A new project combining the collective talents of four French design studios literally allows you to see sound in a whole different light. Murmur is a device that allows passers-by to interact with an LED light wall, turning their voice into visible sound waves. Building a “luminous bridge between the physical and virtual worlds,” it transfers sound waves towards the wall using an LED strip, displaying the movement of … Read More → "Watch ‘Murmur’ project a human voice onto a beautiful digital canvas (video)"

Data from NASA’s Swift satellite has been used to create the highest-ever resolution images of our two nearest galaxies, the Magellanic Clouds. The detailed ultraviolet light surveys measure 160 and 55 megapixels, and cumulatively show some 1.25 million ultraviolet sources.

The two images show ultraviolet light ranging from 1,600 to 3,300 angstroms, a range of light that is largely blocked by the Earth’s atmosphere. The two images were taken using the Swift satellite’ … Read More → "NASA’s Swift satellite reveals neighboring galaxies in unprecedented ultraviolet detail"

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Scotland-based laser physicist-turned-artist and web developer Tom Beddard, aka subBlue, has produced a number of intriguing geometric forms he refers to as Fabergé Fractals. Like an ornate Fabergé egg, Beddard’s creations boast brilliant and intricate design patterns. The English artist uses a formulaic method to create his digitally rendered three-dimensional models.
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For the last month or so photographer Yume Cyan has been shooting some magical long exposure photographs of fireflies in a forested area around Nagoya City, Japan. By keeping the camera’s shutter open at a low aperture Cyan captures every bioluminescent flash of each insect resulting in dotted light trails that criss-cross the frame.
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Web developer Will Smidlein managed to bypass the six-second upload limit on Vine today, inserting the entirety of Rick Astley’s immortal “Never Gonna Give You Up” into a post that was ultimately taken down by Twitter. “I think I broke Vine,” Smidlein tweeted, along with the full embed of the song. He previously tweeted that Twitter engineers had asked him to take the post down.
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If you are currently “suffering” at some uninspiring desk job with what you consider to be long hours and pitiful pay, this chart should put your situation into perspective—and you will probably feel better about your lot after reading it. 

History quarterly magazine has created this interesting matrix that highlights some of the worst jobs in history—ranked by how difficult, disgusting, treacherous and tedious each job is, the featured jobs were undertaken at some point in a time period that stretches from the Roman Empire era to 2010.< … Read More → "The worst jobs in history"

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