May 2009
7 posts
Ultra-futuristic concept vehicles from Japan →
This is mostly for @the_patches. I can’t imagine American car companies seriously producing these ideas, as they all seem seriously influenced by a culture that is saturated in ideas like Mecha.
“But as a proof-of-concept, it was a ringing success. There is a market...”
– Locus Online Perspectives: Extreme Geek
Long exposure shows Roomba cleaning path →
Signaltheorist … shut off all of the lights in his room for 30 minutes and captured a long exposure of the path that the ROomba makes …
WatchI love Zoe Keating. She makes what is quite possibly the best programming music I’ve ever listened too. The video above shows precisely how she lays down the various tracks and loops she uses to create a given song. It makes hearing it all the more impressive.
(Via: Wired)
Oberon UI →
Lukas Mathis:
Even though Oberon is a graphical, mouse-driven user interface, it is also very much text-based. It eschews icons in favour of words:
To launch applications or execute commands, you first type them somewhere (anywhere, it doesn’t matter), and then middle-click them:
This may seem weird at first, but is actually extremely cool because it allows for some neat...
