Interactive LED wall
This interactive LED display can be found at La Vitrine (The Window), a arts and culture venue in Montreal. Developed by Moment Factory, and created by Photonic Dreams, the wall was created for a...
View ArticleCameras that can see through walls (deliberately misleading post title)
You can hook up two cameras and a a computer to let one camera see “through” walls by hithchiking on the other camera’s perspective. This New Scientist video shows it off, and theorizes that someday —...
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A concept printer I can get behind
Normally, design posts are Grant’s bailiwick, but when I came across this post regarding a concept printer that uses a normal pencil and eraser instead of print cartridges, I had to say something....
View ArticleIf this is augmented reality, I’m scared
“Augmented reality” is one of those concepts that floats around on the periphery of discussions about the future of technology. If the phrase is new to you, or you’ve been too embarrassed to admit you...
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Photo album that looks like an SD card
Because I work in a photo lab, I see that digital photo frames are all the rage. However, it also seems that the digital frames are being bought for older generations who have no idea how to use it;...
View ArticleRegarding my jet-pack fetish
I have blogged about my desire to own a jet pack in the past. That pack, as cool as it may be, had some significant drawbacks. First and foremost, it was powered by water which causes some difficulty...
View ArticleLet’s drop a helicopter and see what happens
Every vehicle on the road today has been subjected to a battery of safety tests, including being smashed into walls with the ubiquitous crash-test dummies loaded inside. But who is keeping our...
View ArticleA cat that embraces technology
I don’t know why, but when cats are entertained by something on a computer, or in this case an iPad, it is just so funny. (via TDW)
View ArticleFinally, my hoverboard!
It is a common lament around the Absurd Intellectual offices that the hoverboard dreams of our youth have, to date, gone unrealized. Unfairly, I might add. There is all sorts of amazing...
View ArticleThe amazing flight of the blue balloon
Dyson is known for its weird tornado-powered vacuum cleaners, but they’ve recently come out with bladeless fans — fans that actually produce an eerie vortex of air from an empty ring. It’s like voodoo....
View ArticleA camera that does away with the photographer
If you thought that being an artist would protect you from having a computer do your work, think again: Yes, that’s right — eschewing the view screen, a computer in this point-and-shoot camera...
View ArticleCurvy escalator looks like the future
The only reason that escalators can’t curve is because the steps are square. Round ‘em off, and those curves can happen. Yes, please! I guess the problem is that the handrails would either move at...
View ArticleI am too young to remember Linotype, but I will remember to see this film
When I started learned about journalism and newspapers and all the associated ephemera that comes with it, we were still doing paste-up layout, but the Linotype process was still in enough memories...
View ArticleMerry Christmas from the iBand
With less than two weeks before Christmas, I guess I can begin to uncouple myself from the deeply ingrained grinchiness and provide you with some Holiday cheer. North Point Community Church has an...
View ArticleSecond-graders try to explain vintage tech
It’s in French, but there are enough subtitles that even those of you who didn’t take core French classes in elementary school can follow along with the humour. As Geekosystem noted, they’re often...
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