 3D patterns of stone. The process’s code is a C++ console application that outputs an obj 3D image. Awesome!
Giuseppe Randazzo’s website
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