If you’ve ever fantasized about living in a real-life Lego home, your dream could finally come true.
French architecture firm Multipod Studio recently unveiled a prototype for the PopUp House, a customizable home made from stackable blocks. It can be designed, ordered, and built in about a month.
Check out the design for the first homes, located in the pine valleys of Southern France.
And you thought building Ikea furniture was daunting.
This is one day’s observations from Himawari-8, a Japanese weather satellite, animated in a loop. It shows the western Pacific, Australia, and parts of Asia, Antarctica, and Alaska as they looked on one day in mid-2015. It covers 24 hours in 12 seconds – a time lapse factor of 7,200×.
To see this spectacular video in super-high resolution, go to: Glittering Blue
Learn more at: About Glittering Blue
The enigmatic Canon 1 à 2 from J. S. Bachs Musical Offering (1747), The manuscript depicts a single musical sequence that is to be played front to back and back to front.
Video by Jos Leys (http://www.josleys.com) and Xantox (http://strangepaths.com/en/)
Here’s a totally fake Paris apartment, rendered with Unreal Engine 4. We’ve sure come a long way since Myst.
Verka Serduchka – Dancing Lasha Tumbai (Ukraine) 2007 Eurovision (2nd Place Winner)
Years ago when I first heard that Apple was developing a tablet I had dreams of drawing directly on the screen. I already had a Wacom Cintiq but it was a monster: the screen was dim and the cables and boxes coming out the thing made it cumbersome and ugly.
Too bad Apple didn’t share my dream. I already had a Macbook Air, so why exactly would I need a tablet too?
Now there is Paper, the best reason I’ve seen to actually buy an iPad.
New York to Los Angeles in 45 minutes.
Washington DC to Beijing in 2 hours.
350mph local, up to 4000mph international.
More info at: http://et3.com/
From io9:
Here’s what Pangea looks like mapped with modern political borders
from io9: http://io9.com/heres-what-pangea-looks-like-mapped-with-modern-politi-509812695
Zoom Zoom.
link: http://imgur.com/p7gVh
