HAL 9000 Gets Its Own Screensaver, Russian Hardware Prints You
There's a load of great tech news happening out there every day, and, unfortunately, we just can't cover it all. Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web.
- Give your computer (Macs only) that Kubrick touch with the HAL 9000 screensaver, though we don't know why you would. [From: HAL 9000 Screensaver]
- BoingBoing highlights Lenpolygrafmash, a Russian company that creates fascinatingly rugged printers, scanners and USB gadgets. [From: BoingBoing]
- Neatorama links to one of photography's longest exposures (34 months). Taken by Michael Wesely, it captures the renovation of the Museum of Modern Art. [From: Neatorama]
- Sound editor Richard King breaks down the sound design of several scenes from Christopher Nolan's 'Inception.' [From: Vimeo]
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HAL 9000 Gets Its Own Screensaver, Russian Hardware Prints You originally appeared on Switched on Thu, 29 Jul 2010 18:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Flaming Lips’ Wayne Coyne Reveals His ‘Strange, Futuristic Bathroom’
Many of us here at Switched do some of our best thinking in the bathroom. But if our bathrooms looked anything like the Flaming Lips' magical mystery tour of a powder room, we can't even fathom the kinds of posts we'd be penning.
DesignMilk has photos of mastermind Wayne Coyne's newly renovated bathroom in his Oklahoma City home, and, as you can see, it's breathtakingly trippy. The loo, designed by FitzSimmons Architects, looks like something straight out of the 'Planet Earth' cave episode -- if only Stanley Kubrick had directed 'Planet Earth.' Lead singer and personal hero Wayne Coyne describes it as his "strange, futuristic bathroom" that he enters every morning from his "strange, artistic bedroom." As he says during a guided tour of the space, "Now, you are entering into the drug-damaged, artist element of our home." (The Flaming Lips and drugs? Get outta town!) Yet, despite his kookiness, Coyne is delightfully reminiscent of our wacky dads.
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Flaming Lips' Wayne Coyne Reveals His 'Strange, Futuristic Bathroom' originally appeared on Switched on Wed, 17 Feb 2010 06:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.