Google Gravity Chrome Experiment Now Live
Google Gravity by Hi-ReS is a fun Chrome experiment that lets you play around with the search engine page's elements. According to the developer, "type 'google gravity' then click 'I'm Feeling Lucky' -- this should come up." You may have heard or seen of this project before, but now the page is actually live for you to experiment with. Video demonstration after the break.
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Google Gravity Chrome Experiment Now Live
Google Gravity Chrome Experiment Now Live
Google Gravity by Hi-ReS is a fun Chrome experiment that lets you play around with the search engine page's elements. According to the developer, "type 'google gravity' then click 'I'm Feeling Lucky' -- this should come up." You may have heard or seen of this project before, but now the page is actually live for you to experiment with. Video demonstration after the break.
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Google Gravity Chrome Experiment Now Live
Holstee’s Recycled Wallet: Green & Great
I’ve written about plenty of green things in the past, but never a green wallet. That ends today! It’s called the Holstee wallet, and it’s made entirely out of recycled material from Delhi, India. Pretty neat, I think you’ll agree.
It’s primarily made of recycled newspaper and plastic bags, again, from Delhi, India.
The people who actually sew the wallet together are paid a “fair wage,” and also get subsidized healthcare for their entire family. That’s pretty huge.
$25 for the wallet, and the feeling of actually having helped a few people out as well as the environment in the process.
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How To Tell If Your Significant Other Is A Robot [Robots]
Feeling unloved, but getting plenty of loving? This comic could be interpreted to suggest that such a situation may indicate that your significant other is a robot. [SMBC] More
“For Those Who See” uses smoke rings to make a lo-fi 3D display
This is pretty cool, although I think calling it a “display” is stretching the definition a bit. It can display patterns and some basic shapes (I saw a heart in there somewhere) but somehow I get the feeling this isn’t the kind of technology you end up having in the living room. Still very, very cool to watch. A little creative lighting could even give it color.
More info about the installation at the UdK-Berlin site (it was created by one Daniel Shulz for Berlin’s DMY Design Festival). He ought to collaborate with Obscura Digital.
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Apple’s Small Problem: iOS 4 And iPhone 4 One-Up The iPad
The tech world is buzzing about iOS 4, the latest version of the iPhone operating system that Apple released today. And rightly so -- it's an improvement over the previous version in every way. In fact, once you've been using it for a while, it's hard to go back to using iPhone OS 3.x. And there's an unfortunate casualty there: the iPad.
I've been using developer builds of iOS 4 (then called iPhone OS 4) for weeks now. I've grown very used to using things such as the new app switcher and folders. In fact, I've grown so used to using them that when I switch back over to the iPad now (running iPhone OS 3.2), I can't help but feel that it in some ways seems antiquated. Yes, I know that's ridiculous for a device that's not even three months old yet. But the feeling lingers.
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Grbl, an Arduino-based g-code interpreter
I'm knee deep in software development for a couple of motion control projects, and have had the feeling that I've been re-inventing the wheel for a while. Well, I wish I would have found grbl sooner. It appears to be a mostly complete implementation of the g-code standard, written to run on an Atmega328-based Arduino.
Which, if you prefer English, means that it is a program that runs on everyone's favorite easy-to-use microcontroller, that can precisely control up to 3 stepper motors at a time, using a standard protocol that most computer automated manufacturing programs can export. So, you can use it to control a low-cost milling machine, 3d printer, or perhaps biological specimen observation station. Cool! [thanks, Marty!]
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Low-power monitor from 3M is driven and powered by USB 3.0
The number of display interfaces has always baffled me. VGA, DVI, HDMI, DisplayPort… aren’t we just passing 1s and 0s over a cable? Admittedly, back in the day, there were analog considerations to be made, but in these times of high-speed interfaces, why can’t we just send the video signal over USB?
Well, there are already some USB-based solutions, but they’re far from popular. And yeah, there are actual considerations like latency and throughput, but with really high-performance stuff like Light Peak and USB 3.0 soon to become commonplace, I get the feeling designated display interfaces will soon be a thing of the past.
3M’s taking a step in the right direction with this monitor, which not only gets its video signal over USB 3.0, but is also powered by it. Admittedly, it takes up two ports, but hell, I just reviewed a hard drive like that. A whole 18.5″ monitor just via USB? Not bad at all.
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Gigabyte busts out M1125 netvertible ahead of Computex
Gigabyte's just let its Computex 'cat' out of the bag, and while most of it is stuff we've already seen plenty of, there was one new addition. The 11.6-inch M1125 netvertible boasts a high res 1,366 x 768 display, an Intel Calpella chip, USB 3.0 and an optical disc drive. This little guy also has a new fangled docking station and a full sized keyboard to boot. We don't have anything resembling full specs yet, nor do we have pricing or availability information -- though we get the feeling we'll be seeing plenty more of this one in the week to come. Full press release follows.
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Mercedes-Benz Hexawheel concept is the 4×4 you never knew you needed
It ain't the first Mercedes-Benz concept to dazzle us, and we get the feeling it's far from being the last. Dreamed up by designer Siyamak Rouhi Dehkordi, the Hexawheel is doing its darnedest to bring the gas guzzler back, and while we'd never turn down a solid deal on our own G-Wagon, there's something mighty novel about this ride. Boasting an iconic M-B design, this here creature deviates drastically from the typical road warrior, utilizing six wheels on an articulated chassis with a flexible drivetrain. All told, it'd measure some 16 feet if ushered into production, and it's quite possibly the best beach vehicle next to the dune buggy. There's no word on what kind of powerplant this thing would support, but we're guessing something involving fuel cells would be appropriate. Give those links below a visit if you're in the mood for more images.
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