Monthly Archives: August 2006

Trimersion 3D Display

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Finally a new 3D VR display – it’s taken its time!
This unit stops ambient light from coming in entirely, sports a lightweight design and a tracker that works as a mouse, comes with a gun, allowing you to use it seamlessly in most FPS games. I think it’ll look great in the Flight Sim world as well, as long as there’s view with your mouse option too. Good reviews, but no figures (eg. resolution, weight, etc.). Price is not too bad at $329,-

Time fountain and other creations

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This time fountain uses strobe lighting to show water droplets falling. You can interact with the drops and because you can alter the strobing frequency, you can seem to slow down time and even make time go backwards.
The video makes things clearer 🙂 you can find that here

Instructions on how to make the time fountain yourself here

There are plenty of other creations on the site. Another one that got my attention was the walluminate – a wallet with LEDs that come on when you open the wallet.

The plant reaction is a wonderful contraption as well.

One of the other things I found was the Make My Day DVD which apparently is a DVD set up like a Steve Jackson book – ie. you get to choose what the hero does periodically, allowing up to 13 different endings to the film. At $16,- it’s a great deal!

Cool site to browse around on.

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No, RIAA, you CAN’T prove it was me!

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Well done, Tammie Marson fought the giants and won!
She claims that allthough there were illegal files on her computer that had been downloaded over her internet connection, there was simply no way that they could prove it was her who had downloaded the stuff. Anyone else of the hundreds of cheerleaders that came into her house on a daily basis could have done it. Quite so – settlement out of court.

Extreme Ironing

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Everything has to be extreme nowadays, even ironing. The idea is simple – take your shirt and ironing board to extreme locations and… press your shirt. These people are ironing whilst skydiving, whilst scubadiving, in gondola’s, and any place you can think of. There’s a huge gallery of submitted pictures, proving that there are actually people who do this kind of shit!

Not only do they do this, they’ve been doing it for years, and have popular photo competitions as well…

Earthship

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These structures are built with fully recycled materials and make you almost totally independant from the city in that you don’t need heating, sewage or other facilities. The walls are made of filled tyres creating the brickwork. As each area where the earthship is placed is unique, so is the design and as the materials are recycled and cheap, you have a custom built design to suit your needs at a fraction of the price of a ‘normal’ house. Sounds like an ecologically sound and attractive idea. Am I turning into a tree hugger?

Dimensions

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Dimensions are weird things. There are a whole load more of them than the 3 (length, height and depth) most people are used to, such as dimension number 4 (time) and 0 (the dot infinity).

This page shows in an easy manner how we can understand 10 dimensions. It does however end with the contention that there are only 10 dimensions, but Stephen Hawking says there are 11, so we might not be getting the whole story…

If you want another look at how you could understand more dimensional objects through looking at the shadows they cast as they drop through a world, folding hypercubes are a really good way to look at objects. This page has good jpg movies. (BTW it’s also useful to know that flatlanders are people who live in a 2D world)